Maryland Recovery Plan for Education has been posted

[Anonymous]

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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.

Or we are in that situation with our own jobs. It's not fine, but not everyone posting just wants kids out of their hair to telework productively. Many parents also are being asked to make choices where safety and staying employed are mutually exclusive, for ourselves and our kids, before September. I'm sorry. I know it's scary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Or we are in that situation with our own jobs. It's not fine, but not everyone posting just wants kids out of their hair to telework productively. Many parents also are being asked to make choices where safety and staying employed are mutually exclusive, for ourselves and our kids, before September. I'm sorry. I know it's scary.

There have been four deaths of students’ family members in my classroom already and I only have ten students. It’s upsetting that some people want to pretend this is a harmless cold that people are being dramatic about.
I’m sure you want to “telework productively” but no, I don’t particularly want to die so you can achieve that goal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As one of the posters, I think there are two categories of concerns from the teachers:

1) that we will go back 100% as normal, with risks to our health or those of our vulnerable family members
2) that we will go back in such a way that we work many more hours than before

+1

Also, I kind of liked the tent idea. I would teach summer school (or in fall if it's not too cold) in the tent from this video: https://www.today.com/video/could-the-way-schools-are-reopening-in-denmark-be-a-model-for-the-us-82511429694. It is nicer than many of the classrooms I've taught in. It's directly outside the school building - not in the middle of nowhere. Seems safe, close to bathrooms, no risk of sunburn. Start early in the morning and open the tent flaps if we need a cross breeze.

I think there would be large swaths of the year where the tent would be usable. Even if it's a little hot or cold, it seems better than no school or packing the kids back into overcrowded, poorly ventilated, stuffy rooms.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Or we are in that situation with our own jobs. It's not fine, but not everyone posting just wants kids out of their hair to telework productively. Many parents also are being asked to make choices where safety and staying employed are mutually exclusive, for ourselves and our kids, before September. I'm sorry. I know it's scary.

There have been four deaths of students’ family members in my classroom already and I only have ten students. It’s upsetting that some people want to pretend this is a harmless cold that people are being dramatic about.
I’m sure you want to “telework productively” but no, I don’t particularly want to die so you can achieve that goal.

No, I don't want to telework productively. I can't wait to go back to work, hopefully it looks like I will be able to do so in a few weeks according to my employer. I want my kids to go to school, because I want them to be educated. As much as I disagree with Trump on almost everything, I agree with his saying that the cure can't be worse than the disease itself, especially so because I think most of us will get infected anyway. By shutting down everything, we get tens of millions of jobless families on top of that. We just need to make sure the whole healthcare system is not collapsed, but other than that there should not be overreaction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Or we are in that situation with our own jobs. It's not fine, but not everyone posting just wants kids out of their hair to telework productively. Many parents also are being asked to make choices where safety and staying employed are mutually exclusive, for ourselves and our kids, before September. I'm sorry. I know it's scary.

There have been four deaths of students’ family members in my classroom already and I only have ten students. It’s upsetting that some people want to pretend this is a harmless cold that people are being dramatic about.
I’m sure you want to “telework productively” but no, I don’t particularly want to die so you can achieve that goal.

No, I don't want to telework productively. I can't wait to go back to work, hopefully it looks like I will be able to do so in a few weeks according to my employer. I want my kids to go to school, because I want them to be educated. As much as I disagree with Trump on almost everything, I agree with his saying that the cure can't be worse than the disease itself, especially so because I think most of us will get infected anyway. By shutting down everything, we get tens of millions of jobless families on top of that. We just need to make sure the whole healthcare system is not collapsed, but other than that there should not be overreaction.

Which hospital do you work in?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Or we are in that situation with our own jobs. It's not fine, but not everyone posting just wants kids out of their hair to telework productively. Many parents also are being asked to make choices where safety and staying employed are mutually exclusive, for ourselves and our kids, before September. I'm sorry. I know it's scary.

There have been four deaths of students’ family members in my classroom already and I only have ten students. It’s upsetting that some people want to pretend this is a harmless cold that people are being dramatic about.
I’m sure you want to “telework productively” but no, I don’t particularly want to die so you can achieve that goal.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Or we are in that situation with our own jobs. It's not fine, but not everyone posting just wants kids out of their hair to telework productively. Many parents also are being asked to make choices where safety and staying employed are mutually exclusive, for ourselves and our kids, before September. I'm sorry. I know it's scary.

There have been four deaths of students’ family members in my classroom already and I only have ten students. It’s upsetting that some people want to pretend this is a harmless cold that people are being dramatic about.
I’m sure you want to “telework productively” but no, I don’t particularly want to die so you can achieve that goal.

No, I don't want to telework productively. I can't wait to go back to work, hopefully it looks like I will be able to do so in a few weeks according to my employer. I want my kids to go to school, because I want them to be educated. As much as I disagree with Trump on almost everything, I agree with his saying that the cure can't be worse than the disease itself, especially so because I think most of us will get infected anyway. By shutting down everything, we get tens of millions of jobless families on top of that. We just need to make sure the whole healthcare system is not collapsed, but other than that there should not be overreaction.

Which hospital do you work in?

?? I'm not in healthcare.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Or we are in that situation with our own jobs. It's not fine, but not everyone posting just wants kids out of their hair to telework productively. Many parents also are being asked to make choices where safety and staying employed are mutually exclusive, for ourselves and our kids, before September. I'm sorry. I know it's scary.

There have been four deaths of students’ family members in my classroom already and I only have ten students. It’s upsetting that some people want to pretend this is a harmless cold that people are being dramatic about.
I’m sure you want to “telework productively” but no, I don’t particularly want to die so you can achieve that goal.

No, I don't want to telework productively. I can't wait to go back to work, hopefully it looks like I will be able to do so in a few weeks according to my employer. I want my kids to go to school, because I want them to be educated. As much as I disagree with Trump on almost everything, I agree with his saying that the cure can't be worse than the disease itself, especially so because I think most of us will get infected anyway. By shutting down everything, we get tens of millions of jobless families on top of that. We just need to make sure the whole healthcare system is not collapsed, but other than that there should not be overreaction.

Which hospital do you work in?

?? I'm not in healthcare.

Yes...that’s evident. Sorry, but you don’t get to decide which lives have merit and which should be sacrificed for the economy. I would hardly call 80,000 deaths in a few weeks just a minor event.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Or we are in that situation with our own jobs. It's not fine, but not everyone posting just wants kids out of their hair to telework productively. Many parents also are being asked to make choices where safety and staying employed are mutually exclusive, for ourselves and our kids, before September. I'm sorry. I know it's scary.

And you are okay with that?

[Anonymous]

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

If your child only met their teacher via distance learning, you’ve got bigger problems.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Or we are in that situation with our own jobs. It's not fine, but not everyone posting just wants kids out of their hair to telework productively. Many parents also are being asked to make choices where safety and staying employed are mutually exclusive, for ourselves and our kids, before September. I'm sorry. I know it's scary.

There have been four deaths of students’ family members in my classroom already and I only have ten students. It’s upsetting that some people want to pretend this is a harmless cold that people are being dramatic about.
I’m sure you want to “telework productively” but no, I don’t particularly want to die so you can achieve that goal.

No, I don't want to telework productively. I can't wait to go back to work, hopefully it looks like I will be able to do so in a few weeks according to my employer. I want my kids to go to school, because I want them to be educated. As much as I disagree with Trump on almost everything, I agree with his saying that the cure can't be worse than the disease itself, especially so because I think most of us will get infected anyway. By shutting down everything, we get tens of millions of jobless families on top of that. We just need to make sure the whole healthcare system is not collapsed, but other than that there should not be overreaction.

Which hospital do you work in?

?? I'm not in healthcare.

Yes...that’s evident. Sorry, but you don’t get to decide which lives have merit and which should be sacrificed for the economy. I would hardly call 80,000 deaths in a few weeks just a minor event.

Huh? Who is deciding which lives have merit blah blah. Reading comprehension?? Go read one more time.

[Anonymous]

Also, the proprietor of that bicycle shop seems pretty cool. Maybe he can watch you kid?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Or we are in that situation with our own jobs. It's not fine, but not everyone posting just wants kids out of their hair to telework productively. Many parents also are being asked to make choices where safety and staying employed are mutually exclusive, for ourselves and our kids, before September. I'm sorry. I know it's scary.

There have been four deaths of students’ family members in my classroom already and I only have ten students. It’s upsetting that some people want to pretend this is a harmless cold that people are being dramatic about.
I’m sure you want to “telework productively” but no, I don’t particularly want to die so you can achieve that goal.

No, I don't want to telework productively. I can't wait to go back to work, hopefully it looks like I will be able to do so in a few weeks according to my employer. I want my kids to go to school, because I want them to be educated. As much as I disagree with Trump on almost everything, I agree with his saying that the cure can't be worse than the disease itself, especially so because I think most of us will get infected anyway. By shutting down everything, we get tens of millions of jobless families on top of that. We just need to make sure the whole healthcare system is not collapsed, but other than that there should not be overreaction.

Well said.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Or we are in that situation with our own jobs. It's not fine, but not everyone posting just wants kids out of their hair to telework productively. Many parents also are being asked to make choices where safety and staying employed are mutually exclusive, for ourselves and our kids, before September. I'm sorry. I know it's scary.

And you are okay with that?

Uh, no. I posted the above. I said it's not fine, it's scary, and I'm sorry. So I'm not okay with it. But it's not an issue of asking teachers to take risks that parents don't have to. I think some posters are being unfair to teachers (as usual) but it's not helpful to assume the worst motivations of parents either.

[Anonymous]

The point is many parents are in the same boat as teachers, except teachers are pretending they can work from home, while many parents are being forced to go back out there or lose wages. It’s a bad situation for a lot of people, not just teachers. But everyone has to be subject to the same consequences.