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You miss the point. I am a teacher and I desperately want to get back with my students. I zoom with them daily for about an hour and have optional “check in” zooms every afternoon. I am working with some awesome parents who think of school as a partnership...and with some who are completely overwhelmed just trying to put food on the table...and some who have checked out because, despite access to technology and time, [b]they have just given up because it is “too hard.” [/b]I want to go back...but I am very concerned that protocols and adequate funding for the myriad things we will need to stay safer (not completely safe) will not be followed or available. I don’t want to be put in the same position as the VERY brave hospital workers and others who had to improvise and scramble for basic protections. In regular times, schools are known to be vectors for spreading diseases. One HUGE unanswered question is whether kids can easily pass on the virus. There is not enough info yet to determine that. If they prove to be poor carriers, we can all breathe more easily. If they do turn out to be “good” carriers, not only are they endangering their classmates and school staff, they are endangering their own families. Those who advocate spreading the virus to foster herd immunity are simply saying a certain number of people will have to die in order to “beat” this. They have a point. But, the initial estimate, which the president likes to cite, predicted 2 million dead if we did NOTHING to halt the spread. We are approaching 100,000. How many are too many?[/quote]

You lost me at the sarcastic quotation marks. Guess what?   We're struggling because it is hard. I have technology and sometimes time. But Im stressed. Im going in covid + rooms at my job.  I don't have a choice to say no like you all.  My kids aren't learning at all. My 4 year old has forgotten how to write her numbers even though i work on them in evenings when we get home. She cries everyday if when the virus will go away. She's even forgotten what our local grocery store looks like.  My 8 year old is buried in screens. They both cry that they're bored all day every day.  My 8 year old watches that video for class and is completely confused.  The distance learning is a joke.  So try to be more empathetic if someone tells you its hard. [/quote]

Former PP here. I have reread the PP teacher’s quotes.  This one says they want to go back to work to teach but they really don’t.  This one wants to stay home. Everything this person says is an excuse. Everything they say is all whine...It’s all me, me, me, my family while criticizing parents for wanting their kids to go back for extremely valid reasons.  Listen, teacher, whomever you are. If you don’t like the job especially  in it’s most challenging moments during a pandemic when kids need dedicated teachers more than ever, please do kids and families a favor and look for another line of work.   You sound really young inexperienced and spoiled.  You aren’t a good spokesperson, there are amazing dedicated teachers, so please just shut it so they can be better represented here. [/quote]

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