APS- teachers MIA in APS middle school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am not sure in what universe people are celebrating fully vaccinated teachers staying home and abandoning children at school when the data shows the kids have fallen so behind. In my job, if l said this to my employer that l demand to work from home despite being vaccinated, then l would be fired.

I’m not sure what universe you’re living in. That’s not what is happening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am not sure in what universe people are celebrating fully vaccinated teachers staying home and abandoning children at school when the data shows the kids have fallen so behind. In my job, if l said this to my employer that l demand to work from home despite being vaccinated, then l would be fired.

I’m not sure what universe you’re living in. That’s not what is happening.

+1

Teacher-hater losers are living in a demented fantasy world.

[Anonymous]

Since in-person school this year is just distance learning taking place in the classroom two times a week, I fail to see how it makes a difference.



Then maybe you should pay more attention. The teachers will be in 4 days a week, not two. They will need to meet the needs of two groups of students in two different places, and manage the learning of students at home while making sure in-school students remain distant with masks on. They will need to clean desks in between classes (they have three minutes to do this between MS classes). They will need to sign students in and out for bathroom breaks. The list goes on and on.



*Students* will be there twice a week. Regardless of where teachers and students are physically located, teachers will have to manage student learning distanced from the students. Other teachers and staff supervise students to ensure they remain distanced, clean between classes, and do the bathroom stuff.

Honestly I’m not sure where you get the audacity to say I’m the one who needs to pay more attention.

And I'm not sure why you have such an inflated opinion of yourself. For one thing, the bolded information you posted above is wrong. And everyone knows that kids are only going back two days a week. At the point where you posted in the thread, the discussion was about TEACHERS, not students. You posted that you didn't see how seeing students two days a week would make a difference to the teachers' workload. Read over the thread again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am not sure in what universe people are celebrating fully vaccinated teachers staying home and abandoning children at school when the data shows the kids have fallen so behind. In my job, if l said this to my employer that l demand to work from home despite being vaccinated, then l would be fired.

Abandoning children at school Drama queen, get a grip. The kids are not abandoned at school. How do I know? I work there. The kids are literally just fine. Nobody is sitting in the hallway crying “why has mistress abandoned us here! Cruel fate, she is relaxing at home while I wither here without her.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am not sure in what universe people are celebrating fully vaccinated teachers staying home and abandoning children at school when the data shows the kids have fallen so behind. In my job, if l said this to my employer that l demand to work from home despite being vaccinated, then l would be fired.

I’m not sure what universe you’re living in. That’s not what is happening.

+1 What’s happening is teachers are taking unpaid leave. In some cases no sub can be found so the principals are letting them stay virtual instead of having a class without a teacher. I know that many people assumed there would be unemployed people lining up to take teacher’s jobs but it didn’t play out like that.

[Anonymous]

This stuff doesn’t happen in private schools. The reason is parents would not tolerate it for 1 second. Here, the public school parents are letting the children go to school to be taught by monitors and then justifying this craziness on the boards. When can we all just put the students first for a change? Why can’t everyone just rise to the occasion and get our students on track? It should be outrageous to people that vaccinated teachers are taking leave in the middle of the school year just to avoid in person teaching.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This stuff doesn’t happen in private schools. The reason is parents would not tolerate it for 1 second. Here, the public school parents are letting the children go to school to be taught by monitors and then justifying this craziness on the boards. When can we all just put the students first for a change? Why can’t everyone just rise to the occasion and get our students on track? It should be outrageous to people that vaccinated teachers are taking leave in the middle of the school year just to avoid in person teaching.

Clearly it is outrageous to some, others see that there are legitimate reasons why someone might need to take leave at this time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This stuff doesn’t happen in private schools. The reason is parents would not tolerate it for 1 second. Here, the public school parents are letting the children go to school to be taught by monitors and then justifying this craziness on the boards. When can we all just put the students first for a change? Why can’t everyone just rise to the occasion and get our students on track? It should be outrageous to people that vaccinated teachers are taking leave in the middle of the school year just to avoid in person teaching.

I am so tired of fools who still can’t tell the difference between a private for profit entity like a private school and a public school SYSTEM

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This stuff doesn’t happen in private schools. The reason is parents would not tolerate it for 1 second. Here, the public school parents are letting the children go to school to be taught by monitors and then justifying this craziness on the boards. When can we all just put the students first for a change? Why can’t everyone just rise to the occasion and get our students on track? It should be outrageous to people that vaccinated teachers are taking leave in the middle of the school year just to avoid in person teaching.

Clearly it is outrageous to some, others see that there are legitimate reasons why someone might need to take leave at this time.

This. They are taking unpaid leave to care for school-aged kids who are going to be home because of hybrid. Some are teaching from home until a sub can be found. The pandemic has affected them, too. Have a heart.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This stuff doesn’t happen in private schools. The reason is parents would not tolerate it for 1 second. Here, the public school parents are letting the children go to school to be taught by monitors and then justifying this craziness on the boards. When can we all just put the students first for a change? Why can’t everyone just rise to the occasion and get our students on track? It should be outrageous to people that vaccinated teachers are taking leave in the middle of the school year just to avoid in person teaching.

Clearly it is outrageous to some, others see that there are legitimate reasons why someone might need to take leave at this time.

This. They are taking unpaid leave to care for school-aged kids who are going to be home because of hybrid. Some are teaching from home until a sub can be found. The pandemic has affected them, too. Have a heart.

They could also be taking unpaid leave because they have a spouse or child going through chemo or something else that makes them severely imunocompromised and can’t bring Covid home to them. Districts couldn’t give p2 status because of how many would need it so rather than be able to stay and teach from home, they had to take unpaid leave to protect their family. As would all of you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
This stuff doesn’t happen in private schools. The reason is parents would not tolerate it for 1 second. Here, the public school parents are letting the children go to school to be taught by monitors and then justifying this craziness on the boards. When can we all just put the students first for a change? Why can’t everyone just rise to the occasion and get our students on track? It should be outrageous to people that vaccinated teachers are taking leave in the middle of the school year just to avoid in person teaching.

Is this the OP? If so, have you been reading this thread at all? I think these questions have been answered already.

[Anonymous]

It would be better for the students to let the teachers continue to teach from home then make the teachers take unpaid leave and have the students get some sub who can’t get up to speed on the tech and the curriculum. Major disruption. For a quarter of the school year. Just keep the teachers on staff for God’s sake and let them teach.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hi all,
I am dismayed. Despite the teachers having full access to vaccines, 2 of my kid’s middle school teachers still have opted to stay home when the kids are in person next week.
How can APS justify this when a classroom full of kids are present? This is just so shameful. Teaching is an in perjob!
The standards are just getting worse and worse in APS.

Only two? Sounds pretty good to me.
If "teaching is an in-person job," what have your kids been doing all year? And what have their teachers been doing?