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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Something has to change with public education. Either we figure out a better way to align public school schedules and calendars with the usual work day, or we accept that full access to public education requires either extensive family help, a stay at home parent, or household employees. The current school calendar simply has too many stops and start, days off, early dismissals, and inclement weather days that strain families and contribute to bad feelings toward teachers.

On the flip side, teaching is a unique profession in that there is so little downtime during a school day that it takes a toll in the way that many other professions do not. A natural way to address teachers' overload might be to have longer breaks more frequently rather than so many stops and starts. However, this would require good faith on behalf of [b]teachers' unions[/b], meaning that if there are regular 1-2 week breaks built into the school calendar, person leave for non-essentials needs to be limited.

As a general observation, I continue to be put off by the tone of [b]teachers' unions[/b] and their blackmail of administrators and families. This is what many of us thought (well, probably knew) would happen. Instead of being grateful that the safety of those who work in school buildings were protected at the expense of children, these union members are not strained by the natural consequences of that safety, including student misbehavior and problems adjusting, so they demand that they be allowed to give students  If the pandemic justified giving children less, shouldn't there be a time when those who benefitted from having their safety assured step up to give more?  That might have to be working the week of Thanksgiving. [/quote]

In VA they don’t have teachers unions.[/quote]

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