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Florida School Librarian at Center of SARS ScareA Fort Lauderdale school librarian, who initially decided to stay home for 10 days when nearly a dozen parents threatened to keep their children home if she returned to work after a three-week trip to China, changed her mind one day into the self-imposed quarantine.Gayle Grossman, 53, librarian at Bayview Elementary School, decided that she didn't want to use her employee sick days when she was not sick. “I don't feel like hiding,” Grossman said in the April 30 Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel. “The disease is contagious. It's being contained, and I don't have it.” The Broward County Teachers Union intervened and found Grossman a temporary administrative position with the school district. “We're dealing with a person who cares immensely about her students and their parents, and we're really trying to do what's best for her in this instance, because she deserves it,” John Ristow, union spokesman, told Miami's WTVJ-TV April 30. Grossman said she is now worried about how students and parents will react when she returns to school on May 7. “I don't want people to cringe when they see me, that's a frightening thought,” she told reporters. “I'm the same old Miss Grossman that loves the children and loves to tell stories, and I want to get back to my job.” There have been 52 probable SARS cases in the United States, including three in Florida, but no deaths as of May 1. Posted May 5, 2003. |
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