DL for years: How to prepare? What to do? Help me brainstorm.

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Oh come on like Target and Walmart employees are getting paid millions of dollars to go to their jobs. All teachers do is complain about low pay but it's a profession they chose.

Target and Walmart employees have gotten raises-https://corporate.target.com/press/releases/2020/06/target-increases-starting-wage-to-15-thanks-frontl#:~:text=Target%20set%20its%202020%20goal,in%20June%202019%20to%20%2413. -whereas teachers have taken paycuts. These employees also don't purchase materials for their jobs to the tune of hundreds of dollars a year or take any work home. They have limited interactions with customers, who are all required to wear masks (or they are kicked out of the store). We are being asked to go back to work in small, unventilated classrooms for seven hours a day without a break, with a group of children who we cannot force to wear a mask. That's not the same thing. They are not responsible for blowing noses, helping customers in the bathroom, tying shoes, wiping tears, or touching customers in any capacity.

Frankly, they also didn't take on student loans or work through six years of school to work there. Sorry, not the same job, not the same risks. If you want us to go to work, then give us hazard pay. Pay me for the prep periods and lunches you want to take away. Otherwise, I don't think so. I am not a servant

Wow. NP here. I have sympathy for your situation, but you seem to lack empathy for the employees at Target and WalMart. The raises that they are getting are minimal, and they are certainly taking on risk, especially since there are defiant and crazy customers who challenge masks and social distancing.

I don't think all teachers should have to return, but I think special education and early elementary teachers should be considered essential workers, the same way that doctors and nurses (also highly educated professionals) are. They're not getting raises because of COVID. And they, like those teachers, cannot effectively perform their jobs from home.

Where I live (in a low col area), teachers with the most experience are making $80-90k. So if they’re married to another teacher that’s a $160-180k hhi. Not “low pay.”

Yeah I don’t know how teachers are considered low pay but federal workers are always accused of being overpaid when on average they make about the same.