Teachers who have been DL for a year - tell us what you haven't had to put up with

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Anonymous wrote:People put way too much on schools. Schools cannot be parents. If your child is depressed for whatever reason, it is your responsibility to get them help. If they miss their friends, it is your job to find safe ways to socialize. Schools are for academics. That is their role. If your kid is sad, bored, misses her friends, that's your job to help her. It's not her school's job.

Whew so either you're not a teacher or you didn't pay attention in any of our classes where they went over the multiple social roles of public education.

Nope. Teachers I know want to teach. Not be social workers, counselors and other roles that should exist outside of school. Your kid has mental health issues? Go find a counselor. Your kid needs to socialize? Go call some friends.

Yup. It is absolutely not the teacher’s role to be a counselor, a social liaison, or an entertainer. As a parent, you are exclusively responsible for your own children. Find a therapist, socialize with your children, encourage them to zoom with their friends or do outdoor activities. Those things have nothing to do with education.

I’m honestly confused by this argument. I get that, right now, schools are closed and kids are home either with their parents or caretakers (or alone), but in normal times, a lot of kids spend more waking hours during the week at school, after school, or on sports teams than they do with their own parents. So how can you possibly say that schools have no social responsibility to help shape and look out for kids?

Their role is to educate. And, right now we are in a pandemic and kids are DL, so now you should be spending more time with your kids as they are home more. Times have changed.