What do teachers want?

[Anonymous]

So this article


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/29/us/teacher-union-school-reopening-coronavirus.html?referringSource=articleShare

Seems to say that not only do teachers not want to reopen schools they want to limit live instruction because they are afraid that their houses will not look great or they won’t be “at their personal best.”

I am going to look beyond this since if true is ridiculous - every office worker in America has had to zoom from home and not be at their best. Let’s instead ask: teachers, how should school line done this fall? What is the best we can do for our children under the circumstances ?

I am sick of hearing about what you don’t want and want to hear about what you want and how it should go.

[Anonymous]

This article also said "A July poll found that 60 percent of parents supported delaying school reopenings until the virus is under control. Polls show that Black and Latino families, who have suffered disproportionately from the pandemic, have expressed more concern about returning to school than white parents have, but are also more worried about the academic and social impacts of online learning." It's not just teachers driving the delayed return to in-person schooling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This article also said "A July poll found that 60 percent of parents supported delaying school reopenings until the virus is under control. Polls show that Black and Latino families, who have suffered disproportionately from the pandemic, have expressed more concern about returning to school than white parents have, but are also more worried about the academic and social impacts of online learning." It's not just teachers driving the delayed return to in-person schooling.

Hi - did you read my post? I don’t want to hear about what we shouldn’t do. Please restrict your posting to constructive suggestions. Thank you. I am mad too but there are lots of threads about what one is not happy with already.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This article also said "A July poll found that 60 percent of parents supported delaying school reopenings until the virus is under control. Polls show that Black and Latino families, who have suffered disproportionately from the pandemic, have expressed more concern about returning to school than white parents have, but are also more worried about the academic and social impacts of online learning." It's not just teachers driving the delayed return to in-person schooling.

Well in this area in NOVA, the majority of families said they would choose to go in person (from surveys in Arlington, Fairfax, and Falls Church). The schools couldn’t make it happen because of lack of staff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This article also said "A July poll found that 60 percent of parents supported delaying school reopenings until the virus is under control. Polls show that Black and Latino families, who have suffered disproportionately from the pandemic, have expressed more concern about returning to school than white parents have, but are also more worried about the academic and social impacts of online learning." It's not just teachers driving the delayed return to in-person schooling.

Well in this area in NOVA, the majority of families said they would choose to go in person (from surveys in Arlington, Fairfax, and Falls Church). The schools couldn’t make it happen because of lack of staff.

Most of those surveys were done in June though. Information has changed and so have the opinions of many parents.

[Anonymous]

What teachers want is for everyone to stay home and wear a freaking mask if you HAVE to go out, and don’t let your teens or young adults go out, or to parties, or the beach, and then we can beat this.

[Anonymous]

"Some critics see teachers’ unions as trying to have it both ways: reluctant to return to classrooms, but also resistant in some districts to providing a full day of remote school via tools like live video — the kind of interactive, online instruction that many parents say their children need after watching them flounder in the spring."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What teachers want is for everyone to stay home and wear a freaking mask if you HAVE to go out, and don’t let your teens or young adults go out, or to parties, or the beach, and then we can beat this.

Doing all that. For real.
What do they want for education in the mean time while we wait for infection rates to go down?

[Anonymous]

Like any teacher is going to engage in this openly hostile post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This article also said "A July poll found that 60 percent of parents supported delaying school reopenings until the virus is under control. Polls show that Black and Latino families, who have suffered disproportionately from the pandemic, have expressed more concern about returning to school than white parents have, but are also more worried about the academic and social impacts of online learning." It's not just teachers driving the delayed return to in-person schooling.

Hi - did you read my post? I don’t want to hear about what we shouldn’t do. Please restrict your posting to constructive suggestions. Thank you. I am mad too but there are lots of threads about what one is not happy with already.

There are lots of threads already about DL.

Agree with other pp. teachers want mask wearing, social distancing until there’s a vaccine.

[Anonymous]

The problem is: teachers don't want to risk getting sick so want DL. DL is double the work, and they don't want that either. But them is the breaks.

[Anonymous]

I don’t read this thread as hostile. I am a teacher but am frustrated by what feels like a lack of cooperation from unions around school this fall. I want:

1. To be back in the classroom this fall with masks, clear guidance for students, smaller classes

Since this is looking unlikely, I would like DL to run close to a normal school day but with very clear grading policies and the ability to hold students accountable. It will be very difficult for me to work from home (which I hate) and put in maximum effort if students have no accountability. The spring was brutal because kids didn’t have to come to class or do work so I was planning for maybe 20% of my class to show up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t read this thread as hostile. I am a teacher but am frustrated by what feels like a lack of cooperation from unions around school this fall. I want:

1. To be back in the classroom this fall with masks, clear guidance for students, smaller classes

Since this is looking unlikely, I would like DL to run close to a normal school day but with very clear grading policies and the ability to hold students accountable. It will be very difficult for me to work from home (which I hate) and put in maximum effort if students have no accountability. The spring was brutal because kids didn’t have to come to class or do work so I was planning for maybe 20% of my class to show up.

Same, but my union isn’t the one fighting against a full day full week DL. We haven’t even tried negotiating it yet. It’s parents pushing back against 6 hours on Zoom.

[Anonymous]

Ugh, Op here. Please. Thank you to a pp who tried to suggest something. Please, tell me what dL day should look like in teachers’ thoughts. How will it be structured? How will homework be graded? What can parents do to help either their own kids or kids in their class?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Some critics see teachers’ unions as trying to have it both ways: reluctant to return to classrooms, but also resistant in some districts to providing a full day of remote school via tools like live video — the kind of interactive, online instruction that many parents say their children need after watching them flounder in the spring."

This is hilarious, as these threads are full of parent screeching "MY PRECIOUS BEBE CAN'T HANDLE 3/4/5 HOURS A DAY ON ZOOM!!!"