Private School Teachers are Scared

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:All of the private school parents I know have their children enrolled in travel sports and are traveling all over the country (including hot spots) just to arrive back in town before school starts and throw them all together. Temperature checks are really just providing a false sense of safety.

If parents are honest they will abide by quarantine rules. Schools should ask!

Hahaha. How precious. Clearly you've never taught school.

These are the same parents (and they are not the exception -- there is a core contingent of them in every grade EVERY year) who dope their kids up with Tylenol and send them to school with God knows what because "they had an important work meeting."

Any "honor" system is doomed to fail and is not in any way a valid option.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Private school teachers are about to be out of a job when their private schools go out of business due to lack of enrollment after this utter catastrophe

Public and privates are doing DL. I would rather be doing DL at our private with small classes and one on one time with advisors than be one of 30 in a public school class. I feel fortunate to be in DL at private now.

Huh? If it’s DL what difference does it matter if there are 10 or 30 kids? Public school kids are actually safer because they are home until the end of January.

You seriously are not asking this are you? There is a huge difference. I don’t know how your school is run but my child’s class is small and all 15 kids can see each other at once on the zoom screen so it feels like an actual classroom. They don’t need to scroll to the next page to see everyone. Secondly because there are only 15 of them per class room they all contribute to the conversation and get called on repeatedly during each class and it’s very interactive. If they Jane a question they raise their hand and get it answered. Smaller is better. Friends in public say the classes are too big and chaotic. My kids are doing dL as well at their school so they are safe.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Private school teachers are about to be out of a job when their private schools go out of business due to lack of enrollment after this utter catastrophe

Public and privates are doing DL. I would rather be doing DL at our private with small classes and one on one time with advisors than be one of 30 in a public school class. I feel fortunate to be in DL at private now.

Huh? If it’s DL what difference does it matter if there are 10 or 30 kids? Public school kids are actually safer because they are home until the end of January.

You seriously are not asking this are you? There is a huge difference. I don’t know how your school is run but my child’s class is small and all 15 kids can see each other at once on the zoom screen so it feels like an actual classroom. They don’t need to scroll to the next page to see everyone. Secondly because there are only 15 of them per class room they all contribute to the conversation and get called on repeatedly during each class and it’s very interactive. If they Jane a question they raise their hand and get it answered. Smaller is better. Friends in public say the classes are too big and chaotic. My kids are doing dL as well at their school so they are safe.

Hmm. Being able to see 15 kids on a Zoom (which is still a lot!) is most definitely not worth $40K. There is just really no difference between 15 kids on Zoom vs 25. Neither is effective.

[Anonymous]

f them. I’ve been going to my job at a hospital every work day to afford my kids’ tuition.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Private school teachers are about to be out of a job when their private schools go out of business due to lack of enrollment after this utter catastrophe

To be clear - the catastrophe here is the pandemic. If schools go under, it is because of the pandemic - not because of teachers, administrators, or county leaders.

The catastrophe is the teachers putting their histrionics ahead of all else and abandoning their students while apparently still expecting to get paid. Until this I had the utmost respect for teachers and supported them financially and emotionally whenever possible. No more. Thanks for nothing, private school teachers.

+1 They complained all through the spring and after summer they became too comfortable sitting in their pajamas all day and ordering Doordash. Turn off CNN and get to work for the children you've told us you loved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Private school teachers are about to be out of a job when their private schools go out of business due to lack of enrollment after this utter catastrophe

To be clear - the catastrophe here is the pandemic. If schools go under, it is because of the pandemic - not because of teachers, administrators, or county leaders.

The catastrophe is the teachers putting their histrionics ahead of all else and abandoning their students while apparently still expecting to get paid. Until this I had the utmost respect for teachers and supported them financially and emotionally whenever possible. No more. Thanks for nothing, private school teachers.

+1 They complained all through the spring and after summer they became too comfortable sitting in their pajamas all day and ordering Doordash. Turn off CNN and get to work for the children you've told us you loved.

OBvious troll is obvious.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone is scared. Teachers are not different than anyone else and I’m so tired of hearing about how THEY feel as if it trumps every other working member of society.

I don't think it's meant to trump anyone else, but just as a response to people demanding they return to work. I'm a lawyer and no one is demanding that I return to work (that I do my work, yes, but not that I do it in person). It's ridiculous.

Why are we demanding that firemen return to work? Policeman? Nurses?
Because some jobs can’t be done online. Teaching is one of them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a teacher and I think opening in person is unsafe. Not because I'm scared for myself, but because I think putting 500 bodies together will be a disaster, regardless if they are kids or adults. You can distance classrooms all you want, but during transition times kids are going to all be breathing the same air.

I understand your point, but you have not reviewed the plans of every private school in the area. Many are not planning to put 500 people in a building on a single day.

And many are admitting more and more new families as a wave of applicants from the public schools pour in. Private schools are a business. In the end, that is the priority.

[Anonymous]

News flash: everyone is scared to some degree. Many of us continue to work at our work sites as safely as possible. We wear masks, distance, wash hands, etc. We figure out our own childcare.

Why are teachers special/unique and exempt from doing their jobs and figuring out their own childcare?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:News flash: everyone is scared to some degree. Many of us continue to work at our work sites as safely as possible. We wear masks, distance, wash hands, etc. We figure out our own childcare.

Why are teachers special/unique and exempt from doing their jobs and figuring out their own childcare?

+1 so over threads like this.

[Anonymous]

The hypocrisy exhibited by complaining parents here is palpable. Are we really supposed to believe that you would favor DL if it were a better way for your child to learn/grow/thrive? You obviously are focused mainly on other, far less noble considerations. My daughter is an outstanding private school teacher, and her Zoom classes are all that and a bag of chips, but clearly not meeting your precious needs. But working remotely is fine and dandy for you. It’s just too much.

[Anonymous]

The point is-in no way should the privates be charging full tuition only to offer full DL at this time. Period. Full stop.

Teachers will do their best but simply cannot make it the same as in person school and to charge the same for an inherently inferior product is insane.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The hypocrisy exhibited by complaining parents here is palpable. Are we really supposed to believe that you would favor DL if it were a better way for your child to learn/grow/thrive? You obviously are focused mainly on other, far less noble considerations. My daughter is an outstanding private school teacher, and her Zoom classes are all that and a bag of chips, but clearly not meeting your precious needs. But working remotely is fine and dandy for you. It’s just too much.

I’m sure they are, but DL doesn’t work well for younger kids or many with special learning needs. It’s a poor substitute for in-person learning.

[Anonymous]

Frontline workers, grocery store workers, etc are scared too and have been raising attention to their situations. Just like teachers. ALL are suffering from not enough protective equipment and support. I love how these private school parents, most spending their days in the comfort and safety of their homes, tell teachers to suck it up.... others have it bad so you should be fine having it bad too and don't complain or advocate for yourself. What you should be doing with your time and resources is to advocate for all those in high exposure situations to have adequate protective measures and for overall measures to bring down community spread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Private school teachers are about to be out of a job when their private schools go out of business due to lack of enrollment after this utter catastrophe

But will they be alive to know they’re out of a job? That is the real question.