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Yes teachers are just like doctors what with all the respect, support and money they get from society. Everyone wants someone else to make the sacrifice for them, but god forbid Larla has to be sad and her parents have to sacrifice for her. [/quote]

I'd say teachers get more respect and money than supermarket workers. And yet the latter are doing their jobs despite some risk.[/quote]

Retail workers, home health care aides, other medical workers who aren't doctors, bus drivers, delivery people, construction workers, truck drivers, warehouse workers, food manufacturing workers, building services workers, mail carriers...

And it's not about Larla's sadness, or at least not only about Larla's sadness (though mental health is also a public-health factor, just like covid). It's about Larla's education.

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I'm sure if someone did a poll of all the retail workers, warehouse workers, waitresses and whatever other job you'd find a percentage of them refusing to go back to work.

I don't think teachers are any different in that regard.  Some teachers are willing to go back to work.  Others aren't.  The big difference is that teachers have unions to protect them.  People without unions just have to quit or find something else to do.

I put medical workers in a separate category.  Risk of deadly infection has always been part and parcel of their line of work, and it's natural for them to accept it.  It's like people signing up to be cops.  They accept that there are potentially deadly health risks to being a cop.

Most people who signed up to be teachers never expected to be on the front lines of a pandemic.  I'm not surprised that many of them are balking.   [/quote]

NP. I don't know what the rules are in the US, but it's now clear to me why in Germany, a country with otherwise strong unions (and where teachers also have a union), forbids teachers, and public employees in general, to go on strike. Teaching is considered a public service that needs to be rendered no matter what. The service cannot be held hostage because that would harm the general public, which is not a direct party to the negotiations.[/quote]

US has a completely different history with teaching/education.  It’s historically very undervalued in the US, which has led to enormous problems.  There is a reason unions developed.  The historical context is also part of why you see these very strong reactions here.  Teachers’ reactions can’t be decontextualized; they are defensive because of decades and decades of issues in their profession and generally being attacked.  It’s quite different in other countries.[/quote]

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