Teachers are Vital Public Servants and Should Act Like It

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Couldn't agree with this more. Its time to step up and help out the students who have been out of the classroom for almost a year now.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/25/teachers-are-vital-public-servants-time-them-start-acting-like-it/

Sure. How are we doing on air cleaners, PPE, contact tracing, testing, and safe lunch plans? Last I checked, teachers weren't capable of implementing those things.

If you make it SAFE, they will COME.

Oh? Teachers are the best judge of that? So they're not essential but they're omniscient? No wonder they're acting crazy lately.

If we as a society can provide a safe workplace, they will return.

The only crazies here are the ones pushing to open schools NOW regardless of safety.

How many studies do you need to show schools can open in a low risk way? There are new ones out every day.

Yes, they can open in low-risk ways. Let's use those low-risk ways to open them. That is my whole point.

[Anonymous]

It is scary that teachers REFUSE to be educated themselves.

Teachers:Seek out credible resources for information on Covid and the safety of schools.

Please.

At this stage of the game, with all the data NOT supporting the death beat drum - plus vaccination priority - teachers are not just taking advantage of the situation. And kids are paying the price.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Couldn't agree with this more. Its time to step up and help out the students who have been out of the classroom for almost a year now.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/25/teachers-are-vital-public-servants-time-them-start-acting-like-it/

F off. Where did you type this from your couch while you WFH?

Teachers are working their butts off. I'm sitting hear listening to the most patient person in the world explain to 25 6 year olds how to do their math test on line. Its absurd they have to take a test on DL. Brace yourself for DCPS to say that kids are failing in math.

BTW my kid can do all the first grade math - but he guessed on the whole test because its an app.

My sister is a 4th grade teacher. She cries at 4 pm every day because she can't be there in person for her kids. Not one child in her class is returning in person. NOT ONE PARENT wants to put their kids at risk like that. BTW she's fully vaccinated tomorrow.

She's been doing this for a year - making cards for her kids and mailing them out (with her money not the school's); doing one on ones; working all day sunday on her day off to create age appropriate lessons.

F you for thinking teachers aren't working and doing their best.

I'm sorry you have such a sad life.

I emailed my kid's first grade teacher a virtual hug. It's hard and I can hear in her voice how hard it is for her.

We have one child doing DL in a car -guess what his poor mom doesn't want to put her kid in harms way either. BTW he's participating and learning - I'm hearing it right now.

F you

I agree with you. Fock all these lame failing parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I really wish I could tell whether this article is wise advice or just another UMC professional working from home who is sick of having his children underfoot (I googled — he has two children). In this debate it is so hard to separate the message from the messenger. People are more than happy to embrace risk when it’s not a risk to them personally.

I’m not sure why it matters? Either his ideas have merit or they don’t. If he was definitely right, but also desperately wanted his kids back in school, that wouldn’t make his ideas less right.

I do think the teachers unions made a tactical error in arguing against the essential nature of their work. I understand why it was done back in the spring, and agreed with keeping schools closed then. But in the summer they should have acknowledged how essential in person school is and fought for safe open schools (rather than simply working to obstruct reopening). I think it was a huge mistake to argue that their job was possible to do from home (for younger grades, at least, it is not) and that there was limited harm in continuing with virtual. Parents know that’s not true because we’re in the room. We know it’s inadequate and we know why.

[Anonymous]

all those studies are invalid because they weren't randomly testing the kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Couldn't agree with this more. Its time to step up and help out the students who have been out of the classroom for almost a year now.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/25/teachers-are-vital-public-servants-time-them-start-acting-like-it/

F off. Where did you type this from your couch while you WFH?

Teachers are working their butts off. I'm sitting hear listening to the most patient person in the world explain to 25 6 year olds how to do their math test on line. Its absurd they have to take a test on DL. Brace yourself for DCPS to say that kids are failing in math.

BTW my kid can do all the first grade math - but he guessed on the whole test because its an app.

My sister is a 4th grade teacher. She cries at 4 pm every day because she can't be there in person for her kids. Not one child in her class is returning in person. NOT ONE PARENT wants to put their kids at risk like that. BTW she's fully vaccinated tomorrow.

She's been doing this for a year - making cards for her kids and mailing them out (with her money not the school's); doing one on ones; working all day sunday on her day off to create age appropriate lessons.

F you for thinking teachers aren't working and doing their best.

I'm sorry you have such a sad life.

I emailed my kid's first grade teacher a virtual hug. It's hard and I can hear in her voice how hard it is for her.

We have one child doing DL in a car -guess what his poor mom doesn't want to put her kid in harms way either. BTW he's participating and learning - I'm hearing it right now.

F you

This poster's writing style is getting really identifiable through her presence everywhere. She always writes seemingly unhinged screeds consisting of single sentences followed by two character-returns. Sometimes she puts a period at the end of her sentences, sometimes not. Her thoughts jump around in a non-sequitur fashion, and sometimes it seems like she writes something from the middle of her thought process (pretending, perhaps, in her mind that readers all understand the prior and following thoughts). Someone generally suggests she is having a mental health crisis or is unhinged.

Dear poster: maybe DCUM isn't that great for your well-being? I mean, I come here, too, for the drama. But it seems to really upset you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Couldn't agree with this more. Its time to step up and help out the students who have been out of the classroom for almost a year now.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/25/teachers-are-vital-public-servants-time-them-start-acting-like-it/

F off. Where did you type this from your couch while you WFH?

Teachers are working their butts off. I'm sitting hear listening to the most patient person in the world explain to 25 6 year olds how to do their math test on line. Its absurd they have to take a test on DL. Brace yourself for DCPS to say that kids are failing in math.

BTW my kid can do all the first grade math - but he guessed on the whole test because its an app.

My sister is a 4th grade teacher. She cries at 4 pm every day because she can't be there in person for her kids. Not one child in her class is returning in person. NOT ONE PARENT wants to put their kids at risk like that. BTW she's fully vaccinated tomorrow.

She's been doing this for a year - making cards for her kids and mailing them out (with her money not the school's); doing one on ones; working all day sunday on her day off to create age appropriate lessons.

F you for thinking teachers aren't working and doing their best.

I'm sorry you have such a sad life.

I emailed my kid's first grade teacher a virtual hug. It's hard and I can hear in her voice how hard it is for her.

We have one child doing DL in a car -guess what his poor mom doesn't want to put her kid in harms way either. BTW he's participating and learning - I'm hearing it right now.

F you

Where is that? I call BS.

[Anonymous]

These posts and opinion pieces do no one any good. Good teachers are working hard, if not harder and doing their best. What we see is students and parents not doing their part. Today is the last day of the marking period. My kids have been dismissed from all their classes as their work is done to allow other kids to get their outstanding work done vs. failing them like they should. It takes parents teaming with teachers to make DL work. Everyone expects teachers to do everything but they cannot and as a parent you are either part of the problem or solution.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Couldn't agree with this more. Its time to step up and help out the students who have been out of the classroom for almost a year now.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/25/teachers-are-vital-public-servants-time-them-start-acting-like-it/

F off. Where did you type this from your couch while you WFH?

Teachers are working their butts off. I'm sitting hear listening to the most patient person in the world explain to 25 6 year olds how to do their math test on line. Its absurd they have to take a test on DL. Brace yourself for DCPS to say that kids are failing in math.

BTW my kid can do all the first grade math - but he guessed on the whole test because its an app.

My sister is a 4th grade teacher. She cries at 4 pm every day because she can't be there in person for her kids. Not one child in her class is returning in person. NOT ONE PARENT wants to put their kids at risk like that. BTW she's fully vaccinated tomorrow.

She's been doing this for a year - making cards for her kids and mailing them out (with her money not the school's); doing one on ones; working all day sunday on her day off to create age appropriate lessons.

F you for thinking teachers aren't working and doing their best.

I'm sorry you have such a sad life.

I emailed my kid's first grade teacher a virtual hug. It's hard and I can hear in her voice how hard it is for her.

We have one child doing DL in a car -guess what his poor mom doesn't want to put her kid in harms way either. BTW he's participating and learning - I'm hearing it right now.

F you

Parents don't want to send their kids back as their kids, nor they are vaccinated and the spread is very concerning. Just because a teacher is vaccinated doesn't make the entire classroom safe. I would never consider sending mine back now. The risk of catching covid are too great. We've been home since March and will stay home until things get better. I didn't stay home all this time to catch COVID.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Couldn't agree with this more. Its time to step up and help out the students who have been out of the classroom for almost a year now.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/25/teachers-are-vital-public-servants-time-them-start-acting-like-it/

F off. Where did you type this from your couch while you WFH?

Teachers are working their butts off. I'm sitting hear listening to the most patient person in the world explain to 25 6 year olds how to do their math test on line. Its absurd they have to take a test on DL. Brace yourself for DCPS to say that kids are failing in math.

BTW my kid can do all the first grade math - but he guessed on the whole test because its an app.

My sister is a 4th grade teacher. She cries at 4 pm every day because she can't be there in person for her kids. Not one child in her class is returning in person. NOT ONE PARENT wants to put their kids at risk like that. BTW she's fully vaccinated tomorrow.

She's been doing this for a year - making cards for her kids and mailing them out (with her money not the school's); doing one on ones; working all day sunday on her day off to create age appropriate lessons.

F you for thinking teachers aren't working and doing their best.

I'm sorry you have such a sad life.

I emailed my kid's first grade teacher a virtual hug. It's hard and I can hear in her voice how hard it is for her.

We have one child doing DL in a car -guess what his poor mom doesn't want to put her kid in harms way either. BTW he's participating and learning - I'm hearing it right now.

F you

Where is that? I call BS.

I'm betting based on vaccination that the sister is a teacher in Virginia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These posts and opinion pieces do no one any good. Good teachers are working hard, if not harder and doing their best. What we see is students and parents not doing their part. Today is the last day of the marking period. My kids have been dismissed from all their classes as their work is done to allow other kids to get their outstanding work done vs. failing them like they should. It takes parents teaming with teachers to make DL work. Everyone expects teachers to do everything but they cannot and as a parent you are either part of the problem or solution.

It's almost like...parents have JOBS. That they also have to do. To feed, clothe, and shelter children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is scary that teachers REFUSE to be educated themselves.

Teachers:Seek out credible resources for information on Covid and the safety of schools.

Please.

At this stage of the game, with all the data NOT supporting the death beat drum - plus vaccination priority - teachers are not just taking advantage of the situation. And kids are paying the price.

Its not just about vaccinating teachers. You clearly don't look at credible resources as it isn't safe to open right now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These posts and opinion pieces do no one any good. Good teachers are working hard, if not harder and doing their best. What we see is students and parents not doing their part. Today is the last day of the marking period. My kids have been dismissed from all their classes as their work is done to allow other kids to get their outstanding work done vs. failing them like they should. It takes parents teaming with teachers to make DL work. Everyone expects teachers to do everything but they cannot and as a parent you are either part of the problem or solution.

It's almost like...parents have JOBS. That they also have to do. To feed, clothe, and shelter children.

Ok, so you NEED child care. Pay or it or apply for a voucher or other low cost child care. The school is there to educate, not for child care. Child care has been an added bonus but not during a pandemic. You paid for day care when your kids were 0-5, so you pay for it now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is scary that teachers REFUSE to be educated themselves.

Teachers:Seek out credible resources for information on Covid and the safety of schools.

Please.

At this stage of the game, with all the data NOT supporting the death beat drum - plus vaccination priority - teachers are not just taking advantage of the situation. And kids are paying the price.

Its not just about vaccinating teachers. You clearly don't look at credible resources as it isn't safe to open right now.

Like the CDC....totally not credible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These posts and opinion pieces do no one any good. Good teachers are working hard, if not harder and doing their best. What we see is students and parents not doing their part. Today is the last day of the marking period. My kids have been dismissed from all their classes as their work is done to allow other kids to get their outstanding work done vs. failing them like they should. It takes parents teaming with teachers to make DL work. Everyone expects teachers to do everything but they cannot and as a parent you are either part of the problem or solution.

It's almost like...parents have JOBS. That they also have to do. To feed, clothe, and shelter children.

Ok, so you NEED child care. Pay or it or apply for a voucher or other low cost child care. The school is there to educate, not for child care. Child care has been an added bonus but not during a pandemic. You paid for day care when your kids were 0-5, so you pay for it now.

This funny argument. School is, in fact, child care for young kids. Just...stop.