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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m so sick people asserting that since nurses do something, then teachers should do the same. It’s a false equivalency. The job of a nurse is to provide care to sick or injured people. They are fully aware of what they’re signing up for when they decide to go to school to become a nurse. They are aware that they will be on the front lines in the event of a pandemic or whatever health issue people are facing.  Same with EMTs/firefighters/police officers etc. They are first responders. It’s in the job description that they will be putting themselves in danger and they knowingly sign up for that.

In what world are teachers in the same category as the aforementioned? No one gets an education degree assuming they will have to teach germy children in a pandemic. Let’s keep it real here. No one would care this much or be this opinionated about how teachers do their job in a pandemic if they weren’t just upset that they lost their free childcare. That’s what this is about.

And with this post, I’m out. I’m not even a teacher but I’m so so done with these threads and the teacher bashing that goes on here. It’s gross and reveals how disgusting most of humanity is when people don’t have control over a situation and would prefer for others (who didn’t sign up for it), plus their own children, to put their health at risk so that they don’t have to be inconvenienced in any way.

Good luck, all. I hope you get some perspective one day. You sorely need it.

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That’s fine.  Why do teachers then expect a paycheck if they can’t perform their duties.  I would rather school districts procure online curriculum designed to work for remote learning and hire personnel that are are capable of providing remote learning supplementation.  If that means a current teacher loses her job because he/she doesn’t have sufficient child care to perform a full day’s worth of remote learning work, so be it.  Especially now since teachers say remote learning is not their area of expertise (their teaching degree did not provide them this training) and if remote learning is the new norm, school districts need to hire personnel who have the expertise or can obtain the expertise over the summer, weekends, and evenings if they want to teach in this new reality and receive a paycheck.  Currently, the teacher’s attitude is poor me, I still deserve a paycheck and it’s the school districts responsibility in training me etc.  In the real world, employees have to adapt and take initiative to keep their jobs, why should teachers be any different.[/quote]

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