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So if I can do prepare for a very uncertain fall, why can't k-12 teachers?  Most college professors don't make much more than senior-level teachers;  we have serious writing and research loads along with our teaching obligations;  and most of us also have major administrative work.  So our workloads are similar too.  What makes teachers so entitled, besides the thug-like backing of their unions?    [/quote]

I'll tell you why in my case:   I am an elementary school teacher and don't have as much autonomy as you do.  My school district will tell me what I am supposed to teach and how I should teach it; which lessons should be face to face and which should be prerecorded, which platforms we should use, and which we must no longer use.   We are told which hours (and how many hours) we need to teach and when we may not teach.

Although I hope it doesn't happen, I could start school next fall and be told I am assigned to teach not 2nd grade but 5th grade.   I could be presented with a set of prerecorded lectures from the central office and be told my job is to use these lectures plus a new program our school just adopted.  I could be told to no longer use Google Classroom, we are switching to Schoolology.

So I am not going to invest a lot of time in planning courses until I have all the information I will need to do so.[/quote]

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