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My teacher friend just retired early. And I don't blame her--she's not teaching summer school and she's not going back next year.

When you find out you are only a childcare worker, and people really don't care about their kids learning or about the teacher / childcare worker's health, why bother?

Why not retire early? Find another career? Do something people actually seem to value and don't scream at you over? Plenty of jobs out there now. [/quote]

Oh can it with the child care thing. Do you not like it that women work outside the home? Or is your self-esteem just based entirely on being "more" than a lowly child care worker?  I'm sorry that it offends you that the existential threat to women's careers associated with virtual learning is a problem for many families. Maybe have some perspective? Because I support teachers, I think they deserve better pay and more funding for school supplies and less bureaucracy, but as a woman who WOH and respects child care teachers, you lost me on this one.[/quote]

It's not the school districts responsibility to deal with your childcare issues. What if your child fell seriously ill and couldnt attend school? What if a global pandemic happened and schools closed? Oh wait...[/quote]

Right, still losing me. Why is it surprising that parents don't care about teachers, when teachers clearly don't care about parents? Oh, you're going to lose your job because you can no longer work without child care, and there were already severe child care shortages before the pandemic so it's not easy to find someone to care for your children? Not only is it not my problem, but IT'S OFFENSIVE TO ME THAT THIS IS STRESSFUL FOR YOU?"[/quote]

It doesn't matter how many times you say "you're losing me."  The fact is that it is not the school district's responsibility to warehouse your children for you in buildings while you work, at all times and in all world conditions.  You don't like that.  That's a You Problem.[/quote]

So many ridiculous things in this comment. First, never have parents had the expectation that school systems will "warehouse" their children "at all times". That's just embarrassing that you would try to claim that. Second, child care is an everyone problem. Child care is a public good that has not received the funding that it needs. Even before the pandemic, there were child care shortages that prevented women who wanted to work, from working. Now, given the pandemic, did it make sense to close school buildings while cases were surging? I'm not a public health expert, but let's say yes (closing them all year...is a debate for another thread). Even if it was the right thing to do, you have to at least recognize that taking a major source of child care away from working parents - not just during school hours, but also all the before and after care programs that were shut down (as well as several full day child care providers for young children that operated in schools and were not permitted to reopen for months), put families in a huge bind. So when teachers (REAL TEACHERS) go on Facebook whining about how "school is not child care" and "take care of your children" it sounds really glib and insensitive. You can whine all you want about how it's "not the school system's responsibility" - but that choice, by the school system to essentially wash its hands of this issue until child care providers got together and advocated for a solution for parents (after 5 months) had major negative economic impacts for families, to say nothing of the impact on children.[/quote]

The discussion is about summer school jobs, not year round.  The summer school jobs don't pay as much as year round.  So, if it costs you more in child can than you earn, why work that job for two months.[/quote]

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