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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ah, so teachers get to sit around doing 0-60 minutes of Zoom per day (that was our experience in the spring) while parents scramble to find child care and/or try to educate our young children while holding down full-time jobs.

Question for the teachers: I want to know when you are willing to come back to work so I can right-set my expectations for the rest of the school year.[/quote]

I wish parents would understand that the spring was an absolute dumpster fire change for everyone. No one was prepared for that and had to pivot to something no one was ready for. Many of the schools that I am aware of have spent money helping teachers become better teachers for virtual learning with professional development and more licenses for online teaching tools. Chances are your child's teachers are also scrambling to figure out child care. Also, from the school models I've seen, there is much more synchronous time online for all of the divisions compared with the spring experience, which was again, out of the blue and unexpected.

Schools and teachers are not to blame for the woefully incompetent national 'strategy' for combatting the pandemic. Be mad at the national response, the lack of testing ability, slow test results, patchwork restriction, families still hosting large parties, kids still playing and traveling with club sports, etc.

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Of course I’m upset by the pandemic and those who aren’t following recommendations. I’m also angry at teachers from Burgundy who are refusing to come do their jobs despite the unique safety measures the school has been able to put into place.

Regarding the spring, there was something my kid’s teachers could have done. They could have scheduled one-on-one time to work on core competencies like reading and math instead of doing one 30-minute Zoom each and calling it a day. There is absolutely no excuse why all of that time was given up for 2.5 months.

Both my partner and I are expected on site at our jobs. Since Burgundy is turning out to be a colossal waste of money, we now have to come up with more for child care. I can’t even imagine what it will cost us if we want to find someone who can actually provide our child with the education Burgundy is supposed to, because we cannot do it while we are at work.

What do you propose we do?[/quote]

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