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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a NYC teacher, I am absolutely disgusted by the behavior of parents since the second shutdown on the 18th. If the community wanted open schools then they had a responsibility to keep the virus under control. We’re currently averaging almost 2,000 new cases a day in the city. We just had the day with the most deaths since may this past week. We haven’t even seen the impact of the holiday on the data yet.

Furthermore, there were 3,002 COVID cases among staff and students in the few weeks we were open and 9% of all school buildings were shutdown due to outbreaks the day we closed. Yet parents keep posting “schools are safe! Follow the science! Teachers can’t read!” I’ve read that NYC teachers are “the lepers of our society” and that we are “abandoning their children” and on and on. This is the thanks we get for putting ourselves at risk to open up for their children. I hope that we are DL at least through the new year. I already went to my doctor to get a medical exemption to stay home from now on, and many colleagues have said they’ll do the same now. This isn’t worth it, especially as cases continue to rise and the city threatens to reopen anyway. Any sympathy I had for these parents is gone after reading this vitriol. [/quote]

Teacher here too and I agree. I was ready to go back at any point since I know how hard this is for children . But I have also decided it’s not worth it after receiving so much hate from parents. It has crushed my love of teaching unfortunately. I’m fairly certain someone will now respond that I’m weak to let parent hate crush my passion but please don’t until you’ve walked a mile in our shoes.[/quote]

A bad teacher is a bad teacher and parents will be upset by those.  However, you have a select group who cannot handle their kids so they are angry schools are closed.  I'd like more live teaching and more assignments, especially in math but I can see a lot of benefits to DL and all of our teachers are trying very hard.  The same parents screaming about teachers not willing to go back are probably parents who are living their lives as normal not willing to make any sacrifices but expect others too.  You don't want to be in the same building with those kids as your risk from them goes up greatly.

If they could segregate families who are staying home/behaving responsibly with teachers doing the same, it could work.  And, then put the entitled families in another group/school and the essential workers kids in another.[/quote]

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