Teachers are Vital Public Servants and Should Act Like It

[Anonymous]

Couldn't agree with this more. Its time to step up and help out the students who have been out of the classroom for almost a year now.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/25/teachers-are-vital-public-servants-time-them-start-acting-like-it/

[Anonymous]

Amen. They are acting like vital public servants in most areas of the country. Just not here for some reason.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Couldn't agree with this more. Its time to step up and help out the students who have been out of the classroom for almost a year now.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/25/teachers-are-vital-public-servants-time-them-start-acting-like-it/

F off. Where did you type this from your couch while you WFH?

Teachers are working their butts off. I'm sitting hear listening to the most patient person in the world explain to 25 6 year olds how to do their math test on line. Its absurd they have to take a test on DL. Brace yourself for DCPS to say that kids are failing in math.

BTW my kid can do all the first grade math - but he guessed on the whole test because its an app.

My sister is a 4th grade teacher. She cries at 4 pm every day because she can't be there in person for her kids. Not one child in her class is returning in person. NOT ONE PARENT wants to put their kids at risk like that. BTW she's fully vaccinated tomorrow.

She's been doing this for a year - making cards for her kids and mailing them out (with her money not the school's); doing one on ones; working all day sunday on her day off to create age appropriate lessons.

F you for thinking teachers aren't working and doing their best.

I'm sorry you have such a sad life.

I emailed my kid's first grade teacher a virtual hug. It's hard and I can hear in her voice how hard it is for her.

We have one child doing DL in a car -guess what his poor mom doesn't want to put her kid in harms way either. BTW he's participating and learning - I'm hearing it right now.

F you

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Couldn't agree with this more. Its time to step up and help out the students who have been out of the classroom for almost a year now.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/25/teachers-are-vital-public-servants-time-them-start-acting-like-it/

F off. Where did you type this from your couch while you WFH?

Teachers are working their butts off. I'm sitting hear listening to the most patient person in the world explain to 25 6 year olds how to do their math test on line. Its absurd they have to take a test on DL. Brace yourself for DCPS to say that kids are failing in math.

BTW my kid can do all the first grade math - but he guessed on the whole test because its an app.

My sister is a 4th grade teacher. She cries at 4 pm every day because she can't be there in person for her kids. Not one child in her class is returning in person. NOT ONE PARENT wants to put their kids at risk like that. BTW she's fully vaccinated tomorrow.

She's been doing this for a year - making cards for her kids and mailing them out (with her money not the school's); doing one on ones; working all day sunday on her day off to create age appropriate lessons.

F you for thinking teachers aren't working and doing their best.

I'm sorry you have such a sad life.

I emailed my kid's first grade teacher a virtual hug. It's hard and I can hear in her voice how hard it is for her.

We have one child doing DL in a car -guess what his poor mom doesn't want to put her kid in harms way either. BTW he's participating and learning - I'm hearing it right now.

F you

You come off completely unhinged. Sorry to hit such a raw nerve but it is a very accurate assessment of a few destroying the credibility of many.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Couldn't agree with this more. Its time to step up and help out the students who have been out of the classroom for almost a year now.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/25/teachers-are-vital-public-servants-time-them-start-acting-like-it/

Sure. How are we doing on air cleaners, PPE, contact tracing, testing, and safe lunch plans? Last I checked, teachers weren't capable of implementing those things.

If you make it SAFE, they will COME.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Couldn't agree with this more. Its time to step up and help out the students who have been out of the classroom for almost a year now.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/25/teachers-are-vital-public-servants-time-them-start-acting-like-it/

Sure. How are we doing on air cleaners, PPE, contact tracing, testing, and safe lunch plans? Last I checked, teachers weren't capable of implementing those things.

If you make it SAFE, they will COME.

Oh? Teachers are the best judge of that? So they're not essential but they're omniscient? No wonder they're acting crazy lately.

[Anonymous]

Couldn't agree more. OPEN MCPS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Couldn't agree with this more. Its time to step up and help out the students who have been out of the classroom for almost a year now.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/25/teachers-are-vital-public-servants-time-them-start-acting-like-it/

Sure. How are we doing on air cleaners, PPE, contact tracing, testing, and safe lunch plans? Last I checked, teachers weren't capable of implementing those things.

If you make it SAFE, they will COME.

New demands...vaccinations have been prioritized..why? to get the teachers back in the classroom.

[Anonymous]

Teachers unions and, in some places teachers themselves, are the biggest obstacle to children returning to school. While the fear is understandable, the unwillingness to do right by children is not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Couldn't agree with this more. Its time to step up and help out the students who have been out of the classroom for almost a year now.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/25/teachers-are-vital-public-servants-time-them-start-acting-like-it/

F off. Where did you type this from your couch while you WFH?

Teachers are working their butts off. I'm sitting hear listening to the most patient person in the world explain to 25 6 year olds how to do their math test on line. Its absurd they have to take a test on DL. Brace yourself for DCPS to say that kids are failing in math.

BTW my kid can do all the first grade math - but he guessed on the whole test because its an app.

My sister is a 4th grade teacher. She cries at 4 pm every day because she can't be there in person for her kids. Not one child in her class is returning in person. NOT ONE PARENT wants to put their kids at risk like that. BTW she's fully vaccinated tomorrow.

She's been doing this for a year - making cards for her kids and mailing them out (with her money not the school's); doing one on ones; working all day sunday on her day off to create age appropriate lessons.

F you for thinking teachers aren't working and doing their best.

I'm sorry you have such a sad life.

I emailed my kid's first grade teacher a virtual hug. It's hard and I can hear in her voice how hard it is for her.

We have one child doing DL in a car -guess what his poor mom doesn't want to put her kid in harms way either. BTW he's participating and learning - I'm hearing it right now.

F you

What if ANY of this rant discusses why teachers wont come back in the classroom? Clearly you didn't read the article

[Anonymous]

I really wish I could tell whether this article is wise advice or just another UMC professional working from home who is sick of having his children underfoot (I googled — he has two children). In this debate it is so hard to separate the message from the messenger. People are more than happy to embrace risk when it’s not a risk to them personally.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Couldn't agree with this more. Its time to step up and help out the students who have been out of the classroom for almost a year now.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/25/teachers-are-vital-public-servants-time-them-start-acting-like-it/

Sure. How are we doing on air cleaners, PPE, contact tracing, testing, and safe lunch plans? Last I checked, teachers weren't capable of implementing those things.

If you make it SAFE, they will COME.

Oh? Teachers are the best judge of that? So they're not essential but they're omniscient? No wonder they're acting crazy lately.

If we as a society can provide a safe workplace, they will return.

The only crazies here are the ones pushing to open schools NOW regardless of safety.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Couldn't agree with this more. Its time to step up and help out the students who have been out of the classroom for almost a year now.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/25/teachers-are-vital-public-servants-time-them-start-acting-like-it/

Sure. How are we doing on air cleaners, PPE, contact tracing, testing, and safe lunch plans? Last I checked, teachers weren't capable of implementing those things.

If you make it SAFE, they will COME.

Oh? Teachers are the best judge of that? So they're not essential but they're omniscient? No wonder they're acting crazy lately.

If we as a society can provide a safe workplace, they will return.

The only crazies here are the ones pushing to open schools NOW regardless of safety.

How many studies do you need to show schools can open in a low risk way? There are new ones out every day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I really wish I could tell whether this article is wise advice or just another UMC professional working from home who is sick of having his children underfoot (I googled — he has two children). In this debate it is so hard to separate the message from the messenger. People are more than happy to embrace risk when it’s not a risk to them personally.

That was my first impression. His job is writing opinions. Not really an expert on education or pandemics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I really wish I could tell whether this article is wise advice or just another UMC professional working from home who is sick of having his children underfoot (I googled — he has two children). In this debate it is so hard to separate the message from the messenger. People are more than happy to embrace risk when it’s not a risk to them personally.

That was my first impression. His job is writing opinions. Not really an expert on education or pandemics.

Fwiw my nurse friends feel the same way as him.