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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I, too, want to be back in person. Last year was exhausting.  I am on the teacher FB group and I haven’t seen any posts about teachers wanting to start virtual nor have I heard anyone from my school say this.[/quote]

There is a discussion about how nervous everyone is. [/quote]

Curious if these were teachers who were in person in spring? I was nervous (despite believing being in-person was the right thing and intellectually knowing the risks were low) until I set foot in school and then it was easy to be there. I have been assuming this year would be similar. You just have to do it.[/quote]

THIS. People who haven’t been out much in 18 months are far more nervous than people who have. It’s not some big bogey man.[/quote]

This is absolutely true. It’s a real thing, called anxious avoidance. And the longer you avoid doing something he worse you build it up in your head. Any clinical psychologist will tell you that avoiding something you are nervous about is pretty much the worst thing you can do in terms of contributing to your anxiety level about it.

I’m not suggesting people throw caution to the wind. But I think some people on the most extreme end are going to need something akin to exposure therapy in order to avoid having a panic attack when they venture out in public. Past pandemics in other countries have provided us data on this. [/quote]

It'll be interesting to see how that hits kids. Of course, we've always been told they're "resilient" when it comes to DL so who knows. It's just mindblowing to think that many kids haven't stepped inside a school building for almost 1.5 years. [/quote]

My DD is in HS and has anxiety issues.  She did not want to go back last spring.  We made her. And then made her go up to 4 days when offered. It was hard for her the first week of 2 days and the first week of 4.  And the HS was empty. Some classes only had 2-3 kids.  By later April, she was doing much better than I had seen her in a year.  If we had allowed her to stay home last spring, we never would have gotten her back this fall, straight into full capacity. The transition back with less crowding was helpful. [/quote]

As a teacher, you did the right thing. Very few people want to face reality that kids only just returning this august after 1.5 years out of a school are going to have a really hard time readjusting. School is very mentally draining and over stimulating, the go go go after getting to do DL from your house will be a shock. Just getting back into a routine with a building full of kids will be very tough on some of them. And then there’s the annoying teachers who did DL last year and act like returning is something horrific daunting feat despite the fact most of us did it last year and almost none got Covid. Some of them are so dramatic [/quote]

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