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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you all hate teachers so much, homeschool your kids. Let them figure out what other jobs they qualify for. You people are insane![/quote]

I AM homeschooling my kid, because distance learning fails his educational and socio-emotional needs. Thanks. And yeah, I am a little crazy, because I had to learn how to homeschool my child in the middle of a pandemic while also handling huge changes to my own job (I don't have a union that can just tell all the stakeholders at my workplace that my needs are the most important) and dealing with losing three loved ones (one to Covid, and two to cancer) and just generally trying to keep my sh!t together.

Thank you for your concern. It's similar to the concern that my child's teacher expressed in the fall when she told me that she totally understood why DL wasn't working out for my kid, since she had herself enrolled her child in a private Montessori school due to similar problems.

I was raised by teachers and have never hated them. But when my child's tax-payer funded public school teacher, who is refusing to teach in person, recommended that the solution to my problem was to simply pay for private school, I do think I actually lost my mind.[/quote]

Sorry to hear you are going through such a stressful situation. DL is a real struggle and I'm so worried about the impact it will have, both educationally and social-emotionally. Not to mention parents who get bashed by some in this forum who say they are "whiners" who want teachers to act as babysitters. No, what we want is teachers to do their job and go back to the classroom and learn to adapt like so many other workers have done in a responsible manner. [/quote]

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