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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most teachers would be better off financially if furloughed. Currently, teachers can’t get unemployment over the summer because they aren’t unemployed technically. Furlough teachers and not only they will get 10 months of unemployment, but two extra months of income. And DCUM likes to remind teachers that they are too lazy, stupid, and incompetent to be hired for anything else so it should be easy to recertify eligibility each month.

Meanwhile teachers won’t be spending on supplies and snacks for their students.

What’s the financial downside again?[/quote]
Yeah, I'd love to collect that pandemic unemployment plus $600. I would literally make more money doing nothing than teaching your kids packed into a filthy, unventilated school. I don't know who you think ultimately pays the cost of unemployment, but surprise! It's tax payers.

You aren't going to win this. If teachers lose their jobs, your child will receive less instruction than they did before. You know who that one teacher would be, posting worksheets? The most senior person in the school, so the person least technologically adept and the least likely to care. They definitely would not be available for questions, complaints, or comments, and there would be no synchronous learning. You think firing all her colleagues would inspire this one teacher to suddenly provide your child and 100 others with a world class education? Get real. She would be looking for an out.

If I were furloughed, I would take it as a sign that it was just time to leave the profession. There aren't a lot of perks in education, but job security is one of them.[b] I would absolutely take my M.S. and go elsewhere. [/b]I work with students with disabilities, in a position that has a huge problem with attrition. [b]I am rated highly effective. I'm young and computer literate and I can easily take my skills elsewhere.[/b] Good luck finding someone to replace me after the furlough-we currently have 10+ vacancies at my school, but I'm sure there are many other passionate educators waiting with bated breath to step in.
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LOL. Go for it. Good luck. [/quote]

If we transition to distance learning and teachers quit, wouldn't that still be ok because we need fewer teachers anyway? 
I value our teachers but the one thing I do not understand is why they are untouchable. [b]Every other profession has some risk right now [/b]so why not teachers? I'm not wishing this for them but we can't protect just one profession. They aren't more essential than doctors or nurses and in some areas, they are suffering and nobody bails them out.

I'm pretty sure most teachers won't walk. If most schools are DL, where are they going? Eventually it all works out so teachers either accept what's going on or not.

That said, I do not think they should have to return to work if there is still a high risk of catching the virus. I think they need flexibility in doing zoom classes since they have kids at home and I think they need support from the districts to adjust to this new way of teaching.

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I have one relative who works for State Farm and was told no return until Jan 2021. I have another relative who works for a MD brewery and was told no return to office was necessary. His job is now 100% telework. He may be allowed to visit vendors in September if there’s not a second wave in this region. A third relative works for the state. Very tentative return in September, but it will be one day a week max to minimize who is in the office. And a friend who works for a shipping company was told no return until after 12/31.[/quote]

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