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"Good for kids?" How about necessary and critical? I can't believe so many of you think that our children's' education is dispensable. [/quote]

For years (because I've been around here way too long) I've read on DCUM that DCUM-demographic parents prioritize their children's education, unlike those other parents over there who only use school for free food and childcare.

So imagine my surprise to read on DCUM, now, that actually school is merely something that's nice to have, and if schools stay closed for months or even years while everything else goes back to being un-closed - well, that's how it is.[/quote]

I think there’s a contingent of posters on this forum who are genuinely frightened of COVID. But also sense that there’s a large contingent of posters who live in the DMV and are federal employees who really like working from home and they don’t want things to reopen; it means they’ll likely have to go back to work at an office. For many it may mean a return to a more normal pace of work, too.

Depending on the agency, some of my fed friends are working long hours. But others are barely working as aspects of their jobs aren’t applicable either because aspects of the economy or offices closed. Teacher / academic friends, particularly at the college level, loving it too. As one said to me, she’s been a teacher for 10 years and this is the first time she can truly work from home.

In sum, the longer this goes on, the longer those in COVID-proof jobs can coast. They don’t want schools to reopen for the obvious reasons. [/quote]

I’m a teacher. I can’t “truly work from home” because my job is so much harder to do right now than it is in a classroom with the kids there. Yesterday, a student couldn’t find the answer. Normally, I would walk over and read the passage aloud while using tone and strategic pausing for emphasis. Then reason the question. A quick, but effective intervention. Instead, I had to fire up my school-issued computer, log in to three different programs, hook up the document camera, and then read the passage to the student. Then, because I had a “private Zoom” with the student, I had to document it in the communication log to protect myself and the school district against false allegations.[/quote]

So you are eager for schools to reopen? Return back to normal classroom instruction? Sounds like it would relieve you of all of this extra work.[/quote]

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