Anonymous wrote:As I type this I’m sitting here watching my kids soccer coach facilitate a socially distanced soccer practice with masks and outdoor practice and all kids are staying 6 feet apart. My soccer coach is showing more resilience and creativity and commitment than my overpriced school...

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone who has school-age children is trying to manage remote learning this year. I can understand not wanting to pay $35k for online learning that you can get through your county for free — I would not pay that either. So withdraw. But teachers do not have to risk dying because you do not want to balance working, children at home, and their education. You are not special.

Funny how the rest of the country stepped up. Grocery store workers, cleaners, hospital custodians, daycare providers, warehouse workers, delivery truck drivers etc, all showed up during a pandemic.

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Anonymous wrote:“Under any circumstance this fall, teachers are basically having to completely re-train themselves. All the years of student teaching and advanced degrees did not train them to be online teachers or in-person teachers to students who are supposed to adhere to the mitigation strategies.“

Didn’t you have all summer to “re-train”? Isn’t the school providing resources to attend classes and seminars, etc. to train you how to teach online? Why would you have to re-train yourself this fall?

Teachers aren’t contacted to work in the summer.

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Anonymous wrote:“Under any circumstance this fall, teachers are basically having to completely re-train themselves. All the years of student teaching and advanced degrees did not train them to be online teachers or in-person teachers to students who are supposed to adhere to the mitigation strategies.“

Didn’t you have all summer to “re-train”? Isn’t the school providing resources to attend classes and seminars, etc. to train you how to teach online? Why would you have to re-train yourself this fall?

Teachers aren’t contacted to work in the summer.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“Under any circumstance this fall, teachers are basically having to completely re-train themselves. All the years of student teaching and advanced degrees did not train them to be online teachers or in-person teachers to students who are supposed to adhere to the mitigation strategies.“

Didn’t you have all summer to “re-train”? Isn’t the school providing resources to attend classes and seminars, etc. to train you how to teach online? Why would you have to re-train yourself this fall?

Teachers aren’t contacted to work in the summer.

Anonymous wrote:“Under any circumstance this fall, teachers are basically having to completely re-train themselves. All the years of student teaching and advanced degrees did not train them to be online teachers or in-person teachers to students who are supposed to adhere to the mitigation strategies.“

Didn’t you have all summer to “re-train”? Isn’t the school providing resources to attend classes and seminars, etc. to train you how to teach online? Why would you have to re-train yourself this fall?

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone who has school-age children is trying to manage remote learning this year. I can understand not wanting to pay $35k for online learning that you can get through your county for free — I would not pay that either. So withdraw. But teachers do not have to risk dying because you do not want to balance working, children at home, and their education. You are not special.

Funny how the rest of the country stepped up. Grocery store workers, cleaners, hospital custodians, daycare providers, warehouse workers, delivery truck drivers etc, all showed up during a pandemic.

yeah teaching a group of 15 kids all day is exactly like driving a truck or cleaning somewhere. How often are truck drivers having to actually interact with people? Or cleaners or even grocery store workers? Those jobs you listed are JUST like teaching...and doing those jobs in a pandemic is TOTALLY different then how they are done during a non-pandemic just like teaching. Teachers are just whining and just want to stay home. because they LOVE working 12 hour days to try to make a bunch of pissed off parents happy and figure out some way to reach kids and educate them despite the problems...yeah pretty lazy

I don't know a single teacher that would not prefer in-person. They just don't want to risk their lives to deliver drastically inferior educational product, especially if they are trained as progressive educators. Maybe it works ok at a school where it's lecture, textbook, and worksheet based...

Under any circumstance this fall, teachers are basically having to completely re-train themselves. All the years of student teaching and advanced degrees did not train them to be online teachers or in-person teachers to students who are supposed to adhere to the mitigation strategies.

It's not just a matter of slapping on a mask and doing your job the same way as before, as it is with the other careers you listed. Give teachers a break. And no one entered teaching for the $$$...most entered for the children so yeah, they want things to be back to normal too.

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone who has school-age children is trying to manage remote learning this year. I can understand not wanting to pay $35k for online learning that you can get through your county for free — I would not pay that either. So withdraw. But teachers do not have to risk dying because you do not want to balance working, children at home, and their education. You are not special.

Funny how the rest of the country stepped up. Grocery store workers, cleaners, hospital custodians, daycare providers, warehouse workers, delivery truck drivers etc, all showed up during a pandemic.

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learning that you can get through your county for free — I would not pay that either. So withdraw. But teachers do not have to risk dying because you do not want to balance working, children at home, and their education. You are not special.

I mean, no clearly I am not special, because I cannot tell my job that I refuse to come in and just keep my job indefinitely working from home. I've been told I have to start coming into work.

Exactly.

Anonymous wrote:

Everyone who has school-age children is trying to manage remote learning this year. I can understand not wanting to pay $35k for online learning that you can get through your county for free — I would not pay that either. So withdraw. But teachers do not have to risk dying because you do not want to balance working, children at home, and their education. You are not special.

I wouldn't disagree that withdrawal is a good option at this point.

Anonymous wrote:Tuition at Burgundy is 35 K? What a ripoff!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone who has school-age children is trying to manage remote learning this year. I can understand not wanting to pay $35k for online learning that you can get through your county for free — I would not pay that either. So withdraw. But teachers do not have to risk dying because you do not want to balance working, children at home, and their education. You are not special.

Funny how the rest of the country stepped up. Grocery store workers, cleaners, hospital custodians, daycare providers, warehouse workers, delivery truck drivers etc, all showed up during a pandemic.

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learning that you can get through your county for free — I would not pay that either. So withdraw. But teachers do not have to risk dying because you do not want to balance working, children at home, and their education. You are not special.

I mean, no clearly I am not special, because I cannot tell my job that I refuse to come in and just keep my job indefinitely working from home. I've been told I have to start coming into work.