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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hope teachers get paid during this period, AND I hope they hop online at the end of the two weeks and start teaching again.

In APS and elsewhere, teachers are available to kids right now. We've been told MCPS teachers are not, which I assume is a union rule.

Fine, but if the quarantine is going to run beyond two weeks and teachers will continue to be paid, maybe we should ask that they do some work?

[b]Yes, it will be hard to work remotely, particularly if they have kids at home. Welcome to what the rest of us have been trying to accomplish since the middle of last week. [/b]

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At least you're working and getting paid. That's better than the situation for many others.[/quote]

I don't think anyone would argue that people still working and getting paid are lucky. I think the point is that teachers should eventually be among that group. [/quote]

I don't necessarily.  And again - I'm a former teacher.

Online instruction is process that takes years to learn.  If the systems aren't training teachers - or if only a few are trained, either from schooling or from the system itself - then they should NOT be forced to instruct online.  It's a disaster and no one benefits.

You want them working over the summer to make it up?  If so, good luck convincing parents to forgo that lavish vacation.  Who's getting them to school?  the yellow bus?  What about magnet programs and their crazy routes?  What about teachers' vacations, too?  daycare for teachers' kids?  a perk of being a teacher (b/c Lord knows they can't recruit them or keep them) - being home with our kids during vacations . . .

It's 
just
so 
easy . . . [/quote]

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