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Are you seriously asking why kids need a formal education, OP?

Let me guess, you are a teacher?

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I am not a teacher and I am not "seriously asking why kids need a formal education."  I am asking why it is such a hardship for UMC kids to attend school in person this fall in the middle of a contagious pandemic that is killing thousands of people daily, when those children have many options and resources to help mitigate the loss of a formal schooling program.  I am realizing that this is not about hardship for the kids.  The kids will be fine, some maybe even happier.  It is about the incredibly selfish parents who don't want the h[b]assle of putting together an alternative plan[/b].  [/quote]

The HASSLE of putting together an alternative plan?  I don’t understand how teachers can both take the position that they are a highly specialized professional, but think that parents should be able to slip into that role instantly, with no professional training, all while we maintain our other full time jobs.

And while I’m at it, I don’t understand how teachers can claim they are such highly specialized professionals, and that they were all putting in twelve hour days from March 13 through the end of the school year, but their work product was total shit.  Either they barely put any effort in- hence the shit work product from teachers.  Or they put in twelve hour days for three months, and they are lower functioning than their peers in other professional Jobs (who mostly managed to Successfully shift to remote work within a week Of Covid with no major impact on our work product or complaints from clients) - hence the shit work product from teachers.  When I hear teachers talk about how hard they slaved this spring, I am mostly embarrassed for them. [/quote]

Ha, best description so far, +1000000[/quote]

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