https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2020/9/8/21428208/nyc-teacher-classroom-open. Nate, a high school teacher who requested only his first name be used in order to speak freely about his south Brooklyn school, saw several staffers working in their classrooms together had removed their masks during their 8:30 a.m. Zoom faculty meeting. “To me it was extremely disappointing, and the kids will follow the example if there is a strict culture,” he said. “If teachers are flagrant with it, kids are definitely going to be.”
Will be ironic if it turns out that teachers are the ones infecting each other - not kids.
Disappointing, but not all that surprising. NYC employs 75,000 teachers and they're not a monolith. Individuals within that group will have different levels of risk-aversion. Hopefully this article prompts administrators to remind their staff of the importance of setting a good example.