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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's just odd, because the rest of us already had to make these choices (quit to care for kids, hire child care, move a family member in, etc).

I'm lost as to how this is different for teachers.

Like, before the pandemic, were teachers just allowed to not work because they had non-newborns?  Obviously not.  [/quote]

It is different because there is a pandemic. The relative or nanny or small at home daycare people may have used before may not be available. Also, your post assumes that pre-covid, teachers didn't face these very same choices you had to make. And now, everyone's mileage varies. I would not be comfortable sending my young child to pre-school at this point (if I had one), whereas I wouldn't have thought twice about it before. People (everyone) are having to make different choices than they would have a year ago.

Have you seen how many women have been pushed out of the workforce this year either due to childcare, unemployment, or discrimination? We have a lot of problems to deal with for a lot of people.[/quote]

Yes, I have seen the number of women pushed out of the workforce, in no small part to schools being closed.

THE REST OF US ALREADY WENT THROUGH THIS.  WE WERE TOLD WE SHOULD HAVE NOT HAD CHILDREN.  TEACHERS TOLD US TO HIRE CHILDCARE.

Also, you need science and to do some research on 3-year-olds covid risks, and understand why the rest of us got over it.

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The funny part is that many of us did in fact go out to hire childcare, and the above person is complaining that there is now a dearth of childcare available for teachers.[/quote]

I am NOT complaining about the dearth of options, I am simply being factual and empathetic. As I was with my other non-teacher friends (I am not a schoolteacher  by the way) who either had to quit their jobs or pay substantially more for childcare or accept care they were not comfortable with.

Is there not enough empathy and sympathy for everyone?[/quote]

Teachers treated us without empathy for 11 months and now they want some?

No.[/quote]

This is just plain projection. Teachers did not treat anyone without empathy.  Maybe a few here and there, but that is being online, not real life. The situation has been untenable but unchangeable for a good chunk of that time, so all the attacks on them have been mostly unnecessary. Where do you get the idea what every teacher is some heartless gorgon out for your blood? [/quote]

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