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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]as an APS teacher, I agree with you. I really hate that all parents have to preface everything with "I know teachers are working so hard" and "you are so amazing" so they don't come off as horrible and get beaten down by the crowd. distance learning sucks. I'm a HS teacher and hate that I am only allowed to be on camera with each class for 45 minutes twice a week (I'm not an AP teacher).

I am NOT familiar with elementary, so this next thought doesn't apply to younger grades, but I'm so fed up with secondary teachers saying they are working 15+ hour days and are such martyrs. they'd have to be ridiculously incompetent to need such long hours to transfer a class online that they've been teaching for years. I very much agree that some teachers are riding the DL train because they like working from home better (who doesn't?). I'm probably just jaded from reading too much AEM where parents have to bow down to teachers before asking a question, and then teachers jump down their throats about how parents are so privileged and don't care about the lives of teachers. eye roll. while it's not feasible this week due to rising numbers, I do believe we should be back in the classrooms (and should have been since september). DL doesn't work for many, MANY students. mine are suffering, mentally if not academically.[/quote]

I don’t want to be mean and I sympathize with your general frustrations, but it doesn’t seem like you’re following the discussion well. OP says she doesn’t see teachers on screen much and so she suspects teachers are taking advantage of the DL system. Other commenters said that just because she doesn’t see the kids on screen doesn’t mean they are doing nothing and a few actual elementary teachers have kindly given a breakdown of what they do. . You’re not addressing any of that, you’re just saying that teachers are riding the DL train with no evidence except that some teachers are saying they’re working long hours and you (rightly) suspect they’re exaggerating. You didn’t refute anything and definitely didn’t show that people are jumping down OP’s throat. TBH I hope you teach STEM or something else that doesn’t deal with logic or writing. [/quote]

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