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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You saying that you sometimes work late is not even remotely the same as expecting TWO MONTHS of unpaid work. Teachers work after school, on weekends, and on vacations, as well, but I think you'll be hard pressed to find another profession where you are essentially furloughed for several months each year and people demand that you continue working during that time. We have strict contracts regarding hours worked, and our jobs are not like office jobs. I can't waltz in with a latte at 10:00 am as most of the people who work in offices do, or take a leisurely hour and a half lunch and expense it to the company. If I walk in the door at 8:01, disciplinary action is taken. If I walk out the door before 3:00, disciplinary action is taken. I can't flex my hours and leave at 1:00 so I can go the doctor, get ready to host Thanksgiving dinner, catch an earlier flight, pick someone up at the airport, etc. I can't decide I'm working from home when the weather is bad like my friends who work in corporate can, and then screw around all day. We don't accrue vacation time. I also don't get any of the perks that corporate workers do-a stipend for my phone, my internet, my car, etc. Teachers don't get performance bonuses, either. Maybe take a look around at all the perks offered in the corporate world before telling teachers they have it so good.

I also have a feeling your coworkers don't hit each other, try to run out the door, bite you, or come in coughing and refuse to leave. Your job is not the same, so just stop trying to compare your compensation and your job expectations with ours. [/quote]

Lots of teachers phoned it in in March-June. Parents saw that and frankly that is what’s driving this push to get better options for fall.  Now you need to do better, All those rules you just recited? Are not going to happen with asynchronous DL.so just cut it. 
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No idea what you're talking about, as I had to punch in and out every single day of remote learning at our regularly scheduled times, or I would be docked time/pay. You have no idea what I did so you can stop patronizing me. Stay in your lane. [/quote]

Lol. I was there when this so-called education was delivered. In my school, kids had 30 minutes of live instruction. 30 minutes of recorded specials everyday but held every other week. If you think that’s acceptable for 3-5 grade, you are crazy.  You posted all this stuff about how much you worked.  When you move to less than 25% of your previous teaching time, you are not work as much. Simple.

For my other kid, teachers had a deadline to post weekly assignments. Would you like to guess how many did so by the deadline?  There is a reason parents are worried about DL.  [/quote]
You keep acting like your kids are in my class. Very bizarre. Once again, you don't know me and you aren't my boss. Back off.[/quote]

I agree with you PP. The hatred towards educators on this site is like nothing I have ever experienced. Just like with ANY profession, there are good and bad apples to be found. I am an MCPS teacher. I did everything I possibly could to work with and engage my students during distance learning. However, not all teachers are the same. I have children in MCPS, as well as nieces and nephews in the county. I saw firsthand (with my own kids) and heard secondhand (with my nieces and nephews) what other teachers were doing distance learning. It didn’t look the same for all students. Something else to keep in mind is the directives that were given to teachers by admin. Some teachers were told they MUST not go over 30 minutes of live time. Others were told to use their own judgment about what their students needed.  Some were told not to harass parents and students about missed work/poor attendance, and others were told to communicate with families regularly. These are just some examples (I could elaborate for sure). Finally, keep in mind that what happened from April - June was a crisis situation- crisis learning. If distance learning is what’s going to happen for the upcoming school year, I would imagine it will look much different. (Not that I have heard anything, because MCPS employees are often the last to hear information that pertains to our job).[/quote]

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