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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'll be so glad come fall when all these whiny teachers (and also all my whiny co-workers) get forced back into the office full time. Free ride is over folks![/quote]

F*** off with this noise. Nobody had a “free ride” this year. Especially not parents OR teachers.

Also, a lot of employers are not requiring their staff to return to the office, ever. We’re probably moving away to a LCOL area due to this new freedom. Sucks to be you, I guess, chained to life so miserable that you want everyone else to be just as miserable. [/quote]

Come on. Plenty of white collar workers did have basically a free ride this year. People have been admitting it all over other forums. [/quote]

Raises her hand. Work has been a joke this year. My company has been great in letting people work from home but no one is actually doing their real job. What we are doing from home is a joke. I am not complaining, I appreciate having a job and being able to pay my bills, but this year has not been a hard one for us. I think most parents in this position have not said much here because there are so many other parents who are not in that position and it would be tone deaf to say this in threads. I love it when I am allowed to go into the building and get real work done, I have been asking to do that as much as possible, because I prefer to feel like I am working for my money then chilling at home.

There are plenty of parents not in that boat. There are plenty of parents who have had to make working from home work. And many of the parents I know in that position bemoan that their bosses think that they should be available for a far larger amount of time because they are a thome and should be reachable. The idea of set hours is pretty much gone.

And some jobs have been understanding about parents needing to flex hours because of kids needing help for virtual learning and other jobs have not been flexible. Meetings are held at the same time and people have to be there.

It has been a mixed bag for parents. I think the number of white collar workers coasting is actually pretty small but we are out there. I don't see the need to raise my hand in a topic where parents are actively trying to make a more demanding job and virtual learning work, it seems tone deaf. [/quote]
For every person who's work was slow this year, there are those of us who ended up working many many more hours than ever to assist with the response to the pandemic and short staffing.  My work went from 45 hours a week to 70+ hours.  It hasn't slowed down since last March and I'm beyond burned out.  My 4 yo's school closed and still hasn't reopened.  My 7yo has really struggled with distance learning. My husband works out of the house so virtual learning falls entirely on my shoulders, plus home schooling the 4 yo so she learns at least something before kindergarten.

We did end up hiring a college student to help because I can't work and watch the 4 yo, but her level of maturity is low and she needs me to constantly answer questions and remind her what needs to be done.  I also have to leave work calls regularly when my 7 yo melts down from DL.  Care options are very limited.

This year has been awful and I have a lot of resentment for my 7 yo's teachers.  I've asked for reasonable help when my kid is struggling and melting down and frustrated and not learning and have gotten zero support.  None at all.  They seem to resent this year so much that they are refusing to do anything but the bare minimum (or less if they can get away with it).[/quote]
Or maybe your teachers are dealing with the same things in their households and doing the best they can. [/quote]Notice I said reasonable requests.  These weren't big asks, but the answer was always "you're on your own."

For example:

My kid is struggling to pick books that are the right reading level.  Can you make some suggestions?  Answer:  no.

My kid is melting down from trying to type fractions into Seesaw.  Can she do this assignment on paper?  Answer: no.

My kid is melting down from trying to arrange tiny boxes for math assignments in Seesaw, as they keep resizing and reformatting.  Even I find it hard to manipulate.  These assignments keep coming up and she's really frustrated.  Do you have any suggestions?  Answer: no.

My kid can't get the testing app to work.  It's showing really small print that she can't read.  What should we do?  Answer:  Just read silently whenever we use the app.  She just won't get test scores this year.

None of these are above and beyond. They're all part of delivering distance education to a 7 yo.[/quote]

I agree with you. It's a complete nightmare at that age, and little to no accommodations are being made to address that. But just wait for a poster to come along and say that their 7 year-old has made so much progress with DL, that they're being recruited by the CDC to help with variant sequencing. And that you're a parenting failure because you haven't achieved the same.[/quote]

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