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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The teachers I know who are freaking out (and those that freaked out last year) seemed pretty low competency around a lot of skill sets.  While I have a few bright friends who became teachers because of passion, reality is that many people become teachers because it’s the easiest college degree.  The people I knew in HS who went to teachers college were nice, solidly average intelligence kids of UMC parents who expected their daughters to go to college.  Had they been born middle class or poor, college wouldn’t have been in their future.

IN the spring, I saw these people take a whole day to draft an incoherent email with the week’s assignments, that would have taken a typical professional an hour.  I saw them embarrassingly struggle with zoom for months whereas the rest of the professional world (lawyers, doctors, govt workers, therapists, small business owners, service companies) made the jump In a week with few hiccups.  I think some teachers are freaking out because while they may be kind, well intentioned and hard working, they just aren’t across the board smart and are struggling with basic tasks.  I think a smaller share of teachers are exceptionally bright, resilient, and creative, and therefore transitioned to DL much easier.

And before anyone says “yeah, well teachers were required to pivot to a job that wasn’t the skill set they were hired for, they’re awesome at traditional teaching, and you would be just as bad if your job overnight required you to go teach third graders in a classroom tomorrow.” ..... reality is that every single parent in America is going to get four weeks notice that their kids are doing DL this fall, and every parent is America is going to be working their butts off to teach their kids this fall, and the ONLY reason our (elem) age kids are going to learn ANYTHING this fall is because parents will step up to learn how to teach our kids.

So miraculously, parents will pivot in a month from being lawyers, doctors, shams, sahds, nurses, bus drivers, retail workers, and learn to teach their kids.  But many teachers are going to wholly fail with the same time frame on the simple task of shifting from in person teaching to DL teaching.  [/quote]

Shifting to teaching 25 first graders through distance learning is not as easy as you make it sound. Logistically it’s just not. Sorry. [/quote]

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