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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a teacher, I am so incredibly embarrassed for my profession right now. We have spent years trying to be seen as important, essential, professional, up to tackling challenges, etc. Now most of my colleagues are ranting dramatically and nonsensically all over social media while going on beach vacations and taking their kids to sports practices. I will be exiting this profession as soon as I possibly can. The whole show has been disgraceful. [/quote]

Agreed.  It just seems like no one was willing to make the sacrifices needed to return to in person learning this fall- or just didn't make the connection until it was too late.

However, IME those who were advocating against in-person learning are not necessarily the same ones complaining about DL now.  Many teachers with younger school-aged kids simply wanted to return to the classroom and now are really scrambling to figure out the logistics.  And there should have been more training this summer to help some of the non-technology savvy teachers navigate remote teaching.  [/quote]
"The sacrifices needed"-you are literally talking about people dying. Let's be clear here.[/quote]

Not that tired old body bag line again.  For example, "sacrifice" could have meant admininstrators and teachers training/prepping this summer so they're ready for fall.  But instead they're hiding behind their union contracts to say they're prohibited from doing any prep whatsoever this summer.  (And yes, I'd gladly pay them to prep this summer.)[/quote]
A couple notes here. "You" would "gladly pay" us, but we aren't actually being paid, so that's a useless promise. We aren't "hiding" behind contracts-we are literally off for the summer, without pay. I'm not sure you understand what a contract is. I can't plan even if I want to, because my district has absolutely ZERO information for how they are programming in the fall. I don't know if I'm teaching online, in person, or both. I don't know what subjects I'm teaching. You are embarrassing yourself-you have no idea what our jobs are like. Do you know that sometimes teachers find out they are teaching a different grade the day before school starts? We can't just "make plans", no matter how angry that makes you. [/quote]

School districts and teachers should have come together earlier this summer to hammer out additional pay so everyone can be trained over the summer.  Instead admins and teachers just retreated into their corners and said they're "off the clock."  Also, I constantly have to do professional development outside my working hours, and I don't get paid for any of that.  So some of this is also just about the kind of attitude you bring to work.[/quote]

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