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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So if teachers are at school full time but their own children are only going to school half time who is going to watch them? I teach 5th grade and have a first and third grader. What am I supposed to do with them? My neighbor works for the city. Who is going to watch her kids for the weeks they are off? The half time plan makes no sense. Everyone should go back full time. It is so contagious it doesn't matter if kids sit 6 feet apart. [/quote]

You hire a babysitter or use child care like most working parents.  Seems simple to me.[/quote]

There's not enough childcare options as it is. There certainly won't be enough to cover the massive influx of children that this half time schooling plan would require.

I also take issue with any employer, education based or not, suddenly expecting their employees to find thousands of dollars in their monthly budget for childcare, particularly at a time when people are finding their pay being cut as a result of the economic crisis we're spiraling into. You want people back at work to get the economy moving but want to saddle working parents with childcare expenses in order to do so. Sounds counter intuitive. Then you have all the people who are unemployed who now won't even be able to return to work because now they can't afford it due to childcare expenses.

And you can spare me the "school is not childcare" bullshit. Of course it's not. We all know that. But our economy is designed to run in a way that children being at school allows both parents to work and if you remove that option, this whole house of cards comes crashing down.

The fact of the matter is, there are a lot of jobs that would be flexible enough to allow at least one parent to work from home one or two days a week on the days their child may not be at school. So they could probably make it work. But teaching isn't one of those jobs. So, once again, the financial burden of these stupid plans falls squarely on the teachers' shoulders and on those essential workers who cannot work from home (God bless them I don't even know how they're doing it now). [/quote]

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