Teachers Not Wanting to Go Back in Person
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Anonymous
I'm curious why the people having a much much better experience with DL aren't homeschooling in the first place. Or, if you are in a location that offer a virtual academy, why you weren't using that before, if you weren't. If NOT having your kid in in-person school is so much better for them, why did it take until the pandemic for you to see that? Without the pandemic, would you just have opted for a worse learning experience for your children? |
Anonymous
This also sounds like it was written by someone in a classroom all day. So that's 1) a student, 2) a teacher. I'm betting a teacher, because what high schooler refers to people as "knuckleheads." |
Anonymous
+1 So tired of teachers who are pretending they're office workers. They're not, and there are fewer jobs than they think which can effectively be done at home. Guarantee they just don't like being lumped in with nurses, slaughterhouse workers, grocery workers, etc. who actually have to go in. The teachers have all seen the test scores by now. They know they're not doing an okay job of DL. |
Anonymous
Literally every profession has had deaths this year. Frankly, it doesn't sound like a high number for educators compared to others. |
Anonymous
NYC public schools shut down before March 17, so if the dates are right, this was unrelated. |
Anonymous
Also, while the death mentioned here is tragic, that was before we knew enough about COVID to know and implement effective mitigation strategies. No one responsible is recommending that schools open at full-capacity with no masks, FFS. Every decision around opening right now is made with a cost-benefit analysis, and the costs of indefinite remote learning are high for far too many children. |
Anonymous
What are you talking about??? We AREN'T homeschooling. We are sending our kids to school via DL. Our kids are learning with their teachers via DL. Your kids could, too, if you would do your job as a parent and 1) make sure your kid is set up for success with appropriate structure, and 2) change your mindset to reflect a positive attitude. YOU ARE YOUR KID'S DL PROBLEM, not DL and teachers. Change your attitude and your kid's outcome will change, too. I am not teaching my kids. Their teachers are...via DL. How can you not understand that??? |
Anonymous
I'm a teacher who just turned in my PLP about 10 minutes ago. According to the data from an outside testing source, MAP, 78% of my students showed growth of at least 1 point or more. I've been helping other teachers with their PLPs, too. We are all showing growth of 1 point or more on the two MAPs from this year. So your statement is factually incorrect. |
Anonymous
DP. We were thinking about it before the pandemic. Quality of instruction was fine, and still is, but classroom management took up a lot of time that could've been spent on learning. Now that we've seen that our kids can handle virtual instruction, we are seriously considering the private K12 option for next year. It's less expensive than in person private and they can do sports and other social activities with their friends. |
Anonymous
People with positive attitudes shout and denigrate others this much on the Internet? Weird. |
Anonymous
Perhaps you are an outlier. The aggregate DC data shows significant declines. |
Anonymous
lol it's like the other side of toxic positivity |
Anonymous
You're kind of escalated for someone who professes such a positive attitude. Maybe settle down some? Also, your reading comprehension isn't great, and your logic is non-existent. 1) I didn't say you were homeschooling. I asked why you didn't before, if in-person school hurts your kids so much. 2) I didn't complain about DL, or talk about my kids at all. I didn't talk about my mindset, so I'm not sure why you think you know what it is. You have complained above about other kids in in-person school that were hurting your kids' education (e.g., " knuckleheads who are acting out and needing attention"). Those kids were there before the pandemic. You didn't care then, apparently, or at least enough to homeschool. Why do you care now? Did you not care about your kids' education before, and now you do? I'm curious about your new lack of interest in your kids' education. What will you do when the pandemic ends? Will you subject your kids to the knuckleheads again? |
Anonymous
NYC public schools had 30 teachers and 49 deaths of staff by the middle of May 2020. That sounds pretty high for a profession that does not absolutely need to be in-person. Yes, it is better in-person, but not better enough to risk teachers lives. https://abc7ny.com/teacher-deaths-doe-department-of-education-schools/6173896/
After schools closed, the teachers were required to attend in-person training in schools with other teachers and school board staff to learn how they were going to be conducting distance learning. It was during this training that the teacher was infected. March 17, the teachers were sent a notice in the early hours of the morning instructing them not to report to school and that further instructions would be pending. It wasn't until later that they learned that there was a positive Covid-19 case from one of the teachers. From other teachers, this teacher had been careful and had not left her place since school closed down except to report to work as required. |
Anonymous
| Will any of the teacher-to-teacher transmission stories be pertinent after everyone that is able to can get vaccinated? |