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Anonymous wrote:Also, let’s not kid ourselves that schools will go back to normal in terms of academics once they reopen. Equity will be immediately put on the agenda and teachers will be dealing with kids who are now light years behind.
Also: masked PE, outside in the heat? Absurd. Inside, maybe.
Also: socializing? Kids will be policed and there will be no resources left for any kind of socio emotional learning.

Our private has been open since the start of the school year. For PE, they do it outside or inside (depends on weather) but I get the impression it's not 30 minutes of intense cardio anyway.

For recess, the blacktop is marked off so each class has their own segment to play in. They still socialize fine while following the rules. Our 2nd grader reports the kids have made up various playground games where they can keep their distance and still have fun. Kids can adapt.

It’s a private school.

That sounds miserable.

It will be much more miserable in public schools

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Anonymous wrote:Pfizer is expanding their trial to kids 12 and up. Previously at 16.

I want to preface my statement by saying that I am glad the drug companies are working on finding a vaccine. But, wow, what parents are putting their kids into these trials? It seems so mind bogglingly unsafe to me. I want a vaccine but I want a little more work and testing with animals first.

I have two guesses: 1) certain foster parents 2) bleeding hearts, kind of like people who enroll their kids into GS2 schools for equity reasons

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Anonymous wrote:Also, let’s not kid ourselves that schools will go back to normal in terms of academics once they reopen. Equity will be immediately put on the agenda and teachers will be dealing with kids who are now light years behind.
Also: masked PE, outside in the heat? Absurd. Inside, maybe.
Also: socializing? Kids will be policed and there will be no resources left for any kind of socio emotional learning.

Our private has been open since the start of the school year. For PE, they do it outside or inside (depends on weather) but I get the impression it's not 30 minutes of intense cardio anyway.

For recess, the blacktop is marked off so each class has their own segment to play in. They still socialize fine while following the rules. Our 2nd grader reports the kids have made up various playground games where they can keep their distance and still have fun. Kids can adapt.

It’s a private school.

That sounds miserable.

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Anonymous wrote:Also, let’s not kid ourselves that schools will go back to normal in terms of academics once they reopen. Equity will be immediately put on the agenda and teachers will be dealing with kids who are now light years behind.
Also: masked PE, outside in the heat? Absurd. Inside, maybe.
Also: socializing? Kids will be policed and there will be no resources left for any kind of socio emotional learning.

Our private has been open since the start of the school year. For PE, they do it outside or inside (depends on weather) but I get the impression it's not 30 minutes of intense cardio anyway.

For recess, the blacktop is marked off so each class has their own segment to play in. They still socialize fine while following the rules. Our 2nd grader reports the kids have made up various playground games where they can keep their distance and still have fun. Kids can adapt.

It’s a private school.

Anonymous wrote:I am completely repulsed by the teachers responding to this thread. Can you not see how you are turning the entire country against you? You have lost any respect you may have previously had.

We are currently looking to move our kids to private as soon as possible, and will not look back.

Actually some of us are parents. Teachers have no say in if they go back or not. I think you are a bigger disappointment as a parent who doesn't want to support or take care of their kids during the day and insists its the school's job. Move to private... enjoy.

I am completely repulsed by the teachers responding to this thread. Can you not see how you are turning the entire country against you? You have lost any respect you may have previously had.

We are currently looking to move our kids to private as soon as possible, and will not look back.

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Anonymous wrote:Is that for the adult vaccine? Or one that's safe for children?

The unions will insist on no in person school until all kids are vaccinated - which is not happening! The child vaccine is not even in trials yet. Omg how can people not see that no school is so convenient for so many adults in the school system????

Teachers have a right to be healthy. Just because you find it convenient to ignore, doesn't mean vaccines aren't necessary to ensure that.

So you are ok with no in person school till 2022-2023 at the earliest?

DP. I certainly am!!! DL is working great for our family (elementary and middle schools). Our kids are doing well, they are healthy and happy and relaxed. We are happy about DL and much prefer DL to hybrid, which sounds pretty awful.

utterly absurd. feds will be back in the office by spring/summer. So we all have to hire FT nannies?

What's absurd is that you feel entitled to sit safely at home on your rump working untli spring/summer, but demand to force teachers and other school employees into unsafe conditions to be your babysitters.

How about this? The moment you all go back to work full-time, in office, schools will open. Problem solved.

I literally know 0 parents who would not take you up on that.

yep.

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Anonymous wrote:Teachers are living in a fantasy world if they think they are going to sit home for years.

Parents should simply withdraw en masse.

Parents are living in a fantasy world if they think anyone cares if they withdraw en masse.

You know what happens when you do? Nothing.

Property taxes still keep rolling in and so do salaries.

Good luck affording private school for your offspring though. I hear 18-21 years of education payments are a bitch.

Nice try. No enrollment means no job for you.

LOL This entire area's school systems are overcrowded and have been for decades. Its so bad kids are on rotation in trailers. Fairfax enrollment has already gone down what 5%? That just makes it closer to having actually normal classroom student-to-teacher ratios. I look forward to it.

Lol. No one will want you for a teacher since you are OK SCREWING kids over.

Get back to the office or get fired.

Parents are really embarrassing themselves here. Concerning that you are raising children and are so disrespectful and immature.

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Anonymous wrote:Guys the last page of "teacher" posts is likely one overreacting teacher or a troll. Teachers themselves care deeply for their students and their current suffering. They are stuck right now on 1) fear of the unknown and 2) thinking that all their hard work on DL will surely pay off (it won't). Even this arguing teacher likely does even as she plays provocateur.

Life will force their hand. This can't go on. They will be back in the classroom next year or on leave.

Actually, I don't think so. Even if the states begin fast-tracking applicants and lowering their standards, I don't think the states will be able to meet the need for teachers. Too many teachers are getting fed up by the constant attacking mode that they see on social media.

How is the relationship with the parents of your students. Good right? Social media isn't real life and if you make decisions based on that you are have long hard road ahead of you. Your own parents probably post here in frustration, but they support you. Deal with the relationships that are real, and yes, plan to be back next fall or on leave even though numbers will be the same as now. You will have a vaccine that is 50% effective to take. And some plasma remedies if you get sick. It will be fine.

If teachers look like they won't come back, I predict 3 month teacher provisional certification programs will prop up. I LOVE my kids teachers, but would take a brand new completely undertrained in person teacher over a fabulous dl teacher any day. At least until grade 4 or 5 a bad teacher in the classroom is better than a good teacher onlibe.

Anonymous wrote:Guys the last page of "teacher" posts is likely one overreacting teacher or a troll. Teachers themselves care deeply for their students and their current suffering. They are stuck right now on 1) fear of the unknown and 2) thinking that all their hard work on DL will surely pay off (it won't). Even this arguing teacher likely does even as she plays provocateur.

Life will force their hand. This can't go on. They will be back in the classroom next year or on leave.

Actually, I don't think so. Even if the states begin fast-tracking applicants and lowering their standards, I don't think the states will be able to meet the need for teachers. Too many teachers are getting fed up by the constant attacking mode that they see on social media.

Anonymous wrote:Pfizer is expanding their trial to kids 12 and up. Previously at 16.

I want to preface my statement by saying that I am glad the drug companies are working on finding a vaccine. But, wow, what parents are putting their kids into these trials? It seems so mind bogglingly unsafe to me. I want a vaccine but I want a little more work and testing with animals first.

Guys the last page of "teacher" posts is likely one overreacting teacher or a troll. Teachers themselves care deeply for their students and their current suffering. They are stuck right now on 1) fear of the unknown and 2) thinking that all their hard work on DL will surely pay off (it won't). Even this arguing teacher likely does even as she plays provocateur.

Life will force their hand. This can't go on. They will be back in the classroom next year or on leave.

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Anonymous wrote:Teachers are living in a fantasy world if they think they are going to sit home for years.

Parents should simply withdraw en masse.

Parents are living in a fantasy world if they think anyone cares if they withdraw en masse.

You know what happens when you do? Nothing.

Property taxes still keep rolling in and so do salaries.

Good luck affording private school for your offspring though. I hear 18-21 years of education payments are a bitch.

Nice try. No enrollment means no job for you.

LOL This entire area's school systems are overcrowded and have been for decades. Its so bad kids are on rotation in trailers. Fairfax enrollment has already gone down what 5%? That just makes it closer to having actually normal classroom student-to-teacher ratios. I look forward to it.

Lol. No one will want you for a teacher since you are OK SCREWING kids over.

Get back to the office or get fired.

Keep repeating the same mantra. I'll see you crying for it still in March.

I am in a district where the teachers are happy to be in the classroom teaching. And are doing so with great success and no Covid.

They are caring professionals unlike you, loser.

So umm...why are you here?

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Anonymous wrote:Teachers are living in a fantasy world if they think they are going to sit home for years.

Parents should simply withdraw en masse.

Parents are living in a fantasy world if they think anyone cares if they withdraw en masse.

You know what happens when you do? Nothing.

Property taxes still keep rolling in and so do salaries.

Good luck affording private school for your offspring though. I hear 18-21 years of education payments are a bitch.

Nice try. No enrollment means no job for you.

LOL This entire area's school systems are overcrowded and have been for decades. Its so bad kids are on rotation in trailers. Fairfax enrollment has already gone down what 5%? That just makes it closer to having actually normal classroom student-to-teacher ratios. I look forward to it.

Lol. No one will want you for a teacher since you are OK SCREWING kids over.

Get back to the office or get fired.

Keep repeating the same mantra. I'll see you crying for it still in March.

I am in a district where the teachers are happy to be in the classroom teaching. And are doing so with great success and no Covid.

They are caring professionals unlike you, loser.

Parents who want to resign en masse - please start a petition. Some marches would be good to. It'd be great to put some faces and names to these idiotic rants.