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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teachers are allowed to value their health more than some random kid's education.  Something is wrong with a teacher if the teacher values a kid's education more than their own health.  Give it a rest, angry parents.  Get some therapy, develop a value system, and start to realize that it isn't all about you.

- Signed, a Parent[/quote]

I agree! If a teacher isn't comfortable teaching in person despite being prioritized for vaccines, then she needs to find a different career. [/quote]
Then who will teach the children? Places are desperate for teachers, look on the careers page for the counties. They are trying to lure back retired teachers. All these flippant remarks that teachers should just quit or be fired are so ridiculous. [/quote]

Yes, but the nasty comments make the entitled parents FEEEL so good when they type them and helps them pretend to have power, and really, that's what's important.[/quote]
Yep![/quote]

We got schools open this year.  We have put a lot of pressure on FCPs to get some kids back 4 days.  We got the SB passed requiring 5 days a week, in person, with a real love teacher, not an ADA slacker.  We will vote for Governor this fall and schools will be a huge issue.  We’ve had a lot of people do a 180 on vouchers and charter schools.  We’ve put a lot of pressure on the NoS not to give teachers raises.  And down the line, bonds go through us.

So yes, we have some power.   Show up in person in August and teach 5 Das a week from your classroom to a full class of kids. Or be fired. No more monitors and ADA. We did that.  [/quote]
And, once again, I will ask you who is going to replace the teachers? Look, I agree that schools should be open, I am in MCPS and am happy to be back. But all these “fire the teachers”  and “these teachers all need to quit” is totally tone deaf and, quite frankly, idiotic. [/quote]

[b]Teachers have been holding us hostage with threats to quit for a full year.[/b]  And frankly, they are no good to us at home are being paid double what a virtual teacher makes.  Maybe they will quit  And maybe the replacements won’t be great. But, if it’s going to happen, we are just kicking the can down the road.  If they are going to quit when they have to go back, they are going to quit. We can’t go on another full year like this. Because teachers will still be threatening to quit. I’m over the threats. Put up so we have time to plan. Or STFU. [/quote]

We are a two teacher (ES) household and I think you ware way overestimating the number of teachers who have threatened to quit. Neither of us can think of anyone we know who has actually threatened to quit over the prospect of teaching in person. If anything they are thinking of quitting because of DL and/or concurrent instruction.[/quote]

Anyone with common sense knows teachers have no say and most are going back.  Those that are quitting have health issues, family issues or are scared and that's perfectly fine given COVID.  If parents don't like it, they can step up and become teachers since they think they can do it better.  Or better, homeschool.[/quote]

No thanks. I’ll keep my fully telework job that pays a lot more. [/quote]
And I’ll keep doing my telework job, teaching your child. Sick of these hypocrites. [/quote]

Not after this year in VA. SB1303 forces you back in the classroom.

Plus, it’s not my fault I chose a more flexible, better paying career path than you.  The wasn’t a secret when you got a teaching degree.  Neither was the fact you would be working in a classroom. Your job can’t be done well from home. Mine can, because I made different choices. [/quote]
I don’t teach in the state of Virginia, and I’ll be home for the rest of the year. Teachers made no such agreement to work in a classroom during a global health crisis. [/quote]

Sure, and the public made no agreement to pay teachers that refuse to return to work. You can always quit.[/quote]
So you think your telework job is real work, but not anyone else’s. Got it. [/quote]

You are replying to a different poster.  But yes, I’m a Fed attorney who does very complicated analysis and writing as my primary job responsibilities.  I am not public facing and don’t work as a member of a team.  I was 60% telework before COVID. I’m 100% now, and it looks like they may just not require us to go back. My productivity is actually higher from home, because I’m not constantly interrupted by co-workers who want to chat.   And I can perform all of my job functions exactly the same way as I did in the office.  We need one manger in per floor to pick up things that need to be printed and mailed from the printer and put them in an envelope. That’s it.

Some jobs translate very well into telework. I took my job when I had tweens to get the telework, so between DH and I, someone was always home after school. It was a career choice and I took a pay cut to move to the federal government.

You made the choice to have a public facing job that does not translate well to telework.

It is not some secret that telework is a great option for some jobs and a very poor one for others. You can do what I did, and take a pay cut and teach virtually for FCPS online of Virtual VA. They will need to staff up for next year. But, you don’t want to make the trade off many other professionals have made to get telework friendly jobs. [/quote]

So tired of teachers who are pretending they're office workers. They're not, and there are fewer jobs than they think which can effectively be done at home. Guarantee they just don't like being lumped in with nurses, slaughterhouse workers, grocery workers, etc. who actually have to go in.

The teachers have all seen the test scores by now. They know they're not doing an okay job of DL.[/quote]

Hear hear![/quote]

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