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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, the teachers want safety precautions in place to return.  I would never begrudge them that.  My issue right now is other parents.  I have several friends that are teachers and they are working harder than they ever have.  At first they talked about how it was worth it, the kids deserved it, and they had a positive outlook.  With the ridiculously bad behavior of parents who hate them coupled with the districts’ lack of communication and support they are starting  to give up.  They can’t win and they know it.  So, they look tired and they stopped talking about “their kids”.  They get emails full of rude remarks and hear how they shouldn’t love their own kids as much as theirs.  [b]When someone can’t win, they quit caring. [/b] This is my biggest fear especially when I watch our kids teachers fake  a huge smile and try to minimize the trauma for my freaking kid.   I am terrified that they will start to decide you are right and that they should quit. The good ones are the ones you are hurting.  The bad ones didn’t care before and slowly be all that’s left if grownups can’t stop acting like middle schoolers.  [/quote]

I feel bad for the good teachers.  You can disagree with the union's position and still see and treat your kid's teacher with respect and kindness, just as you would want the teacher to treat your kid with respect and kindness even if she disagreed with you -- and frankly, just as you would want to be treated with respect even if people disagree with you.  Yes, it's hard for parents who lack childcare, or kids with special needs who can't effectively access DL.  It's hard for a lot of people these days, and being nasty and assuming bad faith and spewing vitriol isn't helping anyone.  I'm not interested in taking sides, and I'm not interested in bad-faith debate.  People who want their kids back in school aren't all callous monsters.  Teachers who think this plan is a bad idea aren't all lazy, corrupt losers.  Everyone is frayed and worn and frustrated, and we could all do with a little more grace and a little less scapegoating.  It can be hard for you or your kid or lots of kids, and still not be because the teachers are lazy or corrupt or incompetent or evil.  People of good intent can disagree.  And frankly, in real life, the nastiest, meanest words I've heard are coming from the parents highest on the SES ladder, who are using the homeless and neediest as a cudgel and an excuse for being rude and disrespectful to their kid's actual teacher.  It's gross and I'm sick of it.  [/quote]

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