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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think about quitting every few weeks but I am a single parent so I can't. It's been wonderful to be in person this year but the behaviors are just so out there. It is draining. We found out today that we are getting a half day on December 23rd and I felt such relief that I almost cried. Lots of teachers are on the edge.[/quote]

Would you mind elaborating? I hear this a lot - that students are not well behaved this year and the class is hard to control. But why do you think that is? I know it probably has something to do with the stress of covid (sick family members, job loss, routine changes etc) but what do you think in particular is causing this? Also why is it that teachers all want to quit? Asking not to criticize but to see what we should be advocating for (I know better salaries of course but trying to understand what else). What about student behavior? What do students need for things to get better? [/quote]

It's far beyond "not well behaved" and "hard to control".  Listen, in my school we have a kindergarten room that has regularly needed 3-4 additional adults in the room because so many kids are displaying behaviors similar to what you might see in a psychiatric facility for children.  I don't know what the hell happened when kids were home, but it wasn't anything good.  Teachers want to quit it is emotionally and physically exhausting.  Honestly, what students and schools need?  No one will ever be willing to pay for.  [/quote]

Well many of these kids had both parents working outside the home and were entrusted to a MS or HS kid who has their own DL to do. And were plopped in front of a screen 7 hours a day.   It’s like teachers don’t get that FCPS is 1/3 FARMS.  They seem to believe every parent has a SAHM who could sit their with their kid and do school all day.

[b]What happened at home?  Parents were doing their jobs, dealing with multiple kids, dealing with elderly parents, cobbling together sunstandard childcare on a day to days basis, losing jobs, getting sick, being evicted[/b]….[/quote]

+100[/quote]

So were teachers who are also parents.  Did you forget that part?[/quote]

Teachers at least were working from home. What about families where both parents were working outside of the home? Not all of us were able to work from home last year, PP. We were lucky enough to have a responsible family member who took the year off of college to nanny and support our kids while they were DL but not everyone was so fortunate or has the money to pay for full time childcare. [/quote]

[b]Many of us weren’t. [/b]I am a private high school teacher and I worked in-person all last year. Both of my children were virtual, however, and I often had to check in with them on my phone between classes. My spouse tried to work nights as much as possible to limit our children being alone. Yet, with all of last year’s stress, I am quite comfortable saying this year is worse. That, hopefully, is a statement that explains how hard this year is.[/quote]

+1  Two teacher household and we went into our buildings to teach every day. We had the option and neither of us were going to stay home all day. We would have gone crazy not getting out and seeing other people.[/quote]

1.  That was a choice, not a requirement
2.  If you made that choice and left kids home alone all day to DL when you didn’t have to, people would call you a crappy parent. And they would be right.

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