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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a professor, I had essentially three days to convert my in person classes to online DL classes.  It was really hard but I did it.

Now, this summer, I am completely revamping my classes so I will have both a regular, in-person version of class and an online version of class ready to go.  I am on a 9 month contract, like most professors, and so I am spending my unpaid time preparing for teaching in the fall, whether it be DL, F2F, or hybrid.   We honestly don't how what it will be, so we are ALL preparing for any circumstances.

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 was a high school teacher (and did a stint in middle) before I went back to school, got a PhD, and became a professor. College level teaching is SO MUCH EASIER than high school teaching. I do make significantly more than I made teaching HS and live in a much less expensive area. My responsibilities outside of teaching are much greater at the uni, but I do work at a teaching focused uni.

For those that are curious, I miss teaching high school all the time. I sometimes think about going back to it. Because of the schedule, age, and format, it was much easier to get to know the high schoolers; they are fun and interesting and really sorting themselves out as people. Despite enjoying the age more, there were so many things about teaching HS that were torture: extreme lack of resources in one way or another, constant switching of "improvement" plans, being punished for things we had absolutely no control over, and extremely disruptive students that would be there EVERY DAY. In addition, my high schoolers were more likely to have more severe problems outside of school: food insecurity, homelessness, abusive or disruptive home life, etc.

I am in the exact same boat as the prof I quoted above (wonder if we're at the same school). In addition, we were told we need to have an online and in version of our classes running at the same time because students who are sick/in quarantine will need to keep up. I'm not happy about having to prepare twice and run two classes for every class I teach. I have complained a lot about it, but I am doing it. I am lucky I have the time and money to do so. [/quote]

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