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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]School personnel  here --we are not babysitters.

I would love a 4-day week.  My cousin has taught in 2 districts with 4 days weeks -- no burnout, everyone loves it.

You are responsible for your own children.[/quote]

The law requires us to send our kids to school until they’re 16.

Kids go to school. Adults work. That’s how society works.

We’re not asking you to deal with our kids on the weekends. We’re asking you to provide an education for them during the goddamn workweek.[/quote]

See how good it did y’all to scream about ‘lazy’ teachers in 2020. You guys will never learn. [/quote]

See how calling parents idiots that do not care for their own children now has schools and teachers under a microscope?  We knew you were all bottom of the barrel prior to the pandemic, but seeing it on an endless loop in Zoom for almost two years was shocking to say the least.  
This is like all they eyes on bad policing -  we are in the process clearing out the bad apples.  [/quote]

DP.  I don't agree that teachers are 'bottom of the barrel', but I do think seeing school for 1.5 years did indeed make me (as a parent) much more concerned about my kids' education.

I also think hurling teacher v. parent insults (both sides) is not really going to get us anywhere.[/quote]

I worked even more hours during Covid trying to find out how to translate my curriculum to an online format. I watched a coworker conduct Chemistry labs by using common household items that students could gather at their laptops. I watched another perform an entire Shakespearean play online, complete with costumed students and creative student-made digital backgrounds. I watched a 3rd conduct court scenes, with online students prepared to be judges, lawyers, and jurors.

Perhaps it helps because I know how hard it was to take an existing curriculum and adapt it for an online format. What I saw was teachers going above and beyond to do just that. I also saw teachers take time to check in with their students, conducting extra office hours for academic (and emotional) support.

So while some posters here want to hurl “bottom of the barrel” comments about teachers, I’ll stick with what I know to be true. Teachers made the best of a crap situation.[/quote]

NP and I don’t at all think any of my kids’ teachers are bottom of the barrel. But I think most of those online gimmicks didn’t translate well to young learners. We tried online K for a few weeks before I ended up hiring a retired educator to come teach my child to read, take him on outdoor outings, and create other hands on learning experiences while we worked. He went into 1st grade well prepared and has subsequently tested very high and overall done well in school (I’ve volunteered in his class and still see some kids struggling to fully read in third grade).

If schools go down to 4 days I will 100% be finding a program or hiring someone to come do a combination of enrichment and athletic activities with him on the day off (possibly coordinating with other friends who can pay for this as well so our kids are with peers). Meanwhile there will be kids left home alone or on iPads while their parents work. Which would horrible for those families and society as a whole.[/quote]

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