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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because those conferences should happening right now, like they have every other year.  These kids are basically getting a full week off of school. I thought they were really concerned about catching kids up from last year.  That week is now a wash.[/quote]

Right now they should be more concerned with teacher burnout. It's real. And while other surrounding counties are doing things to accommodate the mental health and well-being of their teachers, MCPS is piling on more responsibility. [/quote]

Is this for real?  What do you think burnout is like in other professions?  Nurses, truck drivers, law enforcement, retail, restaurant workers?  Anyone who has been working in person during this pandemic.  Are teachers somehow more ‘special’?

Teachers worked from home for over a year.  [/quote]

NP- Burn out is real is all those professions that you named and the folks responsible for employing them are having to make accommodations and do things in order to keep their employees happy and working.  So its not that teachers are more special, its that  teachers are the same, everyone takes their job for granted until they throw their hands up and say to hell with it, I’m taking my talents elsewhere.  People forget that teachers are parents also.  Teachers have lives outside also.  So again, its not that teachers view themselves as more special, but that many a parent, especially here on DCUm seems to view themselves and their circumstances as more special.[/quote]

DP, but I think part of what people are reacting to is that (1) unlike the other areas listed, teachers (at least here) did NOT work in-person for much of the pandemic and (2) [b]parents were given SO little grace around having to work and simultaneously assist their kids with the hell that was Zoom school.[/b]  So, frankly, there's not much left in the tank, especially not when teachers' unions actively worked to keep remote education as long as it was.  I get that teachers are exhausted.  We are ALL exhausted.  It would have been great if we could have been more understanding a year ago instead of just screaming about how school wasn't daycare and we should watch our own [bleeping] kids.[/quote]

PP- I hear ya and don’t disagree on the whole.  But I think the bolded of your post illustrates exactly what was said in my post, which is that people forget teachers are workers and parents also.  Teachers also had to work and simultaneously assist their kids on Zoom or try to find childcare, they weren’t exempt for the struggle. They aren’t exempt from the struggle now.  And even states where teachers went back experienced the chaos of quarantines and hybrid teaching and are now dealing with learning loss.  Its not sunshine and roses everywhere that teachers went back sooner.
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I don’t forget that teachers are parents and workers.  I just expect that they would make accommodations for childcare or leave the same way other professionals are expected to do.  I know too many teachers IRL who said that school isn’t childcare, etc., and heard too much push-back from the teachers’ union to bend over backwards to accommodate them.  For what?  I can’t think of any other profession that expects so much accommodation.  I get that teachers are burned out and exhausted.  We all are.

At the end of the day, I care less that this day is off than I do about the short notice.  That’s what screws people over, and working families most of all.  But let’s be real, we know that “school isn’t childcare” is just a dog whistle for contempt for working mothers.  It would be great if people could be honest about that.[/quote]

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