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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^ what an absolute missed opportunity. 
After being back to IPL for only a few weeks my students parents were in tears. Not because I am so great. It was because they’re kids genuinely missed school. These are incredibly well off families. The kids were in pods ect before returning. It’s not about childcare. 
When my own child returned in March it was  a night and day differ with for him. 
Teaching and schools are powerful for students. It is heartbreaking that many teachers are missing that aspect of things because they are realizing that they actually don’t like their jobs. 
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Not a teacher but what I can say is that Teachers like teaching and kids just fine.  What they don’t like is having the reprecussions of many of societies ills heaped upon them with great expectation for them to resolve or work around.  What they don’t like is being given ever more and more paperwork/data to gather but no additional time with which to do this work.  What they don’t like is how parents fail to remember that teachers have lives outside of school and can’t devote their whole being to their students. What they don’t like is being blamed for policy decisions made at a state level.  What they don’t like is comments such as “having 2-5 more additional kids in a class is not a big deal([i]really, so if they dropped 2-5more kids at your house for a sleepover, or dinner everything would be the same?)[/i]. What they don’t like is being told to adapt to changing technology and trends, but not actually being provided appropriate training, mentoring, and ramp up time.  What they don’t like is being compared to private schools where tuition is 25-50k/student, the students and families specifically selected, and class sizes half.  What they don’t like is folks seemingly not understanding that they are tired and battered after a pandemic just like everyone else.  [/quote]

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