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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a teacher. I will go back when I’m asked to go back, but if they tell me I can teach from home forever[b] I’d happily do that too[/b].  My job is to teach, that’s what I’m doing. My job is not to fight leadership about what that teaching should look like.

The idea that I’m a bad teacher because I’m not fighting the FEA rhetoric is ridiculous. I’m not an FEA member, I want nothing to do with it. I just want to write my lessons and teach my students, wherever the location is.[/quote]

I'm curious. What grade do you teach? I teach a primary grade and I don't know anybody who would make that statement.[/quote]

My husband [b]teaches middle school math[/b] and likes teaching from home. I told him fcps may offer more virtual learning in the future so go ahead and apply for a job doing it full time if he wants. He would go back whenever but likes it more than he thought. [/quote]

Right. He doesn't teach kindergarten, first, second, or third grade. I don't know anyone in those grade levels who says they like this or want to do it long term. I'm sure some do, but this entire school year many I know have been saying this is not sustainable and as we go further into the school year the sentiment is growing. I hear the frustrations daily. I'm not going to put lipstick on a pig.[/quote]

I would absolutely LOATHE teaching ES virtually.  If I were Queen of FFX County, I would have put all the resources and space into making K-5 happen.  I know the HS and MS students are suffering but the little ones NEED in person instruction.  [/quote]

Every teacher I know including myself believes this. We COULD have been putting all the resources and planning into in person k-5 and self contained sped and EL1. All PPE to them, mitigation can be strictly enforced at those numbers. 6-12 needed to be out of the convo long ago when the data didn’t support them returning safely and not spreading. Unfortunately, no school system has been willing to tell secondary parents “your kids CAN DO this online” so they could prioritize elementary which means ultimately , though little ones are much less susceptible to spread and infection, they were held out exactly the same as the older kids at higher risk.

The biggest failure isn’t not opening at all. It’s that elementary and high needs groups could have been all this time if we had just been willing to admit some honors and AP level junior wanting to be in school doesn’t mean they can’t do it online and actually prioritized the group who needed to be in school and could have done it safer.

To put it another way: a first grader will have missed all this school because a senior who is 18 years old and been accepted to college couldn’t go in too. [/quote]

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