Maryland Recovery Plan for Education has been posted

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Anonymous wrote:How will they have the staff to cover lunches in classrooms and enough teachers to cover smaller classes spread out using MS space?

Teachers will have to give up their lunches.

Teachers will not give up their lunches. Sometimes that is the only time during the seven hours while we're at school that I can use the bathroom. I am not allowed to look at my cell phone (you get written up), open my laptop (even for work-we're expected to be "engaged" with the kids at all times), or leave the room for any reason (to wash hands, to fill a water bottle, to pee, etc) at school. The only time I can do these things is during my lunch period, or during a prep. Before COVID, we frequently lost our preps because of IEP meetings (in our own class or others that run over time), teacher absences (which will definitely only increase in frequency now), special events (like school-wide celebrations) and various other reasons. I am also not working all day with no break and no prep and going home to create lessons. Our pay is already abysmal for masters level professionals.

Furthermore, it's illegal for us to work all day without a break. If you work for more than 6 hours you are entitled to a minimum of 30 minutes for lucnh. I am absolutely not working all day without washing my hands even once (even before eating). I am absolutely not monitoring students when I need a break myself. I am not a robot and I deserve to do all the things you take for granted at work-call my doctor, text my husband, read the news for a few minutes, walk down the block and grab a coffee, eat lunch without having to break up a fight. We fought long and hard for our lunch break to be included in our contract, we are not giving it up now. Maybe parents can volunteer to come in and watch the kids! Each parent can come in once a month and if they can't cover the shift then they have to find another parent to do it in their absence. Parents are pushing for schools to open? Then make it feasible.

You sound charming. I’m a big teacher advocate but what exactly are you doing for your students now? If you hate teaching so much, leave it.

Working without a break has absolutely nothing to do with teaching. You are not a "big teacher advocate" if you think it's appropriate for us to give up our only break in the day. It's an extremely basic labor protection that is not specific to our profession-if you work for 6 hours, you get a 30 minute lunch break. I'm not going to be constantly fighting off kidney infections so I can babysit your children without pause. Get real. It has nothing to do with what I'm willing to "do for my students"-it would make administrators' lives easier, sure. You don't get to guilt me into saying that I'm fine being trapped in a room for seven hours without using the bathroom, checking my phone, or taking care of myself in the smallest way.

I’m not saying you should not have a break. Of course you should. But your anger seems to go way beyond that. I hope you’re nowhere near my kid.

Same here. My kids teachers are so sad abiut the year being canceled that they are trying to offer meeting kids in parking lots for distant hangouts etc. This person should just not be teaching.

That would never be allowed in most schools. That’s why the drive by teacher parades had to stop. Central office put a stop to all that. If your kids’ teachers teach in MCPS then they’re just plain dumb for offering to meet kids in parking lots. That’s the mark of an idiotic teacher who doesn’t understand boundaries , not a good one.

NP. I would certainly prefer a sincere teacher over you who understand the boundaries.

OK, so now you want teachers who don’t know how to understand boundaries? I’m so confused. You all constantly contradict yourselves.

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This has nothing to do with understanding the boundaries. A teacher kindly offers to do something nice, and if a kid/parent doesn't want to go, they don't go. And yet some other teacher calls this teacher idiot. This politically correct mentality make me sick in the stomach.

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By all means, take your child to a parking lot to meet someone they’ve been chatting with online.

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Anonymous wrote:This has nothing to do with understanding the boundaries. A teacher kindly offers to do something nice, and if a kid/parent doesn't want to go, they don't go. And yet some other teacher calls this teacher idiot. This politically correct mentality make me sick in the stomach.

Wait wait wait, what does "political correctness" have to do this?

I probably shouldn't even ask.

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Anonymous wrote:This has nothing to do with understanding the boundaries. A teacher kindly offers to do something nice, and if a kid/parent doesn't want to go, they don't go. And yet some other teacher calls this teacher idiot. This politically correct mentality make me sick in the stomach.

Wait wait wait, what does "political correctness" have to do this?

I probably shouldn't even ask.

Because this is a bit reminiscent of that which we see too often.

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Anonymous wrote:This has nothing to do with understanding the boundaries. A teacher kindly offers to do something nice, and if a kid/parent doesn't want to go, they don't go. And yet some other teacher calls this teacher idiot. This politically correct mentality make me sick in the stomach.

Actually, following stay at home orders put in place to protect public health has nothing to do with political correctness. Teachers should be modeling safe and appropriate decisions. We all know the kids would love to meet up and play. As adults we should be showing them restraint.

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Anonymous wrote:This has nothing to do with understanding the boundaries. A teacher kindly offers to do something nice, and if a kid/parent doesn't want to go, they don't go. And yet some other teacher calls this teacher idiot. This politically correct mentality make me sick in the stomach.

Actually, following stay at home orders put in place to protect public health has nothing to do with political correctness. Teachers should be modeling safe and appropriate decisions. We all know the kids would love to meet up and play. As adults we should be showing them restraint.

It's not playing, it's talking and giving them a sense of normalcy in a scary time. Some of you are beyond ridiculous. This teacher sounds awesome!

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Anonymous wrote:This has nothing to do with understanding the boundaries. A teacher kindly offers to do something nice, and if a kid/parent doesn't want to go, they don't go. And yet some other teacher calls this teacher idiot. This politically correct mentality make me sick in the stomach.

Wait wait wait, what does "political correctness" have to do this?

I probably shouldn't even ask.

Because this is a bit reminiscent of that which we see too often.

What do we see too often? Who is we?

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Anonymous wrote:This has nothing to do with understanding the boundaries. A teacher kindly offers to do something nice, and if a kid/parent doesn't want to go, they don't go. And yet some other teacher calls this teacher idiot. This politically correct mentality make me sick in the stomach.

Actually, following stay at home orders put in place to protect public health has nothing to do with political correctness. Teachers should be modeling safe and appropriate decisions. We all know the kids would love to meet up and play. As adults we should be showing them restraint.

It's not playing, it's talking and giving them a sense of normalcy in a scary time. Some of you are beyond ridiculous. This teacher sounds awesome!

Yes, meeting up with the kids in a parking lot and standing far apart with masks on will give them a real sense of normalcy.
Also, no one was name calling? We’re allowed to point out that something is a bad idea without someone having an emotional breakdown over it.

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Teachers on here saying that they don’t want to risk their lives so that “we” can work from home failed to grasp the reality that they don’t have work from home jobs. If they don’t want to go back to work then they will have to consider the same choices parents in this situation are faced with.

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Teachers have the same choice parents who can’t work from home have—go back and take the risk or take a leave of absence and hope they still have a job when things normalize. But it can’t be only parents having to make this choice.

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Anonymous wrote:Teachers have the same choice parents who can’t work from home have—go back and take the risk or take a leave of absence and hope they still have a job when things normalize. But it can’t be only parents having to make this choice.

You do realize the two aren’t mutually exclusive, right? Many teachers are also parents. Please stop trying to pit teachers and parents against each other as though people only fit in one category or the other.

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Anonymous wrote:Teachers on here saying that they don’t want to risk their lives so that “we” can work from home failed to grasp the reality that they don’t have work from home jobs. If they don’t want to go back to work then they will have to consider the same choices parents in this situation are faced with.

And parents who post things like this fail to grasp that it was a pandemic and the states who shut down schools, not teachers who decided they’d rather work from home. It isn’t about wanting to work from home. We doubt that any coherent plan to open schools will be put in place and yes, people will die. I know that’s fine with you because you’ve calculated your own risk as minimal. Other people might not be so cavalier about the suffering and loss of life going on around them.

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Anonymous wrote:This has nothing to do with understanding the boundaries. A teacher kindly offers to do something nice, and if a kid/parent doesn't want to go, they don't go. And yet some other teacher calls this teacher idiot. This politically correct mentality make me sick in the stomach.

Wait wait wait, what does "political correctness" have to do this?

I probably shouldn't even ask.

Because this is a bit reminiscent of that which we see too often.

What are you talking about? Are you high?

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Anonymous wrote:This has nothing to do with understanding the boundaries. A teacher kindly offers to do something nice, and if a kid/parent doesn't want to go, they don't go. And yet some other teacher calls this teacher idiot. This politically correct mentality make me sick in the stomach.

Actually, following stay at home orders put in place to protect public health has nothing to do with political correctness. Teachers should be modeling safe and appropriate decisions. We all know the kids would love to meet up and play. As adults we should be showing them restraint.

It's not playing, it's talking and giving them a sense of normalcy in a scary time. Some of you are beyond ridiculous. This teacher sounds awesome!

Yes, meeting up with the kids in a parking lot and standing far apart with masks on will give them a real sense of normalcy.
Also, no one was name calling? We’re allowed to point out that something is a bad idea without someone having an emotional breakdown over it.

My kid's K teacher did this. No masks. Just saw the kids outside for a bit after it was announced school was closed for the year and some kids were super upset about that. Totally harmless.

Why on earth would someone be against the idea of a kindhearted teacher trying to comfort little kids? I can't fathom.