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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In case anyone is wondering how APS teachers feel about a specific group of parents, here is an APS teacher (now former) who put her name on it --

[i]At first, when schools moved to online instruction in the spring of 2020 and parents saw firsthand the hardships teachers were enduring, plaudits poured in for the educators showing remarkable commitment to their profession in a difficult situation they had never trained for. Virtual teaching took much more time to prepare, execute and evaluate. And because students were often not required to turn on their cameras, it was a lot like teaching into a void. [b]But as time crawled on and schools remained closed to in-person instruction, parents became critical, even angry. The hostility parents leveled against teachers was astonishing.[/b] In September 2021 alone, 30,000 public school teachers nationwide gave notice. Between August 2020 and August 2021, Florida’s teacher vacancies surged 67 percent, according to a count by the Florida Education Association. In 2021, California’s largest district, Los Angeles Unified, had five times the number of vacancies as in previous years, according to Shannon Haber, a spokeswoman for the district. The number of retirements skyrocketed, and I joined the exodus. I was within a couple of years of my target retirement date, but I left earlier than planned because of the mounting stress around the pandemic and an ever-increasing workload. [/i]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/03/08/teachers-woes-vulnerable-profession-robbins/?fbclid=IwAR2UZodgy4iGVxCs8_X8Jp-yrhrMPKsHd6lhvFl5CAJ6rpmbqn9jA0FgT1o[/quote]

I have a teacher in my immediate family and this really resonates.

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As a parent, I think this is all very true and how I've perceived things. HOWEVER, not ALL teachers are heroes. There ABSOLUTELY WERE teachers seemingly not making much effort during virtual learning and there ARE ABSOLUTELY teachers who didn't and still don't pull their weight in the classroom. Not all teachers are good teachers. Why is it so unconscionable to suggest that?[/quote]

If you have an issue with an individual teacher you can bring it up with him/her or the principal. You don’t need to aggressively trash the entire profession. 
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