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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teachers are people and people complain.

There are very few other options if you want to work 200 days per year and be paid a professional salary.

[b]Right now I think we’re still seeing a COVID correction. Early weeks oF COVID was everyone saying teachers were heroes and shaming parents for wanting school. Teachers who absorber that attitude are finding it hard right now. [/b][/quote]

Oh, that is legitimately a hilarious take. Teachers were revered for maybe about two weeks in March 2020, then torn to shreds by sputtering, shrieking parents for the next two years. But do go on.[/quote]

Kids were out of school for two years while parents who objected were told “school isn’t childcare” and that they didn’t like their own kids, meanwhile watching private schools and european schools go back without incident. I think many teachers absorbed this idea that they should be privileged vis a vis the families, and now aren’t used to expectations. [/quote]

I taught in-person in a private school throughout Covid. It certainly wasn’t without incident. [/quote]

Were there mass deaths among the teaching staff as predicted?[/quote]

No, of course not. But we had regular absences because teachers understandably got sick, and then we had to cover each others’ classes for long periods because of quarantine rules. We got no breaks. It was exhausting, far more exhausting than any other time during my teaching career. We had angry parents because we couldn’t please everybody at all times on all issues, and they took their frustrations out on the overworked, tired teachers. Many of us had kids at home doing virtual school while we were in person, leading to tremendous issues at home on top of our work challenges.

We endured and it worked, but at great cost for teachers. I’m sure you respect that. [/quote]

I respect the heck out of the teachers who kept kids in school. They were genuinely heroic. The ones who did everything in their power to keep schools
closed are the ones who I think are struggling to adjust now.[/quote]

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