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Can we just drop the argument that elementary teachers can do their jobs remotely?  If doing your job remotely requires 20-25 other adults to constantly monitor and assist the children who are supposed to be under your care, you are not able to do your job remotely.[/b][/quote]

Seriously.[/quote]
Schools are not childcare facilities. Those 20-25 adults are actually called “parents”. Monitoring and assisting your children is called parenting. [/quote]

Except that they are.  Supervision is a part of the job.  What happens if a first grade teacher gets up and leaves the classroom for ten minutes so she can drop a deuce?  That's right, she can't do that.  Because she is supposed to be providing supervision as a function of her job.[/quote]

Nope.  Not required during a pandemic.  Their employers set their conditions of employment, not you.[/quote]
True. We all know many parents want in person school for various reasons. As a teacher, I care infinitely more about my safety than what you claim is most effective. If communities want school, then they can collectively stop participating in indoor dining and flying and otherwise spreading the virus. They won’t, though, so they must just not want it that much. [/quote]

Stop gaslighting! NOTHING anyone does makes school more or less likely. I mean we were at very low case numbers this late summer and early fall and we still didn’t get school. :roll:[/quote]
YOUR child’s school didn’t open. My district did, and did not close even when numbers were really bad this winter. Which is when and why I got a medical accommodation to work remotely and so did many of my colleagues. I’m not going to put my family at risk because you prefer in person learning during a global crisis. Not sorry. People whine and whine that teachers don’t want to be exposed to COVID without actually acknowledging that if the virus were under control we’d be in a different position. They seem to think that by threatening and insulting teachers they can just bully us into submission. It’s not going to work, even a year later. Grow up. [/quote]

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