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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Daycare workers have been working with children for months. They are working with young children much more closely than any school teacher would ever work with children in a classroom.

Teachers aren’t more susceptible they simply are more organized and better paid so they feel they are entitled to teach from home and those poor people who have low wage jobs like daycare deserve to work because they get an education, they didn’t work as hard, etc

Every single time you think it’s so dangerous for teachers to be in a classroom where they will have minimal one on one contact with children stop and remember that everyday daycare workers are working with young children - holding them, helping them eat, helping them wash hands and so on - and everyday they come in contact with those children’s parents and are in a building all day with other adults. And then remember that there are kids that are 4,5 and even 6 because yes those ages are in daycares right now and are the same ages of children that teaches argued they can’t be around.

The argument teachers are making is they are “better than” so how dare they be expected to work. I have no respect for any of the teachers. I have even less respect for those who champion their faux cause. [/quote]

There are a lot of jobs which have terrible working conditions.  Daycare work is one of them.  Why would I aspire to have similarly terrible working conditions? That makes no sense.

I do feel responsible for my students, but I have 160 of them and they change every year, so it is ridiculous to expect from me the same level of personal investment in them that parents have.

It astonishes me that people think “guilting” teachers back into the school building is an effective persuasive technique.  Do they do that to nurses, too?  If all of the nurses at our local hospital quit because they deemed the risk wasn’t worth the pay, and if the hospital couldn’t easily restaff because, hello, nursing shortage... how many people would tell them “You OWE it to society to DO YOUR JOB?”  Not many, I would think.  No, the hospital would figure out a way to improve working conditions or add more enticement to draw them back in (such as extra hazard pay).  No one seems to have thought of doing that for teachers.  Instead, FCPS froze step increases and pay raises and will require a model of teaching (concurrent) that creates twice as much work for us.  Many schools aren’t providing much reassurance that PPE is plentiful and that proper social distancing can take place.  Why on earth would I be enthusiastic about going back to that?[/quote]

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