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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone who has school-age children is trying to manage remote learning this year.  I can understand not wanting to pay $35k for online learning that you can get through your county for free — I would not pay that either.  So withdraw.  But teachers do not have to risk dying because you do not want to balance working, children at home, and their education.  You are not special. [/quote]

Funny how the rest of the country stepped up.  Grocery store workers, cleaners, hospital custodians, daycare providers, warehouse workers, delivery truck drivers etc, all showed up during a pandemic.  [/quote]

:roll: yeah teaching a group of 15 kids all day is exactly like driving a truck or cleaning somewhere. How often are truck drivers having to actually interact with people? Or cleaners or even grocery store workers? Those jobs you listed are JUST like teaching...and doing those jobs in a pandemic is TOTALLY different then how they are done during a non-pandemic  :roll: just like teaching. Teachers are just whining and just want to stay home. because they LOVE working 12 hour days to try to make a bunch of pissed off parents happy and figure out some way to reach kids and educate them despite the problems...yeah pretty lazy  :roll:

I don't know a single teacher that would not prefer in-person. They just don't want to risk their lives to deliver drastically inferior educational product, especially if they are trained as progressive educators. Maybe it works ok at a school where it's lecture, textbook, and worksheet based...

Under any circumstance this fall, teachers are basically having to completely re-train themselves. All the years of student teaching and advanced degrees did not train them to be online teachers or in-person teachers to students who are supposed to adhere to the mitigation strategies.

It's not just a matter of slapping on a mask and doing your job the same way as before, as it is with the other careers you listed. Give teachers a break. And no one entered teaching for the $$$...most entered for the children so yeah, they want things to be back to normal too.[/quote]

BURGUNDY teachers are supposed to be creative innovative progressive and committed to outdoor and nature based education. While much more traditional schools like congressional are finding a way to make it work, Burgundy teachers Are abandoning this philosophy (and their students) in favor of all day screen time. [/quote]

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