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Anonymous wrote:I'm sorry, but school functions as child care for many families. When school buildings close, parents that can't work from home and can't magically conjure a new supply of child care during a pandemic, lose their incomes. If that offends you, I really can't help you, nor do I care to. You're on your own.

Why are they having children they cannot afford?

You are sad, pathetic, bored troll.

Anonymous wrote:I'm sorry, but school functions as child care for many families. When school buildings close, parents that can't work from home and can't magically conjure a new supply of child care during a pandemic, lose their incomes. If that offends you, I really can't help you, nor do I care to. You're on your own.

Why are they having children they cannot afford?

I'm sorry, but school functions as child care for many families. When school buildings close, parents that can't work from home and can't magically conjure a new supply of child care during a pandemic, lose their incomes. If that offends you, I really can't help you, nor do I care to. You're on your own.

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My teacher friend just retired early. And I don't blame her--she's not teaching summer school and she's not going back next year.

When you find out you are only a childcare worker, and people really don't care about their kids learning or about the teacher / childcare worker's health, why bother?

Why not retire early? Find another career? Do something people actually seem to value and don't scream at you over? Plenty of jobs out there now.

Oh can it with the child care thing. Do you not like it that women work outside the home? Or is your self-esteem just based entirely on being "more" than a lowly child care worker? I'm sorry that it offends you that the existential threat to women's careers associated with virtual learning is a problem for many families. Maybe have some perspective? Because I support teachers, I think they deserve better pay and more funding for school supplies and less bureaucracy, but as a woman who WOH and respects child care teachers, you lost me on this one.

It's not the school districts responsibility to deal with your childcare issues. What if your child fell seriously ill and couldnt attend school? What if a global pandemic happened and schools closed? Oh wait...

Right, still losing me. Why is it surprising that parents don't care about teachers, when teachers clearly don't care about parents? Oh, you're going to lose your job because you can no longer work without child care, and there were already severe child care shortages before the pandemic so it's not easy to find someone to care for your children? Not only is it not my problem, but IT'S OFFENSIVE TO ME THAT THIS IS STRESSFUL FOR YOU?"

I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of teachers left after how badly parents acted during the pandemic. I mean come on some felt they should put their lives at risk so they wouldn't be inconvenienced by their children.

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My teacher friend just retired early. And I don't blame her--she's not teaching summer school and she's not going back next year.

When you find out you are only a childcare worker, and people really don't care about their kids learning or about the teacher / childcare worker's health, why bother?

Why not retire early? Find another career? Do something people actually seem to value and don't scream at you over? Plenty of jobs out there now.

Oh can it with the child care thing. Do you not like it that women work outside the home? Or is your self-esteem just based entirely on being "more" than a lowly child care worker? I'm sorry that it offends you that the existential threat to women's careers associated with virtual learning is a problem for many families. Maybe have some perspective? Because I support teachers, I think they deserve better pay and more funding for school supplies and less bureaucracy, but as a woman who WOH and respects child care teachers, you lost me on this one.

It's not the school districts responsibility to deal with your childcare issues. What if your child fell seriously ill and couldnt attend school? What if a global pandemic happened and schools closed? Oh wait...

Right, still losing me. Why is it surprising that parents don't care about teachers, when teachers clearly don't care about parents? Oh, you're going to lose your job because you can no longer work without child care, and there were already severe child care shortages before the pandemic so it's not easy to find someone to care for your children? Not only is it not my problem, but IT'S OFFENSIVE TO ME THAT THIS IS STRESSFUL FOR YOU?"

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My teacher friend just retired early. And I don't blame her--she's not teaching summer school and she's not going back next year.

When you find out you are only a childcare worker, and people really don't care about their kids learning or about the teacher / childcare worker's health, why bother?

Why not retire early? Find another career? Do something people actually seem to value and don't scream at you over? Plenty of jobs out there now.

Oh can it with the child care thing. Do you not like it that women work outside the home? Or is your self-esteem just based entirely on being "more" than a lowly child care worker? I'm sorry that it offends you that the existential threat to women's careers associated with virtual learning is a problem for many families. Maybe have some perspective? Because I support teachers, I think they deserve better pay and more funding for school supplies and less bureaucracy, but as a woman who WOH and respects child care teachers, you lost me on this one.

It's not the school districts responsibility to deal with your childcare issues. What if your child fell seriously ill and couldnt attend school? What if a global pandemic happened and schools closed? Oh wait...

Anonymous wrote:

My teacher friend just retired early. And I don't blame her--she's not teaching summer school and she's not going back next year.

When you find out you are only a childcare worker, and people really don't care about their kids learning or about the teacher / childcare worker's health, why bother?

Why not retire early? Find another career? Do something people actually seem to value and don't scream at you over? Plenty of jobs out there now.

Oh can it with the child care thing. Do you not like it that women work outside the home? Or is your self-esteem just based entirely on being "more" than a lowly child care worker? I'm sorry that it offends you that the existential threat to women's careers associated with virtual learning is a problem for many families. Maybe have some perspective? Because I support teachers, I think they deserve better pay and more funding for school supplies and less bureaucracy, but as a woman who WOH and respects child care teachers, you lost me on this one.

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Anonymous wrote:Perhaps this year will be a teachable moment for communities to respect, fund, and support schools and their employees.

A teachable moment to do what? Perhaps if teachers got back inside the classroom earlier and for more days per week, you'd be onto something.

Lol. You trashed teachers way before COVID, constantly made comments about how they were overpaid, had summers off, weren’t smart or well educated, and then tried to pretend that the reason for the vitriol was the government’s failed response to the pandemic. Nice try! Teachers finally had enough when the additional demand of sacrificing safe working conditions and potential for killing their family members was thrown at them. You reap what you sow.

Hyperbole much?

Not hyperbole. 600,000 people died, including family members of teachers. Hard to believe! Try reading a newspaper sometime.

My teacher friend just retired early. And I don't blame her--she's not teaching summer school and she's not going back next year.

When you find out you are only a childcare worker, and people really don't care about their kids learning or about the teacher / childcare worker's health, why bother?

Why not retire early? Find another career? Do something people actually seem to value and don't scream at you over? Plenty of jobs out there now.

Anonymous wrote:The teachers who think summer school is child care- are you parents? I find it hard to believe that any teacher/parent would still cling to the tired line that parents want kids in buildings for childcare.
Have you returned, in person- and seen the truly transformative impact it’s had on your students? Have you sent your own kids back and seen the impact being back has had on your student/family.
As for those who are threatening to quit because of internet snark- grow up. People have ALWAYS hated teachers. So here your opportunity to see this just as a job. Don’t hold out for teacher appreciation week gifts- but also maybe stop reading internet hate. Teaching is a job. That’s it.
It’s fair and ok to take issue with how unions handled this past year. Teachers unions are not above reproach.

It may not be about childcare for YOU but it is about childcare for many other people. My sibling (not local) works in school administration and is routinely screamed at on the phone and by email by parents mostly of ES kids about WHAT DO YOU EXPECT ME TO DO????? I EXPECTED TO ONLY HAVE TO PAY FOR HALF DAYS OF CHILDCARE!!! I EXPECTED TO HAVE SUMMER SCHOOL SO MY KID WOULD HAVE SOMEWHERE TO GO THIS SUMMER WHILE I WORK!!"

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Anonymous wrote:Perhaps this year will be a teachable moment for communities to respect, fund, and support schools and their employees.

A teachable moment to do what? Perhaps if teachers got back inside the classroom earlier and for more days per week, you'd be onto something.

Lol. You trashed teachers way before COVID, constantly made comments about how they were overpaid, had summers off, weren’t smart or well educated, and then tried to pretend that the reason for the vitriol was the government’s failed response to the pandemic. Nice try! Teachers finally had enough when the additional demand of sacrificing safe working conditions and potential for killing their family members was thrown at them. You reap what you sow.

Hyperbole much?

Not hyperbole. 600,000 people died, including family members of teachers. Hard to believe! Try reading a newspaper sometime.

You have “prominent” parents from together again proudly posting about how her son failed to follow directions during class, so the teacher took away his computer and wrote the mom to tell her. Mom relied with some snark about how the teacher should do it more often and said the teacher never responded back. People were applauding her as if she was a hero. So let me get this straight, your son was the one kid in class who couldn’t stay on task while the other kids could, teacher probably dealt with this for awhile before taking away the computer, and writing home. Mom is proud of her insubordinate son who can’t follow expectations and rules, then wonders why the teacher didn’t respond. The teacher probably gave up on her as a parent because she didn’t indicate she cared to help change her child’s behavior. Instead of writing numerous op-Ed’s and constantly tweeting, maybe she should have also be doing her job as a parent. Teachers can’t be expected to do everything. Another one is whining today bc teachers didn’t show up on a Sunday for a thrown together 5th grade promotion ceremony and now thinks trust is broken. Teachers have lives outside of schools. It. Is. A. Sunday. Then the community wonders why teachers have had it...

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Anonymous wrote:Perhaps this year will be a teachable moment for communities to respect, fund, and support schools and their employees.

A teachable moment to do what? Perhaps if teachers got back inside the classroom earlier and for more days per week, you'd be onto something.

Lol. You trashed teachers way before COVID, constantly made comments about how they were overpaid, had summers off, weren’t smart or well educated, and then tried to pretend that the reason for the vitriol was the government’s failed response to the pandemic. Nice try! Teachers finally had enough when the additional demand of sacrificing safe working conditions and potential for killing their family members was thrown at them. You reap what you sow.

Hyperbole much?

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Anonymous wrote:Perhaps this year will be a teachable moment for communities to respect, fund, and support schools and their employees.

A teachable moment to do what? Perhaps if teachers got back inside the classroom earlier and for more days per week, you'd be onto something.

Lol. You trashed teachers way before COVID, constantly made comments about how they were overpaid, had summers off, weren’t smart or well educated, and then tried to pretend that the reason for the vitriol was the government’s failed response to the pandemic. Nice try! Teachers finally had enough when the additional demand of sacrificing safe working conditions and potential for killing their family members was thrown at them. You reap what you sow.

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Anonymous wrote:Perhaps this year will be a teachable moment for communities to respect, fund, and support schools and their employees.

A teachable moment to do what? Perhaps if teachers got back inside the classroom earlier and for more days per week, you'd be onto something.

You’re a moron. That is all. Pure trash.

C'mon - tell us what you really think!

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Anonymous wrote:Perhaps this year will be a teachable moment for communities to respect, fund, and support schools and their employees.

A teachable moment to do what? Perhaps if teachers got back inside the classroom earlier and for more days per week, you'd be onto something.

You’re a moron. That is all. Pure trash.