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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really wish I could tell whether this article is wise advice or just another UMC professional working from home who is sick of having his children underfoot (I googled — he has two children). In this debate it is so hard to separate the message from the messenger. People are more than happy to embrace risk when it’s not a risk to them personally.[/quote]

How is that parents aren't undertaking any risk?  I hear this a lot.  If their kids go to school and get COVID, there's a high chance they might pass it on to their parents.  Parents are at risk.  Interhousehold transmission is high.

[b]I think your point is that parents are willing to take that risk because they will derive a clear and significant benefit from it -- namely a huge increase in the quality of education of their children.

Teachers are not willing to take the risk because there's no such benefit to them, other than general society benefit.  It's just human nature than that really isn't a motivating force like personal benefi[/b]t. 
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Exactly this. There's no upside for teachers to go to work. [/quote]

The “upside” to teachers to do their jobs should be that they get paid, and if they don’t do their jobs then they don’t get paid. The requirements of their jobs are clearly described in their employment contracts, and don’t involve sitting at home all day in their pajamas collecting full pay.

They could have offered some new positions to certain teachers for the DL stuff, at half pay. Some people would have done it, and some not. That’s fine. They could have grouped more kids together for the distance “learning”. But teachers should only have been getting full pay for doing their actual job.[/quote]

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