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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I pray someone from Central office with any authority is reading this thread.  For gods sake, you’ve had a YEAR to plan for this and you act like you’re surprised we might actually return to a school building, like ever.  I never thought I’d have to beg for the CHOICE to send my kid to school.   [/quote]

New poster here. I agree with nearly everyone here. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. Open the schools, teachers can prepare any afternoon after classes end - or before 9am when classes start. You're only teaching like 4-5 hours a day.

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Honestly, rooms just won’t get set up then. [/quote]

If I told my boss, “you are not giving me extra time off to do something that is essential for my job, so I’m just going to ship it,” I would get fired. I work for a nonprofit and don’t get paid a lot, but I am a professional. I am salaried and do what it takes to get my job done. This past year has been a nightmare and work got much busier than usual because I work on issues related to the pandemic. I worked late into the night most nights to get the work done, with no extra time off and no extra pay.

Thankfully, not all teachers have your attitude.[/quote]

Except teachers are not asking for “time off”, they are asking for time to set up rooms for in-person instruction that you demanded. I’m a career-changer. I used to work a salaried position in two different state governments. If we had a physical setup for events ( time sensitive) to complete that took us away from a public-facing duty, we got the time. We were not told to come in on a Saturday or work from 5 pm until whenever multiple nights.

Setting up a classroom is not the same as an extra intellectual task. It’s physical labor.

There are multiple teachers telling you that rooms will not get set up. It’s the logical outcome of not having sufficient time provided for the task. Personally, I don’t think my students need more than a desk and a screen. They will have to stay seated in their taped off square anyway. The walls will stay bare and it will be okay. Because, according to you, in-school is automatically thousands of times better instruction somehow. This is the product you purchased.[/quote]

That takes four days? Or is it a reason to push some things around a room, take the rest of the week off, then throw a temper tantrum right before and not come back anyway?[/quote]

No, it won’t take 4 days to push the desks around and pile up boxes.  Some of would prefer to make the room as inviting as possible because we know school will feel very different and we want to make it to feel as comfortable and inviting as possible.  I am an MCPS teacher and this post is the first I am hearing about the 4 day request.  It certainly wasn’t something I voted on or asked for.  That said, if I have to choose between using before school, after school, and lunch to support a severely at risk student or making my classroom inviting, I am choosing the academic support every time.  The reality is that many of your children are learning and you can’t possible understand how much time we are putting in doing extra sessions with the kids that aren’t.  I work with kids the vast majority of Wednesday’s but I am inviting the kids that are not doing well or can’t attend consistently due to family obligations including supporting younger children in the home.  I will choose to use my time with kids and my classroom can stay in disarray until the summer.  Please, don’t complain that the walls are bare.  [/quote]

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