Reply to Safety of teachers and school staff when returning to a school setting in August

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "Safety of teachers and school staff when returning to a school setting in August"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]New York closed its schools ONE WEEK later than we did, and 21 teachers DIED.

I'm a parent, and exposing our teachers to that kind of risk is simply not an acceptable option.

There are tons of better options -- we just don't have the political will to get there.

We could pay people to stay at home and take care of their children
We could put more resources toward teachers -- what if there was a tech support staffer for every three teachers, and the teachers put the lessons together, but the tech person put them online and organized everything for a streamlined experience? What if we added more support teachers so that teachers had fewer students per teacher? 
We could make sure that unemployment payments for families were adequate, (and pay people to take care of their children)
For teachers that are also caregivers, we could make sure their extra burden and contribution to the community is recognized, both financially and time-wise

But we don't do any of this. We assume family responsibility is not work, we them blame people for not having the resources to manage it, frame reproductive work and raising the next generation as "individual" choice -- and worse, we let billionaires siphon all of the money out of the economy so we are fighting over the scraps.
[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics