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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wait till Wash. Post (or others) learn of the FB post about the APS teacher who let her kids out of class at 11 am and assigned asynchronous work for the next day because she's at Disney World.

There are some unknowns here, but the optics and hypocrisy are terrible. APS won't let our kids return to class, but it's OK to [b]allow teachers to vacation[/b] in Disney and assign asynchronous work? [/quote]

Why not? For all we know the teacher is willing to teach F2F. That teacher didn’t make the decision to work remotely. If she has the leave to use she can use it. If you see a teacher at the gym or eating at a restaurant off school hours are you going take issue and give them a hard time? [/quote]

This is the problem with the school debate right now though. By arguing that schools can’t reopen because it’s not safe for teachers, it has made an issue of every risky behavior teachers engage in. Should we be scrutinizing every teacher’s individual choices right now? No. But the unions are framing the argument in a way that makes it inevitable.

School closures are hard on families. You may roll your eyes at that, but it’s true. A family struggling to keep up with school, childcare, and work is OF COURSE going to be livid to find out a teacher at their school is teaching from a hotel room at Disney Workd and then assigning asynchronous work to go vacation with her family. Of course that’s upsetting. Many families gave up vacations and in person socializing specifically in the hopes that it would keep numbers low enough to make it safe for schools to reopen. Any teacher or union advocate who doesn’t understand how this is bad should not be playing a part in the discussion around reopening. There is no good faith way to defend what that teacher did.[/quote]

If the teacher took leave and in addition provided asynchronous assignments, I see no problem with it. [/quote]

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