Burgundy Farm

[Anonymous]

During last night's meeting 2 board members and HOS told parents to stop complaining on social media. This does not have the effect of making parents want to stop complaining on social media.

Meanwhile, ACDS provided reopening metrics and clear and empathic communication:
https://myemail.constantcontact.com/ACDS-Decision-on-Fall-Opening.html?soid=1110525170107&aid=NQzJnIVX0us
https://files.constantcontact.com/bb155709201/fb1a0e4d-981d-4dfb-a808-070111ff0dab.pdf
https://acdsnet.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Head-of-School-Update-August-6.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:During last night's meeting 2 board members and HOS told parents to stop complaining on social media. This does not have the effect of making parents want to stop complaining on social media.

Meanwhile, ACDS provided reopening metrics and clear and empathic communication:
https://myemail.constantcontact.com/ACDS-Decision-on-Fall-Opening.html?soid=1110525170107&aid=NQzJnIVX0us
https://files.constantcontact.com/bb155709201/fb1a0e4d-981d-4dfb-a808-070111ff0dab.pdf
https://acdsnet.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Head-of-School-Update-August-6.pdf

We were also told that the best method of addressing issues is addressing them directly with the persons involved. I tried that. Sent an email with concerns and questions. No response.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:During last night's meeting 2 board members and HOS told parents to stop complaining on social media. This does not have the effect of making parents want to stop complaining on social media.

Meanwhile, ACDS provided reopening metrics and clear and empathic communication:
https://myemail.constantcontact.com/ACDS-Decision-on-Fall-Opening.html?soid=1110525170107&aid=NQzJnIVX0us
https://files.constantcontact.com/bb155709201/fb1a0e4d-981d-4dfb-a808-070111ff0dab.pdf
https://acdsnet.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Head-of-School-Update-August-6.pdf

We were also told that the best method of addressing issues is addressing them directly with the persons involved. I tried that. Sent an email with concerns and questions. No response.

Each group is going to get a private meeting with the Jeff & Elizabeth. Everyone needs to chill and work toward coming up with solutions instead of continuing to complain. If you read through the plans again, they are actually quite thoughtful. It is a measured approach, and how can we reasonably argue with that, IF the plan is really to get the kids on campus in October? We do need that assurance, I will grant you that.

I truly believe that the board and administration want to work with us. They need our help. It's time to come together.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The situation at Burgundy is entirely the responsibility of the HOS and not at all at the feet of teachers. Teachers spent the last several months trying to get administrators to work with them to plan for the fall. There is no safe plan for in-person school at this point because the admin didn't collaborate with the experts - the teachers - on how to implement school on campus. It's disgusting that teachers are being thrown under the bus. They aren't lazy. Virtual learning requires significantly more work, especially when trying to apply a progressive lens to it. I agree that it's a very difficult ask to charge $35K in tuition for virtual learning, especially when the appeal of Burgundy is the campus. The mistake is laying this at the feet of teachers. It's inaccurate and unjustified.

I agree and I will defend our teachers. I think it's just a few vocal bad apples on this thread who are blaming teachers. I admit that I was initially frustrated when I heard that the on-campus plans changed at the last minute because of staffing issues. However, I didn't understand the whole story at the time.

To all the Burgundy teachers: our children adore you, and we love you! Thank you for all you do, and I am so, so sorry that you are in this position. The vast majority of us do not feel the way as these few bad apples.

I like the teachers but I do not think they have gone about this the right way. They were on task forces. They have agency. They saw all the emails and comms from the school about the intent to be back in-person full time. They could have spoken up earlier and collaborated more. They could have contributed to the solutions. They could have suggested plans.

Being on a task force and having access to communications is not equivalent to having agency. Speaking up and being heard and respected are also not the same thing. Unfortunately they did do all of the things you mention and their efforts were not respected or legitimately acknowledged until they all spoke as one. And getting to that place is not easy in any situation, especially when you want to have faith that your leadership will do the right thing and make clear decisions. For a faculty to come together and speak against the school’s decision making is very rare. We are used to putting the needs of others above our own always. Even negotiating salaries is seen as selfish in this profession. So making the choice as a group to speak out after being disenfranchised is a big deal. And not one they took lightly, whatsoever.

[Anonymous]

It is a measured approach, and how can we reasonably argue with that, IF the plan is really to get the kids on campus in October? We do need that assurance, I will grant you that.

But why would that happen? Experts are predicting things will get worse in the fall in terms of COVID, not better. It's just not a realistic plan. If they couldn't do it now, aren't they LESS likely to do it in October?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The situation at Burgundy is entirely the responsibility of the HOS and not at all at the feet of teachers. Teachers spent the last several months trying to get administrators to work with them to plan for the fall. There is no safe plan for in-person school at this point because the admin didn't collaborate with the experts - the teachers - on how to implement school on campus. It's disgusting that teachers are being thrown under the bus. They aren't lazy. Virtual learning requires significantly more work, especially when trying to apply a progressive lens to it. I agree that it's a very difficult ask to charge $35K in tuition for virtual learning, especially when the appeal of Burgundy is the campus. The mistake is laying this at the feet of teachers. It's inaccurate and unjustified.

I agree and I will defend our teachers. I think it's just a few vocal bad apples on this thread who are blaming teachers. I admit that I was initially frustrated when I heard that the on-campus plans changed at the last minute because of staffing issues. However, I didn't understand the whole story at the time.

To all the Burgundy teachers: our children adore you, and we love you! Thank you for all you do, and I am so, so sorry that you are in this position. The vast majority of us do not feel the way as these few bad apples.

I like the teachers but I do not think they have gone about this the right way. They were on task forces. They have agency. They saw all the emails and comms from the school about the intent to be back in-person full time. They could have spoken up earlier and collaborated more. They could have contributed to the solutions. They could have suggested plans.

Being on a task force and having access to communications is not equivalent to having agency. Speaking up and being heard and respected are also not the same thing. Unfortunately they did do all of the things you mention and their efforts were not respected or legitimately acknowledged until they all spoke as one. And getting to that place is not easy in any situation, especially when you want to have faith that your leadership will do the right thing and make clear decisions. For a faculty to come together and speak against the school’s decision making is very rare. We are used to putting the needs of others above our own always. Even negotiating salaries is seen as selfish in this profession. So making the choice as a group to speak out after being disenfranchised is a big deal. And not one they took lightly, whatsoever.

Thank you for the Confirmation that the teachers banded together and refused to go to work. Right here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The situation at Burgundy is entirely the responsibility of the HOS and not at all at the feet of teachers. Teachers spent the last several months trying to get administrators to work with them to plan for the fall. There is no safe plan for in-person school at this point because the admin didn't collaborate with the experts - the teachers - on how to implement school on campus. It's disgusting that teachers are being thrown under the bus. They aren't lazy. Virtual learning requires significantly more work, especially when trying to apply a progressive lens to it. I agree that it's a very difficult ask to charge $35K in tuition for virtual learning, especially when the appeal of Burgundy is the campus. The mistake is laying this at the feet of teachers. It's inaccurate and unjustified.

I agree and I will defend our teachers. I think it's just a few vocal bad apples on this thread who are blaming teachers. I admit that I was initially frustrated when I heard that the on-campus plans changed at the last minute because of staffing issues. However, I didn't understand the whole story at the time.

To all the Burgundy teachers: our children adore you, and we love you! Thank you for all you do, and I am so, so sorry that you are in this position. The vast majority of us do not feel the way as these few bad apples.

I like the teachers but I do not think they have gone about this the right way. They were on task forces. They have agency. They saw all the emails and comms from the school about the intent to be back in-person full time. They could have spoken up earlier and collaborated more. They could have contributed to the solutions. They could have suggested plans.

Being on a task force and having access to communications is not equivalent to having agency. Speaking up and being heard and respected are also not the same thing. Unfortunately they did do all of the things you mention and their efforts were not respected or legitimately acknowledged until they all spoke as one. And getting to that place is not easy in any situation, especially when you want to have faith that your leadership will do the right thing and make clear decisions. For a faculty to come together and speak against the school’s decision making is very rare. We are used to putting the needs of others above our own always. Even negotiating salaries is seen as selfish in this profession. So making the choice as a group to speak out after being disenfranchised is a big deal. And not one they took lightly, whatsoever.

I hate this comment about being used to putting others ahead of us. I have spent the past 5 months working my ass off while overseeing my kids schooling while continuing to pay for a school that is not delivering the services I had paid for. I have put everything ahead of me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

It is a measured approach, and how can we reasonably argue with that, IF the plan is really to get the kids on campus in October? We do need that assurance, I will grant you that.

But why would that happen? Experts are predicting things will get worse in the fall in terms of COVID, not better. It's just not a realistic plan. If they couldn't do it now, aren't they LESS likely to do it in October?

Not a chance we are going back in person until maybe January or February.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The situation at Burgundy is entirely the responsibility of the HOS and not at all at the feet of teachers. Teachers spent the last several months trying to get administrators to work with them to plan for the fall. There is no safe plan for in-person school at this point because the admin didn't collaborate with the experts - the teachers - on how to implement school on campus. It's disgusting that teachers are being thrown under the bus. They aren't lazy. Virtual learning requires significantly more work, especially when trying to apply a progressive lens to it. I agree that it's a very difficult ask to charge $35K in tuition for virtual learning, especially when the appeal of Burgundy is the campus. The mistake is laying this at the feet of teachers. It's inaccurate and unjustified.

I agree and I will defend our teachers. I think it's just a few vocal bad apples on this thread who are blaming teachers. I admit that I was initially frustrated when I heard that the on-campus plans changed at the last minute because of staffing issues. However, I didn't understand the whole story at the time.

To all the Burgundy teachers: our children adore you, and we love you! Thank you for all you do, and I am so, so sorry that you are in this position. The vast majority of us do not feel the way as these few bad apples.

I like the teachers but I do not think they have gone about this the right way. They were on task forces. They have agency. They saw all the emails and comms from the school about the intent to be back in-person full time. They could have spoken up earlier and collaborated more. They could have contributed to the solutions. They could have suggested plans.

Being on a task force and having access to communications is not equivalent to having agency. Speaking up and being heard and respected are also not the same thing. Unfortunately they did do all of the things you mention and their efforts were not respected or legitimately acknowledged until they all spoke as one. And getting to that place is not easy in any situation, especially when you want to have faith that your leadership will do the right thing and make clear decisions. For a faculty to come together and speak against the school’s decision making is very rare. We are used to putting the needs of others above our own always. Even negotiating salaries is seen as selfish in this profession. So making the choice as a group to speak out after being disenfranchised is a big deal. And not one they took lightly, whatsoever.

Thank you for the Confirmation that the teachers banded together and refused to go to work. Right here.

Did not say that whatsoever. Please bold the part that states teachers refused to come to work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As I type this I’m sitting here watching my kids soccer coach facilitate a socially distanced soccer practice with masks and outdoor practice and all kids are staying 6 feet apart. My soccer coach is showing more resilience and creativity and commitment than my overpriced school...

How long is soccer practice? Is it 8 hours? Do the kids take off their masks to eat 30 minutes of lunch next to them? Do they use any materials beyond a soccer ball? Are there other adults around to help supervise? Do they have a large open outdoor area to spread out? Is soccer cancelled with it is dangerous weather? Does the soccer coach teach them from 6 feel away how to hold a pencil? This is ridiculous.

These excuses and questions are ridiculous. excuses to get out of teaching. I used to think teachers were so special. Especially at Burgundy. Just full of excuses.

People like you and the other jerks on this thread are why I am leaving the teaching profession as soon as this pandemic is over. I am an award-winning educator with years of experience and an advanced degree. I absolutely LOVE my job - I love curriculum, working with the students, all the parts that are actually teaching. Every teacher I know worked double time all spring to re-plan every single lesson to make them as engaging as possible. All while being given zero time to prepare and next to no resources from our school.

This summer we had professional development, but it was next to useless. The time we spent completing busy work for that PD would have been better spent preparing amazing DL lessons for the fall. But we couldn’t do that, because no one was willing to admit that DL was a possibility. Instead the admin just kept insisting that we would be in person, so all of my time this summer was spent re-designing my curriculum to fit the new schedule that we will have in the fall (specifically for in-person COVID learning), accommodate social distancing, and the million other tiny things that end up necessitating huge changes to the curriculum: attempting to prevent spread by not using paper, no more art or lab supplies, no more communal classroom supplies, additional class time needed to sanitize, being outside whenever possible... the list goes on and on.

Now, we were just told last week that we will be DL (at least at the start of the year). I can give up my entire summer to re-plan for one scenario, but there was literally not enough time to recreate two new plans for both scenarios. Teachers are in a hopeless situation. The reality is that every job you people keep bringing up is completely different from being trapped in a room with fifteen kids all day. Even with masks, they aren’t perfect. And having to constantly watch and enforce mask protocol is yet another thing that will be taking me away from teaching. Our HVAC system sucks. Grocery store workers deal with tons of people every day, but the amount of time they are exposed to each potentially infectious individual is small - that affects the likelihood of transmission in a huge way. Truck drivers and delivery people - not trapped in a room with potentially viral people all day. Office workers - last I checked, not trapped in a 30x30 foot room with 15 kids for the entire day. There aren’t many other jobs I can think of that place workers in this uniquely worrisome situation.

What I’ve seen on these threads is just heartbreaking. I am in this for the kids, but I wonder how much they’ll get out of my teaching if they overhear the awful things their parents say about their teachers. I hate knowing that so many parents think teachers are just lazy, think we deserve special treatment, think that schools just shut down because of teachers (newsflash: my school didn’t take a formal measure of what the faculty wanted even once, and I know no one talked to me. It’s not about the teachers). The things teachers are bringing up aren’t just empty excuses - they are real issues. And it is just so frustrating, because I know that the in-person experience is going to be awful compared to regular school. When kids are kept apart from each other all day, no opportunities for hands-on learning, I can’t actually get close enough to them to directly help them with anything - this is not a situation that allows for any of the progressive teaching practices that I’ve spent years learning about implementing. It’s going to suck, because it’s an impossible situation, and teachers are going to get blamed for that too. We will make it as awesome as we can, but it will never be the same as regular in-person learning (cue the parents chiming in and telling me that if I was just a better / more creative / more innovative teacher, that I’d find a way).

And, what makes this even more frustrating, is that if anyone had listened to the teachers and acknowledged at the start of the summer that DL was a very real possibility, we could have spent the summer investing our resources into DL, and making it incredible. There is so much research on online learning environments that is really exciting, but we are just turning a blind eye. I spent so much time on Zoom with my students this spring, and it was so cool getting to know them as individuals in their home environments. We could really be taking advantage of this year, but instead, we’re going to force everyone into school for a learning experience that isn’t possible right now.

Can’t wait to move on to another career after everything I’ve read here. I will deeply miss my work with the kids, but it just isn’t worth it when I know what all the parents really think of teachers. We’re just lazy, expendable, fear-mongering babies in your eyes.

Good because schools like Burgundy have made me rethink the relevance and need of school entirely.

[Anonymous]

Now, we were just told last week that we will be DL (at least at the start of the year). I can give up my entire summer to re-plan for one scenario, but there was literally not enough time to recreate two new plans for both scenarios. Teachers are in a hopeless situation. The reality is that every job you people keep bringing up is completely different from being trapped in a room with fifteen kids all day. Even with masks, they aren’t perfect. And having to constantly watch and enforce mask protocol is yet another thing that will be taking me away from teaching. Our HVAC system sucks. Grocery store workers deal with tons of people every day, but the amount of time they are exposed to each potentially infectious individual is small - that affects the likelihood of transmission in a huge way. Truck drivers and delivery people - not trapped in a room with potentially viral people all day. Office workers - last I checked, not trapped in a 30x30 foot room with 15 kids for the entire day. There aren’t many other jobs I can think of that place workers in this uniquely worrisome situation.

Well, it may not be exactly the same, but let's not quibble about the enormous risk that many occupations are currently exposed to including:

Law enforcement
Military
Health care
Amazon fulfillment
Meat packing and processing
Social workers
Occupational and speech therapists

I know you think you are special, but a lot of people are dealing with risk right now - including me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Now, we were just told last week that we will be DL (at least at the start of the year). I can give up my entire summer to re-plan for one scenario, but there was literally not enough time to recreate two new plans for both scenarios. Teachers are in a hopeless situation. The reality is that every job you people keep bringing up is completely different from being trapped in a room with fifteen kids all day. Even with masks, they aren’t perfect. And having to constantly watch and enforce mask protocol is yet another thing that will be taking me away from teaching. Our HVAC system sucks. Grocery store workers deal with tons of people every day, but the amount of time they are exposed to each potentially infectious individual is small - that affects the likelihood of transmission in a huge way. Truck drivers and delivery people - not trapped in a room with potentially viral people all day. Office workers - last I checked, not trapped in a 30x30 foot room with 15 kids for the entire day. There aren’t many other jobs I can think of that place workers in this uniquely worrisome situation.

Well, it may not be exactly the same, but let's not quibble about the enormous risk that many occupations are currently exposed to including:

Law enforcement
Military
Health care
Amazon fulfillment
Meat packing and processing
Social workers
Occupational and speech therapists

I know you think you are special, but a lot of people are dealing with risk right now - including me.

Again, explain to me how any of those careers are the same as the risks associated with teaching? I’ll be trapped in a room full of kids with poor ventilation, kids who will probably be wearing their masks incorrectly. I’m not in a giant warehouse, I’m in a small classroom with fifteen kids. I have family members who are social workers and they will be seeing one client at a time, with masks, client removed if they don’t comply with the mask, and plexiglass between them and others.

If you worked in an office that turned out to have a serious asbestos issue, or black mold growing everywhere, or some sort of health risk like that, you would be well within your legal rights to refuse going in until the workplace is a safe environment again. It is not unreasonable to want to teach out of the classroom until rapid test results and reduced test costs are available. Teachers and students should be tested twice a week at minimum - temperature checks are functionally useless, especially when you factor in the parents that will inevitably give their kid a Tylenol before leaving for school. On some other boards, there are already parents at schools that are reopening in the hybrid model who are complaining about the restrictions placed on their activities at home - they already said their plans are to continue doing what they want, in large groups, with the “don’t ask, don’t tell” mentality. All it takes is a handful of families who think this way, combined with a lack of testing, to create a serious issue. NOT the same at all as those other professions you listed.

[Anonymous]

Now, we were just told last week that we will be DL (at least at the start of the year). I can give up my entire summer to re-plan for one scenario, but there was literally not enough time to recreate two new plans for both scenarios. Teachers are in a hopeless situation. The reality is that every job you people keep bringing up is completely different from being trapped in a room with fifteen kids all day. Even with masks, they aren’t perfect. And having to constantly watch and enforce mask protocol is yet another thing that will be taking me away from teaching. Our HVAC system sucks. Grocery store workers deal with tons of people every day, but the amount of time they are exposed to each potentially infectious individual is small - that affects the likelihood of transmission in a huge way. Truck drivers and delivery people - not trapped in a room with potentially viral people all day. Office workers - last I checked, not trapped in a 30x30 foot room with 15 kids for the entire day. There aren’t many other jobs I can think of that place workers in this uniquely worrisome situation.


Well, it may not be exactly the same, but let's not quibble about the enormous risk that many occupations are currently exposed to including:

Law enforcement
Military
Health care
Amazon fulfillment
Meat packing and processing
Social workers
Occupational and speech therapists

I know you think you are special, but a lot of people are dealing with risk right now - including me.


Again, explain to me how any of those careers are the same as the risks associated with teaching? I’ll be trapped in a room full of kids with poor ventilation, kids who will probably be wearing their masks incorrectly. I’m not in a giant warehouse, I’m in a small classroom with fifteen kids. I have family members who are social workers and they will be seeing one client at a time, with masks, client removed if they don’t comply with the mask, and plexiglass between them and others.

If you worked in an office that turned out to have a serious asbestos issue, or black mold growing everywhere, or some sort of health risk like that, you would be well within your legal rights to refuse going in until the workplace is a safe environment again. It is not unreasonable to want to teach out of the classroom until rapid test results and reduced test costs are available. Teachers and students should be tested twice a week at minimum - temperature checks are functionally useless, especially when you factor in the parents that will inevitably give their kid a Tylenol before leaving for school. On some other boards, there are already parents at schools that are reopening in the hybrid model who are complaining about the restrictions placed on their activities at home - they already said their plans are to continue doing what they want, in large groups, with the “don’t ask, don’t tell” mentality. All it takes is a handful of families who think this way, combined with a lack of testing, to create a serious issue. NOT the same at all as those other professions you listed.

You are right, your job is really dangerous and every job I listed is really safe. I mean, I am definitely NOT behind a plexiglass shield with calm, compliant clients - I work with the mentally ill and homeless popultation, but you are exposed to so much risk and I am exposed to none. You are very special and people who work in meatpacking plants are much better off than you for sure.

Don't go to work, teach from home, that is your right if the school supports it. I'm actually fine with that. What I am not fine with is what a special flower you consider yourself to be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

It is a measured approach, and how can we reasonably argue with that, IF the plan is really to get the kids on campus in October? We do need that assurance, I will grant you that.

But why would that happen? Experts are predicting things will get worse in the fall in terms of COVID, not better. It's just not a realistic plan. If they couldn't do it now, aren't they LESS likely to do it in October?

The October date was given to appease parents for one more month.
It’s a continuation of the ruse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Now, we were just told last week that we will be DL (at least at the start of the year). I can give up my entire summer to re-plan for one scenario, but there was literally not enough time to recreate two new plans for both scenarios. Teachers are in a hopeless situation. The reality is that every job you people keep bringing up is completely different from being trapped in a room with fifteen kids all day. Even with masks, they aren’t perfect. And having to constantly watch and enforce mask protocol is yet another thing that will be taking me away from teaching. Our HVAC system sucks. Grocery store workers deal with tons of people every day, but the amount of time they are exposed to each potentially infectious individual is small - that affects the likelihood of transmission in a huge way. Truck drivers and delivery people - not trapped in a room with potentially viral people all day. Office workers - last I checked, not trapped in a 30x30 foot room with 15 kids for the entire day. There aren’t many other jobs I can think of that place workers in this uniquely worrisome situation.


Well, it may not be exactly the same, but let's not quibble about the enormous risk that many occupations are currently exposed to including:

Law enforcement
Military
Health care
Amazon fulfillment
Meat packing and processing
Social workers
Occupational and speech therapists

I know you think you are special, but a lot of people are dealing with risk right now - including me.


Again, explain to me how any of those careers are the same as the risks associated with teaching? I’ll be trapped in a room full of kids with poor ventilation, kids who will probably be wearing their masks incorrectly. I’m not in a giant warehouse, I’m in a small classroom with fifteen kids. I have family members who are social workers and they will be seeing one client at a time, with masks, client removed if they don’t comply with the mask, and plexiglass between them and others.

If you worked in an office that turned out to have a serious asbestos issue, or black mold growing everywhere, or some sort of health risk like that, you would be well within your legal rights to refuse going in until the workplace is a safe environment again. It is not unreasonable to want to teach out of the classroom until rapid test results and reduced test costs are available. Teachers and students should be tested twice a week at minimum - temperature checks are functionally useless, especially when you factor in the parents that will inevitably give their kid a Tylenol before leaving for school. On some other boards, there are already parents at schools that are reopening in the hybrid model who are complaining about the restrictions placed on their activities at home - they already said their plans are to continue doing what they want, in large groups, with the “don’t ask, don’t tell” mentality. All it takes is a handful of families who think this way, combined with a lack of testing, to create a serious issue. NOT the same at all as those other professions you listed.

You are right, your job is really dangerous and every job I listed is really safe. I mean, I am definitely NOT behind a plexiglass shield with calm, compliant clients - I work with the mentally ill and homeless popultation, but you are exposed to so much risk and I am exposed to none. You are very special and people who work in meatpacking plants are much better off than you for sure.

Don't go to work, teach from home, that is your right if the school supports it. I'm actually fine with that. What I am not fine with is what a special flower you consider yourself to be.

????? I don’t consider myself to be a special flower. Anyone in any other position should be asking their workplaces to provide protections as well. Why are you so bitter about this? Why are you assuming that teachers think they’re so special? It just seems like you’re bitter about the fact that the schools made a decision that will happen to keep teachers and students safer, even though I’m certain they made the call to prevent liability.