WHAT?! APS now closed 1/6??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don’t compare APS teachers with healthcare workers. Different class altogether! Right now, nurses and doctors are not abandoning their call for duty and staying home and asking for a paycheck. Nurses are also mothers but true heroes. They are working round the clock to take care of patients in this pandemic. Physicians and respiratory therapists too. The teachers refusing to work despite being vaccinated is just shameful but they are showing their true colors for everyone to see. Never again can they ever be treated as essential workers and no longer they will be respected as they once were. You have to be professional to be treated professionally. Healthcare workers are thinking of others, teachers are thinking about themselves, not their students.

Woah slow down there. We aren’t talking about working during a pandemic. We are talking about not working during a snow storm. There is a reason why calls to get healthcare workers to work in 4 wheel drive vehicles exists in a snowstorm. It’s because they are essential. It is not like they make four wheel drive school buses and not like the get droves of parents signing up to drive to Woodbridge to pick up teachers during a snow storm.

I think you took my point about female dominated professions like nursing and teaching and had a 2020 PTSD moment.

Today is not a snowstorm. Not close.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don’t compare APS teachers with healthcare workers. Different class altogether! Right now, nurses and doctors are not abandoning their call for duty and staying home and asking for a paycheck. Nurses are also mothers but true heroes. They are working round the clock to take care of patients in this pandemic. Physicians and respiratory therapists too. The teachers refusing to work despite being vaccinated is just shameful but they are showing their true colors for everyone to see. Never again can they ever be treated as essential workers and no longer they will be respected as they once were. You have to be professional to be treated professionally. Healthcare workers are thinking of others, teachers are thinking about themselves, not their students.

In this case teachers are “refusing” to work due to COVID or using PTO given to them (in APS it’s 3 days/year) just like most other people are free to do
Plus plenty of healthcare workers are quitting https://amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/620713/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don’t compare APS teachers with healthcare workers. Different class altogether! Right now, nurses and doctors are not abandoning their call for duty and staying home and asking for a paycheck. Nurses are also mothers but true heroes. They are working round the clock to take care of patients in this pandemic. Physicians and respiratory therapists too. The teachers refusing to work despite being vaccinated is just shameful but they are showing their true colors for everyone to see. Never again can they ever be treated as essential workers and no longer they will be respected as they once were. You have to be professional to be treated professionally. Healthcare workers are thinking of others, teachers are thinking about themselves, not their students.

In this case teachers are “refusing” to work due to COVID or using PTO given to them (in APS it’s 3 days/year) just like most other people are free to do
Plus plenty of healthcare workers are quitting https://amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/620713/

No, that is not how it works for most other people. While you get PTO, there are limitations of when you can use it to ensure adequate staffing levels.

[Anonymous]

So no addition to our house. We are putting our kids in the neighborhood Catholic school as soon as they add some classes.

Other neighbors have done this with good results. It is not about the snow, it is more about what we see as chaos. Teachers say they won’t work and the atmosphere at our neighborhood school is depressing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So no addition to our house. We are putting our kids in the neighborhood Catholic school as soon as they add some classes.

Other neighbors have done this with good results. It is not about the snow, it is more about what we see as chaos. Teachers say they won’t work and the atmosphere at our neighborhood school is depressing.

Make sure they don’t follow APS closures (or that it isn’t St. Anns)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don’t compare APS teachers with healthcare workers. Different class altogether! Right now, nurses and doctors are not abandoning their call for duty and staying home and asking for a paycheck. Nurses are also mothers but true heroes. They are working round the clock to take care of patients in this pandemic. Physicians and respiratory therapists too. The teachers refusing to work despite being vaccinated is just shameful but they are showing their true colors for everyone to see. Never again can they ever be treated as essential workers and no longer they will be respected as they once were. You have to be professional to be treated professionally. Healthcare workers are thinking of others, teachers are thinking about themselves, not their students.

In this case teachers are “refusing” to work due to COVID or using PTO given to them (in APS it’s 3 days/year) just like most other people are free to do
Plus plenty of healthcare workers are quitting https://amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/620713/

No, that is not how it works for most other people. While you get PTO, there are limitations of when you can use it to ensure adequate staffing levels.

Really? It has been in all non-teaching jobs I’ve had.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don’t compare APS teachers with healthcare workers. Different class altogether! Right now, nurses and doctors are not abandoning their call for duty and staying home and asking for a paycheck. Nurses are also mothers but true heroes. They are working round the clock to take care of patients in this pandemic. Physicians and respiratory therapists too. The teachers refusing to work despite being vaccinated is just shameful but they are showing their true colors for everyone to see. Never again can they ever be treated as essential workers and no longer they will be respected as they once were. You have to be professional to be treated professionally. Healthcare workers are thinking of others, teachers are thinking about themselves, not their students.

I am a real estate agent and was classified as an essential worker. I thought it was bizarre, but going through the market since the pandemic began, I can say I worked a lot more than my children’s teachers and worked most evenings so that I could work during the virtual school days with my three kids.

I in no way compare myself to the true essential workers in medicine, government, and many other services, but I think teachers really harmed themselves by not being as adaptable as others during the pandemic

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don’t compare APS teachers with healthcare workers. Different class altogether! Right now, nurses and doctors are not abandoning their call for duty and staying home and asking for a paycheck. Nurses are also mothers but true heroes. They are working round the clock to take care of patients in this pandemic. Physicians and respiratory therapists too. The teachers refusing to work despite being vaccinated is just shameful but they are showing their true colors for everyone to see. Never again can they ever be treated as essential workers and no longer they will be respected as they once were. You have to be professional to be treated professionally. Healthcare workers are thinking of others, teachers are thinking about themselves, not their students.

I’m a teacher. I’ve been at work all year. We got 7 inches of snow and bunch of my colleagues are sick with CoVID. Go f—k yourself and the horse you rode in on. We’ll see your kids Monday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So no addition to our house. We are putting our kids in the neighborhood Catholic school as soon as they add some classes.

Other neighbors have done this with good results. It is not about the snow, it is more about what we see as chaos. Teachers say they won’t work and the atmosphere at our neighborhood school is depressing.

Make sure they don’t follow APS closures (or that it isn’t St. Anns)

As I said, we are not leaving because of snow closures, but because of the chaos in our APS school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don’t compare APS teachers with healthcare workers. Different class altogether! Right now, nurses and doctors are not abandoning their call for duty and staying home and asking for a paycheck. Nurses are also mothers but true heroes. They are working round the clock to take care of patients in this pandemic. Physicians and respiratory therapists too. The teachers refusing to work despite being vaccinated is just shameful but they are showing their true colors for everyone to see. Never again can they ever be treated as essential workers and no longer they will be respected as they once were. You have to be professional to be treated professionally. Healthcare workers are thinking of others, teachers are thinking about themselves, not their students.

I’m a teacher. I’ve been at work all year. We got 7 inches of snow and bunch of my colleagues are sick with CoVID. Go f—k yourself and the horse you rode in on. We’ll see your kids Monday.

Exhibit A of the type of people who are teachers. We are all in their situation or worse, but do not curse our clients.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don’t compare APS teachers with healthcare workers. Different class altogether! Right now, nurses and doctors are not abandoning their call for duty and staying home and asking for a paycheck. Nurses are also mothers but true heroes. They are working round the clock to take care of patients in this pandemic. Physicians and respiratory therapists too. The teachers refusing to work despite being vaccinated is just shameful but they are showing their true colors for everyone to see. Never again can they ever be treated as essential workers and no longer they will be respected as they once were. You have to be professional to be treated professionally. Healthcare workers are thinking of others, teachers are thinking about themselves, not their students.

I’m a teacher. I’ve been at work all year. We got 7 inches of snow and bunch of my colleagues are sick with CoVID. Go f—k yourself and the horse you rode in on. We’ll see your kids Monday.

Exhibit A of the type of people who are teachers. We are all in their situation or worse, but do not curse our clients.

No- Exhibit A is this person saying we’re “shameful”, “showing out true colors”, and only thinking of ourselves. Maybe it’s you? You have to stand up to bullies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don’t compare APS teachers with healthcare workers. Different class altogether! Right now, nurses and doctors are not abandoning their call for duty and staying home and asking for a paycheck. Nurses are also mothers but true heroes. They are working round the clock to take care of patients in this pandemic. Physicians and respiratory therapists too. The teachers refusing to work despite being vaccinated is just shameful but they are showing their true colors for everyone to see. Never again can they ever be treated as essential workers and no longer they will be respected as they once were. You have to be professional to be treated professionally. Healthcare workers are thinking of others, teachers are thinking about themselves, not their students.

I’m a teacher. I’ve been at work all year. We got 7 inches of snow and bunch of my colleagues are sick with CoVID. Go f—k yourself and the horse you rode in on. We’ll see your kids Monday.

Exhibit A of the type of people who are teachers. We are all in their situation or worse, but do not curse our clients.

No- Exhibit A is this person saying we’re “shameful”, “showing out true colors”, and only thinking of ourselves. Maybe it’s you? You have to stand up to bullies.

The rub is teachers are suddenly acting like they are more unique and special than others. Teaching has always been an in person job. All other in person jobs have carried on--medical, national security, home repairs, etc etc. Every other profession is showing up. There is all kinds of slander-- "well, you don't work with a classroom full of kids", blah blah.

The other issue is that most of the rest of America, and the world, are not adopting this stance. So it's hard to support unique pockets of, "I'm special".

I 100% support teachers, wish they were paid and respected more. But, working parents are over this insanity. And anyone with resources will not tolerate much more. We will move way and leave too. Less of a teacher problem I guess if you are going to quit or don't care about your profession or involved and dedicated parents, and more of an admin. and county problem, but, not a moot point nonetheless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don’t compare APS teachers with healthcare workers. Different class altogether! Right now, nurses and doctors are not abandoning their call for duty and staying home and asking for a paycheck. Nurses are also mothers but true heroes. They are working round the clock to take care of patients in this pandemic. Physicians and respiratory therapists too. The teachers refusing to work despite being vaccinated is just shameful but they are showing their true colors for everyone to see. Never again can they ever be treated as essential workers and no longer they will be respected as they once were. You have to be professional to be treated professionally. Healthcare workers are thinking of others, teachers are thinking about themselves, not their students.

I’m a teacher. I’ve been at work all year. We got 7 inches of snow and bunch of my colleagues are sick with CoVID. Go f—k yourself and the horse you rode in on. We’ll see your kids Monday.

Exhibit A of the type of people who are teachers. We are all in their situation or worse, but do not curse our clients.

NP, but no, most of us do not spend our whole day in rooms full of 30 kids who may or may not be able to keep their masks on. I work a desk job and I even have my own office. Realtors show an empty house off to a few people at a time. And lots of people lose their cool on this anonymous message board — just look at the disrespect coming from the parent of the original comment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don’t compare APS teachers with healthcare workers. Different class altogether! Right now, nurses and doctors are not abandoning their call for duty and staying home and asking for a paycheck. Nurses are also mothers but true heroes. They are working round the clock to take care of patients in this pandemic. Physicians and respiratory therapists too. The teachers refusing to work despite being vaccinated is just shameful but they are showing their true colors for everyone to see. Never again can they ever be treated as essential workers and no longer they will be respected as they once were. You have to be professional to be treated professionally. Healthcare workers are thinking of others, teachers are thinking about themselves, not their students.

I’m a teacher. I’ve been at work all year. We got 7 inches of snow and bunch of my colleagues are sick with CoVID. Go f—k yourself and the horse you rode in on. We’ll see your kids Monday.

Exhibit A of the type of people who are teachers. We are all in their situation or worse, but do not curse our clients.

No- Exhibit A is this person saying we’re “shameful”, “showing out true colors”, and only thinking of ourselves. Maybe it’s you? You have to stand up to bullies.

The rub is teachers are suddenly acting like they are more unique and special than others. Teaching has always been an in person job. All other in person jobs have carried on--medical, national security, home repairs, etc etc. Every other profession is showing up. There is all kinds of slander-- "well, you don't work with a classroom full of kids", blah blah.

The other issue is that most of the rest of America, and the world, are not adopting this stance. So it's hard to support unique pockets of, "I'm special".

I 100% support teachers, wish they were paid and respected more. But, working parents are over this insanity. And anyone with resources will not tolerate much more. We will move way and leave too. Less of a teacher problem I guess if you are going to quit or don't care about your profession or involved and dedicated parents, and more of an admin. and county problem, but, not a moot point nonetheless.

Fine! Go! Don't let the door hit you on the backside as you leave.

I love it that you think your leaving is a threat to anyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don’t compare APS teachers with healthcare workers. Different class altogether! Right now, nurses and doctors are not abandoning their call for duty and staying home and asking for a paycheck. Nurses are also mothers but true heroes. They are working round the clock to take care of patients in this pandemic. Physicians and respiratory therapists too. The teachers refusing to work despite being vaccinated is just shameful but they are showing their true colors for everyone to see. Never again can they ever be treated as essential workers and no longer they will be respected as they once were. You have to be professional to be treated professionally. Healthcare workers are thinking of others, teachers are thinking about themselves, not their students.

I’m a teacher. I’ve been at work all year. We got 7 inches of snow and bunch of my colleagues are sick with CoVID. Go f—k yourself and the horse you rode in on. We’ll see your kids Monday.

Exhibit A of the type of people who are teachers. We are all in their situation or worse, but do not curse our clients.

No- Exhibit A is this person saying we’re “shameful”, “showing out true colors”, and only thinking of ourselves. Maybe it’s you? You have to stand up to bullies.

The rub is teachers are suddenly acting like they are more unique and special than others. Teaching has always been an in person job. All other in person jobs have carried on--medical, national security, home repairs, etc etc. Every other profession is showing up. There is all kinds of slander-- "well, you don't work with a classroom full of kids", blah blah.

The other issue is that most of the rest of America, and the world, are not adopting this stance. So it's hard to support unique pockets of, "I'm special".

I 100% support teachers, wish they were paid and respected more. But, working parents are over this insanity. And anyone with resources will not tolerate much more. We will move way and leave too. Less of a teacher problem I guess if you are going to quit or don't care about your profession or involved and dedicated parents, and more of an admin. and county problem, but, not a moot point nonetheless.

What you’re saying isn’t true, but I think the best solution is for me to stay off of these boards. I think there are some people that just want to believe that nonsense. I get all upset, and try to defend my profession, but it’s not worth it. Good luck with the move!