Real talk: are there going to be enough teachers for summer school?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm sorry, but school functions as child care for many families. When school buildings close, parents that can't work from home and can't magically conjure a new supply of child care during a pandemic, lose their incomes. If that offends you, I really can't help you, nor do I care to. You're on your own.

Teachers know part of their jobs is providing you with a form of childcare. No one is offended by that. However, it’s no one else’s responsibility but your own to provide for your kids if emergencies arise, pandemics occur,etc.

Stop lying. Teachers (real teachers, not anonymous DCUM posters) were absolutely offended that parents were stressed about an existential threat to their livelihoods. And it's ridiculous.

Nah. They weren't. You just want to perpetuate this narrative because you're angry at the world. We get it. Try doing something productive with this anger. Get involved in politics, get involved,-help get universal childcare passed. You won't-you just want to waste time being petulant and whining on threads while disparaging the teachers who are providing your kids with an education. It is pathetic.

It's not disparaging to describe what teachers I know posted on social media.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm sorry, but school functions as child care for many families. When school buildings close, parents that can't work from home and can't magically conjure a new supply of child care during a pandemic, lose their incomes. If that offends you, I really can't help you, nor do I care to. You're on your own.

Teachers know part of their jobs is providing you with a form of childcare. No one is offended by that. However, it’s no one else’s responsibility but your own to provide for your kids if emergencies arise, pandemics occur,etc.

Funny how the calculus suddenly changes when it's teachers that need child care. Then, it is up to MCPS to make sure they have time to get it. Lol.

The alternative was that teachers didn’t work. And that pissed DCUM off.

IT IS ALSO BAD IF OTHER PEOPLE CAN'T WORK. TEACHERS ARE NOT THE ONLY IMPORTANT PEOPLE IN THE WORLD.

If teachers quit, who watches all the children?

It doesn't matter because the women have already left the workforce so we're good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP, So teacher are not working women with families? People want teachers to return to their schools to teach their children but forget that if teacher's do not have childcare they cannot go back into the classroom.


People forget that teachers are working professionals, they are not your underpaid nannies. Thus as working professionals they are entitled to fair and safe working environments

What a random mess of ideas. Was this written by an adult?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm sorry, but school functions as child care for many families. When school buildings close, parents that can't work from home and can't magically conjure a new supply of child care during a pandemic, lose their incomes. If that offends you, I really can't help you, nor do I care to. You're on your own.

Teachers know part of their jobs is providing you with a form of childcare. No one is offended by that. However, it’s no one else’s responsibility but your own to provide for your kids if emergencies arise, pandemics occur,etc.

Funny how the calculus suddenly changes when it's teachers that need child care. Then, it is up to MCPS to make sure they have time to get it. Lol.

The alternative was that teachers didn’t work. And that pissed DCUM off.

IT IS ALSO BAD IF OTHER PEOPLE CAN'T WORK. TEACHERS ARE NOT THE ONLY IMPORTANT PEOPLE IN THE WORLD.

If teachers quit, who watches all the children?

It doesn't matter because the women have already left the workforce so we're good.

Most teachers are women so that makes sense.

If childcare access is key to women’s ability to work, childcare through school is the easiest way to provide access, AND most teachers are women, there is going to have to be childcare for teachers. Otherwise, teachers who are mothers will drop out of the workforce and school as childcare won’t be possible.

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Anonymous wrote:Perhaps this year will be a teachable moment for communities to respect, fund, and support schools and their employees.

A teachable moment to do what? Perhaps if teachers got back inside the classroom earlier and for more days per week, you'd be onto something.

You’re a moron. That is all. Pure trash.

What is the teachable moment? 1.5 years of crappy DL proved that we should respect, fund, and support school systems and their employees? That's beyond a crazy reach. Maybe proved that we needed to fund some HVAC filters I guess.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm sorry, but school functions as child care for many families. When school buildings close, parents that can't work from home and can't magically conjure a new supply of child care during a pandemic, lose their incomes. If that offends you, I really can't help you, nor do I care to. You're on your own.

Teachers know part of their jobs is providing you with a form of childcare. No one is offended by that. However, it’s no one else’s responsibility but your own to provide for your kids if emergencies arise, pandemics occur,etc.

Funny how the calculus suddenly changes when it's teachers that need child care. Then, it is up to MCPS to make sure they have time to get it. Lol.

The alternative was that teachers didn’t work. And that pissed DCUM off.

IT IS ALSO BAD IF OTHER PEOPLE CAN'T WORK. TEACHERS ARE NOT THE ONLY IMPORTANT PEOPLE IN THE WORLD.

If teachers quit, who watches all the children?

It doesn't matter because the women have already left the workforce so we're good.

Most teachers are women so that makes sense.

If childcare access is key to women’s ability to work, childcare through school is the easiest way to provide access, AND most teachers are women, there is going to have to be childcare for teachers. Otherwise, teachers who are mothers will drop out of the workforce and school as childcare won’t be possible.

I'm not against child care for teachers but remember, that's not my problem anymore than child care for nurses, doctors, paramedics, grocery store workers, and all the other people that have made our lives possible over the past year and change is teachers' problem.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm sorry, but school functions as child care for many families. When school buildings close, parents that can't work from home and can't magically conjure a new supply of child care during a pandemic, lose their incomes. If that offends you, I really can't help you, nor do I care to. You're on your own.

Teachers know part of their jobs is providing you with a form of childcare. No one is offended by that. However, it’s no one else’s responsibility but your own to provide for your kids if emergencies arise, pandemics occur,etc.

Funny how the calculus suddenly changes when it's teachers that need child care. Then, it is up to MCPS to make sure they have time to get it. Lol.

The alternative was that teachers didn’t work. And that pissed DCUM off.

IT IS ALSO BAD IF OTHER PEOPLE CAN'T WORK. TEACHERS ARE NOT THE ONLY IMPORTANT PEOPLE IN THE WORLD.

If teachers quit, who watches all the children?

It doesn't matter because the women have already left the workforce so we're good.

Most teachers are women so that makes sense.

If childcare access is key to women’s ability to work, childcare through school is the easiest way to provide access, AND most teachers are women, there is going to have to be childcare for teachers. Otherwise, teachers who are mothers will drop out of the workforce and school as childcare won’t be possible.

I'm not against child care for teachers but remember, that's not my problem anymore than child care for nurses, doctors, paramedics, grocery store workers, and all the other people that have made our lives possible over the past year and change is teachers' problem.

Great! You worked out childcare without teachers so you won’t be complaining, right?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm sorry, but school functions as child care for many families. When school buildings close, parents that can't work from home and can't magically conjure a new supply of child care during a pandemic, lose their incomes. If that offends you, I really can't help you, nor do I care to. You're on your own.

Teachers know part of their jobs is providing you with a form of childcare. No one is offended by that. However, it’s no one else’s responsibility but your own to provide for your kids if emergencies arise, pandemics occur,etc.

Funny how the calculus suddenly changes when it's teachers that need child care. Then, it is up to MCPS to make sure they have time to get it. Lol.

The alternative was that teachers didn’t work. And that pissed DCUM off.

IT IS ALSO BAD IF OTHER PEOPLE CAN'T WORK. TEACHERS ARE NOT THE ONLY IMPORTANT PEOPLE IN THE WORLD.

If teachers quit, who watches all the children?

It doesn't matter because the women have already left the workforce so we're good.

Most teachers are women so that makes sense.

If childcare access is key to women’s ability to work, childcare through school is the easiest way to provide access, AND most teachers are women, there is going to have to be childcare for teachers. Otherwise, teachers who are mothers will drop out of the workforce and school as childcare won’t be possible.

I'm not against child care for teachers but remember, that's not my problem anymore than child care for nurses, doctors, paramedics, grocery store workers, and all the other people that have made our lives possible over the past year and change is teachers' problem.

Great! You worked out childcare without teachers so you won’t be complaining, right?

Good lord you people are literally the most self-centered people on this planet..it makes me I'll.

[Anonymous]

Threads like this explain why fewer and fewer people want to be teachers. No matter what happens in society, someone figures out a way to blame teachers for it or dump the problem on them. When teachers finally push back then the “lazy teachers” comments roll in.

[Anonymous]

MCPS got a boat load of money this year and next in addition to their regular budget. Teachers in MoCo make a pretty good living with amazing benefits. Enough with the “schools are underfunded”. It does not apply to MCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm sorry, but school functions as child care for many families. When school buildings close, parents that can't work from home and can't magically conjure a new supply of child care during a pandemic, lose their incomes. If that offends you, I really can't help you, nor do I care to. You're on your own.

Teachers know part of their jobs is providing you with a form of childcare. No one is offended by that. However, it’s no one else’s responsibility but your own to provide for your kids if emergencies arise, pandemics occur,etc.

Funny how the calculus suddenly changes when it's teachers that need child care. Then, it is up to MCPS to make sure they have time to get it. Lol.

The alternative was that teachers didn’t work. And that pissed DCUM off.

IT IS ALSO BAD IF OTHER PEOPLE CAN'T WORK. TEACHERS ARE NOT THE ONLY IMPORTANT PEOPLE IN THE WORLD.

If teachers quit, who watches all the children?

It doesn't matter because the women have already left the workforce so we're good.

Most teachers are women so that makes sense.

If childcare access is key to women’s ability to work, childcare through school is the easiest way to provide access, AND most teachers are women, there is going to have to be childcare for teachers. Otherwise, teachers who are mothers will drop out of the workforce and school as childcare won’t be possible.

I'm not against child care for teachers but remember, that's not my problem anymore than child care for nurses, doctors, paramedics, grocery store workers, and all the other people that have made our lives possible over the past year and change is teachers' problem.

At this point, you can get child care. The issue is with pay, with two kids its not worth paying for child care vs. teaching. Comparing doctors and nurses to paramedics, grocery store workers is not comparable as huge income differences. It didn't pay for me to work with one child/child care given what my take home would be. I didn't drop out due to covid but before as cost/benefit wasn't there for me to work. It shouldn't cost me money to work.

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS got a boat load of money this year and next in addition to their regular budget. Teachers in MoCo make a pretty good living with amazing benefits. Enough with the “schools are underfunded”. It does not apply to MCPS.

Teachers are well paid in MCPS. However, with child care centers being $2K a month, its a stretch for one child and probably more than their take home with two kids and they earn too much for a voucher. So, its either home day care or stay home at that point, which is what I faced when I was a county employee. It would have cost us more for me to work than to stay home. That's why you see so many women dropping out of the work force.

[Anonymous]

Dcum "if you don't like your job you should just quit. Teachers are so lazy and selfish"


Also DCUM "a bunch of teachers quit and now there are a ton of job openings. Teachers are lazy and stupid"

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My teacher friend just retired early. And I don't blame her--she's not teaching summer school and she's not going back next year.

When you find out you are only a childcare worker, and people really don't care about their kids learning or about the teacher / childcare worker's health, why bother?

Why not retire early? Find another career? Do something people actually seem to value and don't scream at you over? Plenty of jobs out there now.

Oh can it with the child care thing. Do you not like it that women work outside the home? Or is your self-esteem just based entirely on being "more" than a lowly child care worker? I'm sorry that it offends you that the existential threat to women's careers associated with virtual learning is a problem for many families. Maybe have some perspective? Because I support teachers, I think they deserve better pay and more funding for school supplies and less bureaucracy, but as a woman who WOH and respects child care teachers, you lost me on this one.

It's not the school districts responsibility to deal with your childcare issues. What if your child fell seriously ill and couldnt attend school? What if a global pandemic happened and schools closed? Oh wait...

Right, still losing me. Why is it surprising that parents don't care about teachers, when teachers clearly don't care about parents? Oh, you're going to lose your job because you can no longer work without child care, and there were already severe child care shortages before the pandemic so it's not easy to find someone to care for your children? Not only is it not my problem, but IT'S OFFENSIVE TO ME THAT THIS IS STRESSFUL FOR YOU?"

It doesn't matter how many times you say "you're losing me." The fact is that it is not the school district's responsibility to warehouse your children for you in buildings while you work, at all times and in all world conditions. You don't like that. That's a You Problem.

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It doesn't matter how many times you say "you're losing me." The fact is that it is not the school district's responsibility to warehouse your children for you in buildings while you work, at all times and in all world conditions. You don't like that. That's a You Problem.

DP. It's always weird to read, on DCUM, when a self-identified teacher describes school as "warehousing your children for you in buildings."