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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I think many of us are just over this constant shit storm. No one wins, but someone has to take one for the team, and while teachers shouldn't have to work summer (it's in the contract) it's just more shit on parents and families who have yet another thing reneged on.

There are families at all levels who would have been planning for summer school, making their care arrangements and other plans around it. To have it taken away when there are few other alternatives for the summer now is incredibly insensitive. It's the same problem with the school year in that parents keep being strung along and having everything pulled from under them at the last minute. Yes, there are teachers with families who might not be inclined to work this summer, when their salary won't cover the cost of camps, but APS SHOULD HAVE FIGURED THIS THE f*** OUT!

How hard is that? Bonuses didn't work? Did you offer child care? Did you offer to start new, graduating teachers this summer early to meet need? J-1 Visas? Make it work. I think that's all we were asking. The rest of us have to make it work.

At my job, we worked this whole time with no vaccine. I'm DoD and civilians were dead last to be offered vaccines, even though we had to go to work this whole time in person in some capacity. [b]We currently work shifts starting at 0400 to keep the numbers low in our facility, so I have little sympathy for APS to not get it's shit together and make it work. We all have our sacrifices to keep our jobs and school not working the way it should has already cost some people their careers.[/b]

We're all fried. Everyone. As tax payers, we expect the school system to work for us. I think APS knows that we can't all go private (unless there are dozens of new private schools opening). A 7% loss of students is a big deal and it's the students with means who are leaving.

I'm just disappointed for the families who were counting on summer school to educate their kids and now need a place for them to go when most camps cut numbers and are full. I'm so thankful we weren't even entertaining summer school.[/quote]

I mean - I also work there and honestly don't know a single person who isn't looking for a new job and trying to quit, because of how we were treated.  Just like I don't know any teachers who are signing up to teach summer school for pennies after being treated they way they have been this past year. The lessen here isn't be more like D**  The lesson is that labor is finite resource that has to be properly compensated and treated with some minimal amount of respect. Or you will lose them. People vote with their feet.  Always. [/quote]

The problem is, who will hire you? I would never, ever consider hiring a former teacher after this year.

And what else can be done with an elementary education degree? LOL[/quote]

That’s the dumbest statement ever. DH left teaching in March and now earns much more, plus has a better work life balance.

After the first few years, teachers have degrees beyond their undergrad and increasingly, even novice teachers were not education majors, but rather alt cert. this means a more widely marketable degree and sometimes advanced degrees. But as for those elementary ed degrees: A friend’s DD graduated last spring, has Type 1 diabetes, and was advised to avoid classrooms. She was hired by a textbook company. She earns almost twice a starting teacher’s salary in her district. That’s one other thing that can be done.[/quote]

STEM teachers and those with specialized degrees will leave. They don't need you to hire them. The economy's starting to open up.

Be careful what you wish for.[/quote]

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