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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teachers are lazyAF.

They just want to sit at home on their couches and still get paid what they normally would. Totally taking advantage of the situation.[/quote]

You have got to be a teenager. Do your parents know you are spending time on DCUM posting idiotic, nasty comments?[/quote]

Crass response, but kind of true.  I don’t think teachers are lazy individually, but as a whole with their union advocating, absolutely.  The rest of the country will be back to work in June, July, August.  But teachers get to stay home, collect the same pay for no where near full time work, until their is a covid vaccine and zero cases?  I don’t think so.  If that is what unions are lobbying for, I hope this is the beginning of the end of unions.  [/quote]
We do not get paid for the summer. We are paid a ten month salary spread out over twelve months. You want me to work two additional months? Okay. Then you’re going to have to pay me for it (proportionally-not a small lump sum) and we are going to need to negotiate vacation time. Teachers don’t have vacation time built into our contracts outside of the schools breaks. We already worked spring break without compensation. I’m not an indentured servant. You don’t seem to understand that teaching is a job and not a charity. [/quote]

No one is talking about teachers teaching through summer. [b]Let's not pretend you are working 40 hrs per week for "distance learning" while schools aren't closed now and if they stay closed in the fall[[/b]/quote]

If you really want to get technical about compensating teachers for their time worked, the fewer hours we have worked over the past seven weeks, is more than made up for the HOURS and HOURS that teachers spends beyond their contract hours at all other times. During normal times, Spread out over a 12 month year, I easily work double my contract hours. So don’t bellyache about teachers temporarily getting a break. My guess is that most people working from home now, aren’t really working the same number of hours that they do in an office, and of course there’s all the people on unemployment making the same if not more than they did when they were working. So why all the ire for teachers, who in normal times work an OBSCENE amount of hours? 
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You know almost everyone making a salary works more than 40 hrs per week.  They don't get every single weekend, holiday, day it snows more than a couple inches, and summer off either.  Some teachers are working a couple hours PER WEEK right now.  Distance learning in most districts is a sad effort and not at all comparable to the education of a normal school day.  Most people that are working from home, are in fact, still working comparable hours to their in-office jobs.  Not only have many teachers not been working 40 hrs per week for the past 7+ weeks, but they plan to drag out not going back to work (and not working much at all) for another 6+ months.  This isn't in the best interest of children and their education, which is what teachers are supposed to be advocates for.[/quote]

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