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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]

There are some major differences, though. For example:

1. Office workers can do office work just as well at home as in the office, but teachers can't teach just as well over the Internet as at school.
2. Insurance companies and breweries are not essential functions of society that we all (even people who don't have children) depend on.

If this goes on with teachers, people are going to start wondering why the school district needs so many teachers. Or, really, any. Class size doesn't matter when you're teaching over the Internet and half of the kids aren't participating on any given day anyway. Might as well use the Rocketship Charter School model and just put up "individualized online learning modules" for everyone.

And state and local governments are already laying off employees. How long until it's teachers, too? [/quote]

1. [b]Online education was used by school-aged children all over the world pre-pandemic. The issue isn’t the method. [/b]

2. People absolutely rely on insurance companies so that they can get medical treatment, return damaged cars to the road to get to work, and repair roofs so they don’t end up losing the houses they buy to the elements. And restaurants and bars are relying on those breweries.

Teachers are already being laid off. Laid off beats dead. My children would rather have unemployed parents than dead ones.

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Who was using school over the Internet, before the pandemic?

It's hard for me to believe that a teacher is comparing insurance companies and breweries to [b]schools[/b]. But ok. If you'd rather lose your job than do your job, then you've made your choice.[/quote]

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