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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The fact remains that the Burgundy teachers should be embarrassed about their behavior. Everyone else is going back to work. Why can’t they? [/quote]

Except that’s not the facts. Burgundy teachers have been working all summer. They are working right now. They are 100% not at fault here and stating otherwise is speaking from an uninformed perspective. Be mad at administration if you need an outlet but the teachers are absolutely not to blame.

To clarify, most teachers in the area are going back to work in the DL context. Why do people continue to talk about this like teachers aren’t working?[/quote]

For K-8 Teaching cannot be done effectively online. “Going back to work In the DL context” is not going back to work. [/quote]

I don’t think in-person learning would/will look anything like we think it would either.

Teachers want to be in the classroom. If they didn’t, they would make much more money by quitting and tutoring online (pandemic or no pandemic). Teachers understand that NEITHER model is ideal but only one protects at risk people and makes sense right now.

I believe teachers are making a good faith effort to reopen. Given the way their planning for the fall was stymied, they have really great ideas about a slow re-opening that ensures kids’ learning as well as social-emotional needs are protected as much as possible. Talk to the teachers and you will hear this message loud and clear.

I know this has been said but it bears repeating - DL is not a result of teachers being lazy. It’s a result of a global pandemic. [b]Also, kids are capable of so much more than we give them credit for. Just like the first few weeks of school are a time of tremendous transition and routine learning, the first few weeks of DL have to be that too. Give our kids the space to grow into this model and ask teachers how you can best support your kids at home.[/b] It doesn’t/shouldn’t look like kids at a desk for hours. Teachers don’t want that either, especially at Burgundy. [/quote]

Respectfully... this sounds nice and rosy, but is obviously coming from someone who didn't try to manage DL with a young child in the spring while also working full-time. My young child lost interest in Zoom pretty quickly in the spring, despite the awesome teachers. As an educator, you know very well that DL is not appropriate for 5, 6 and 7 year olds.[/quote]

And what about the impact on parents who have jobs to do?[/quote]

Ask teachers how I can support them while my kids are at home while I am working full time and paying full tuition and have no child care? No thanks. How about the teachers ask the parents who pay tuition how they can support us?[/quote]

Of course this is hard for everyone involved. Teachers want to support us. I see this as trying to make the best of this situation rather than focusing on the negative aspects. This is rough - no getting around it. [/quote]

So that’s your solution? That’s not acceptable[/quote]

I’m a parent, not an administrator or teacher. I don’t have a solution here but I choose to give teachers grace. Is this a bad situation? Yes. Do I believe it will be ideal? Absolutely not. Could this have been handled differently by administration? Yes. Am I frustrated? Yes. None of that helps my kid adjust to DL. [/quote]

Again, what's the solution? DL for a 5, 6, or 7 year old is not a viable solution for parents who work full-time and don't have the luxury of telecommuting for all of that time. Recognizing that this logistically does not work for my family is not mean we are chosing not to give teachers grace, or choosing to focus on the negative.

I'll be at work. My DH will be at work. My kids will be in child care where they won't always be able to DL. Again, how is Burgundy helping me to come up with a solution here? They're not. Instead, I get to pay a lot of money for nothing. I feel like my family doesn't matter.[/quote]

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