Anne Arundel - NO special ed teachers will return

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Special ed teachers picked careers dedicated to helping others. For anyone to suggest that they don't care about the kids because they want to keep themselves and their loved ones safe during a pandemic, is just ridiculous. For anyone questioning their dedication, I'd ask, what is your job?

It seems like the general assumption from this thread is that the union and/or peer pressure kept these teachers from returning, rather than all the teachers deciding for themselves that they wouldn't return.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Special ed teachers picked careers dedicated to helping others. For anyone to suggest that they don't care about the kids because they want to keep themselves and their loved ones safe during a pandemic, is just ridiculous. For anyone questioning their dedication, I'd ask, what is your job?

+1, the same folks complaining are the ones that don't want to deal with their kids every day and support them so they'd rather others put their health and safety at risk but are not willing to step up and teach or be aides or even work with their own kids.

Read the message boards about the kids with "sensory" issues (not asd or even diagnosis) who cannot wear masks. They put staff at a much higher risk depending on the families lifestyle choices. But, the same ones demanding schools opening generally have no issues socializing, eating out and more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Special ed teachers picked careers dedicated to helping others. For anyone to suggest that they don't care about the kids because they want to keep themselves and their loved ones safe during a pandemic, is just ridiculous. For anyone questioning their dedication, I'd ask, what is your job?

+1, the same folks complaining are the ones that don't want to deal with their kids every day and support them so they'd rather others put their health and safety at risk but are not willing to step up and teach or be aides or even work with their own kids.

Read the message boards about the kids with "sensory" issues (not asd or even diagnosis) who cannot wear masks. They put staff at a much higher risk depending on the families lifestyle choices. But, the same ones demanding schools opening generally have no issues socializing, eating out and more.

You're seriously going to suggest that some kids don't have sensory or developmental issues that make it effectively impossible for parents and other caregivers to get them to consistently wear masks?

Must be nice.

[Anonymous]

Yay! PROGRESS!

Not sure what happened, but 49 families and 53 staff are going back to the three special schools this week.

And over 300 kids and 14 teachers returning to the CAT school!

https://www.capitalgazette.com/education/ac-cn-reopening-in-person-instruction-20200928-vmvzh543dravblckxn6bil5uny-story.html

[Anonymous]

Am I reading it wrong? It's not that they refused to return, its that none of them "signed up" to return?

That's a subtle but important difference. If they refuse to return after being ordered to, then the conversation changes.

But no volunteers doesn't mean they refuse to return