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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Working parents (including teachers) are screwed if these alternative plans are used.[/quote]

That’s why they are not going to be used.
Too complicated. It’s going to be a phase 3 style back to school as normal or 100% virtual. 
The problem for teachers is they will be expected to be online and working a
lot more for fall than right now, so the ones with younger kids might still need childcare. And if schools can’t open safely,
Neither can daycares.[/quote]

Yes, some teachers might need to figure out childcare for some parts of the day - just like tons of other people have being doing and will have to do.  Let’s not pretend this is a unique hardship not borne by many other working parents right now.[/quote]

You still haven't answered the question of where this childcare will come from. I'm a single mom working FT from home right now, and I count myself lucky to still have a paycheck. I also have a lot of sympathy for teachers, because their job is fundamentally different from mine. Unless I'm in a meeting, my job is not tied to a certain timeframe. A policy paper on X is due by Friday, and I can work on it whenever.

That's so fundamentally different from teacher as to be unrecognizable in terms of what it looks like to work from home. Given your callous reaction, I'm guessing your job is more like mine than like a teacher's. [/quote]

It’s not callous to expect teachers to deal with the same issues we are all facing.  The post I responded to suggested that this difficulty was a reason to not require expanded schooling (from 45 minutes a day currently in my kid’s class), whether online, in-class or a combo.  That’s frankly ridiculous. Everyone else is finding a way to make it work - even though it is hard and imperfect- and we can expect the same of teachers.

And no my job is not flexible.  I have specific things that must be done at specific times, except I have far more than 45 minutes (or likely a few hours if school is expanded) to cover.[/quote]

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