Just days before students in a Suffolk district head back to class, its teachers are sounding the alarm.

Dozens of educators rallied in Bohemia Tuesday, claiming Connetquot schools are not ready to reopen. To make their messages clear, they participated in a car parade protest, driving by the district's administration office.

Teachers say the district is not prepared to welcome back students Thursday, and they're putting the blame on the superintendent and school board.

Tony Felicio, president of the Connetquot Teachers Associations, represents 640 teachers. He says the high school hasn't been disinfected, cameras for remote cameras aren't in place and teachers haven't received adequate training to hold classes amid the pandemic.

"The expectations are up here. It's a plane being built in the air and it's doomed for disaster," says Felicio.

Diane Boyle, who has been an elementary school teacher for 22 years, says teachers were part of the reopening planning process earlier this year. But she says the superintendent abruptly cut them out of discussions in early August.

"The superintendent did not attend one minute of any of those meetings and at the end when we got some good plans in place she dismissed them out of hand without coming in to talk to us about it," says Boyle.

The district denied the teachers' allegations and called its back-to-school plan educationally sound. A district spokesperson issued a statement, reading in part:

"We have procured shipments of proper PPE for our students and staff, have redesigned our classrooms in accordance with physical distancing guidelines, are prepared to adhere to a new and thorough cleaning plan to disinfect classrooms and shared spaces."

But teachers say that's not what's happening in the classroom, and it's the students who'll suffer.

"The kids are not going to get the education that our teachers want to provide to them," says Felicio.