Harvard Business School paper: "Who Closed the Schools?"
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Anonymous
School isn't daycare, as we've been reminded ad nauseum by teachers. |
Anonymous
who were dealing with a pandemic made worse by your orange leader. none of this happened in a vacuum. |
Anonymous
It's fine, we can all agree that leadership in the United States is more likely to be incompetent from top to bottom than competent. That doesn't absolve any level of government from their responsibility to try to do their job well. Data was out last summer on mitigation measures required to open schools. Some places did, some places didn't. Some, maybe all, places that didn't open had poor leadership. That poor leadership happens to effect students' educations even without a pandemic. The linked working paper goes into detail on that part. |
Anonymous
| How do they measure or otherwise identify "districts that favored student interests" pre-COVID? |
Anonymous
Read page 7. |
Anonymous
no, school isn't daycare unless you are a teacher, then it is day care |
Anonymous
| All of my teacher friends have always found their own childcare including this past year. I only know one teacher who didn't send her kid to daycare this year and it was due to his asthma. I think her husband traded off childcare with grandma for him. |
Anonymous
I believe that teachers are able to find daycare. Where I live (in the DMV), the lack of childcare has been cited as reason that teachers cannot return to in-person education. In part, this means that the teacher teaches at a different school than their child(ren), and that other school wasn't open or didn't have enough availability of slots. So instead of hiring childcare like the rest of us that have to work in-person, those teachers were able to continue teaching from home. |
Anonymous
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Didn’t we know all along that prioritizing teacher safety would result in worse outcomes for students? And we assumed that prioritizing better educational outcomes for students would be detrimental to teacher safety.
I guess it’s nice to have a study on this but it hardly seems noteworthy. |
Anonymous
| What would have been better with the sub par distance learning would have been to enroll kids in already existing distance learning programs instead. Or gave parents a stipend to go find their own in person learning. |
Anonymous
Lol. No, there are teachers (and union reps) stating that there would be no learning failures since kids were technically having education via zoom. They think that everything was perfecto with distance learning. |
Anonymous
People have made all sorts of arguments as to what predicted virtual school. Red state v. Blue state, COVID case levels, percent minority etc. This paper just IDs one constant cause. |
Anonymous
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If we had prioritized making income available for folks rather than sending adults back to work in unsafe public-facing customer service jobs, we could have kept the schools open. That's what other countries did.
Setting this up as a "teachers vs kids" problem is a way of distracting folks from asking questions about why we decided to open restaurants ahead of schools. |
Anonymous
...says the MCPS employee. |
Anonymous
I have seen many arguments from teachers and former teachers that since both staff and students are in school, making life better for staff in any way (including more pay, less hours, or COVID closures) is automatically better for students. |