Anonymous wrote:Private school teachers are about to be out of a job when their private schools go out of business due to lack of enrollment after this utter catastrophe

Our school suddenly has wait lists for most grades from all the parents switching from publics, but ok.

Education/teaching are essential functions. Bring the youngest grades back first.

Private school teacher here who resents any private school teacher who says they speak for all of us. I am appropriately apprehensive but prefer to teach in person. I was disappointed when my school reversed course and chose to do everything virtually.

Parents are scared too, OP. There is no playbook for this. It doesn't help that we're getting absolutely ZERO guidance from the county in the way of metrics. Unfortunately, the loudest groups are the parents who insist everyone must go back and teachers be damned, and the teachers who insist that nothing is safe and parents are sending them to their deaths. I think most parents and teachers are more in the middle, and more tempered voices are being drowned out. My personal view is that the only way to see how it will go is to try - even if that means starting small the way some schools are doing and bringing a grade or two back at a time. Give schools a chance to test their plans. Give kids a chance to show they can adapt to less social contact, more computers, more rules. Enforce the hell out of those rules. Stay cautious, but move forward. Otherwise it's all speculation and we'll never get out of this.

Private school teacher here and I'm not scared. I read the protocols in place for our private and I feel confident that the teachers, parents, staff and students can open school and have a great experience. The situation will change and the school may go to DL or may allow more than 50% of the school to attend at a time. Our school will learn from this opening and other schools may be able to use "what worked" and avoid what "didn't work".
Waiting for a vaccine is not the only way for schools to open. Schools have some very smart minded people and I suggest they come up with solutions.

Anonymous wrote:Everyone is scared. Teachers are not different than anyone else and I’m so tired of hearing about how THEY feel as if it trumps every other working member of society.

I don't think it's meant to trump anyone else, but just as a response to people demanding they return to work. I'm a lawyer and no one is demanding that I return to work (that I do my work, yes, but not that I do it in person). It's ridiculous.

Anonymous wrote:Everyone is scared. Teachers are not different than anyone else and I’m so tired of hearing about how THEY feel as if it trumps every other working member of society.

Haha nope not everyone is scared. Just weak minded sheep who haven't broken outta the reprehensible media spell.

Anonymous wrote:I won’t say which school I’m affiliated with but just want you to know that many are scared to come back and they are making it known to their Heads of School. Our teachers are not unique; this is the general sentiment among private school teachers I this area who are having to teach in person. Those of you who think it will be sunshine and roses and business as usual are sorely mistaken. Think no papers collected from students, all assessments done online, no library books either from the regular school library or the classroom library, etc.

Valid only if older than 65, obese or diagnosed health issues.

But hey, go ahead and represent the new America to the rest of the worlds teachers who are working in person.

Also note the power public teachers union lobby, also only found in America.

Keep it up DC area, keep it up. Companies are hearing all about it too, why be based here?

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Anonymous wrote:life is sooooooooooo hard for you.

+1000 Don’t you think frontline healthcare workers might be a little scared too?

I know they are scared because three of the practices we use are still telemedicine only. It’s frustrating, but I respect that they decided to protect their staff and the family of the staff.

I am talking hospital employees, also we may as well include food service workers, cashiers, delivery people, police, hairdressers, mail delivery, etc. Why should teachers be an exception?

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Anonymous wrote:Tell that to retail store workers.

I’m OP and I’m not a teacher. Right, or to the front line and other health care workers taking care of the teachers' children.

I never said that they are worse off than any of these other workers who have returned to work. My point was that the sentiment on this board makes it seem like these teachers are excited to return to school and they will be as nurturing, loving and ambitious as in previous years. That’s not the case and there’s really nothing Admin can do about it because no one is lining up to take their jobs.

First of all, most essential workers are not “returning” to work, they have been working the entire time. Many frontline essential workers make as much money as you do, maybe even less, and are facing extremely difficult and potentially dangerous working conditions, but they show up everyday willing and able to work. Most teachers have been out of school since the beginning of March, and off the entire summer. What other professions had that luxury?

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Anonymous wrote:Tell that to retail store workers.

That's right. Tell it to those people who get paid less than teachers, are most likely living paycheck to paycheck, and who most likely can't switch to a different line of work.

Whereas all those white collar office workers (lawyers, consultants, etc.) who are currently working from home -- well, you're all big chickens and, if you're scolding teachers for being afraid, you're hypocrites too!

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Anonymous wrote:Private school teachers are about to be out of a job when their private schools go out of business due to lack of enrollment after this utter catastrophe

To be clear - the catastrophe here is the pandemic. If schools go under, it is because of the pandemic - not because of teachers, administrators, or county leaders.

The catastrophe is the teachers putting their histrionics ahead of all else and abandoning their students while apparently still expecting to get paid. Until this I had the utmost respect for teachers and supported them financially and emotionally whenever possible. No more. Thanks for nothing, private school teachers.

Thank YOU for nothing, a-hole parent. The feeling is mutual.

You missed the part where the parent supported you previously. Or you are just a selfish person.

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Anonymous wrote:Private school teachers are about to be out of a job when their private schools go out of business due to lack of enrollment after this utter catastrophe

To be clear - the catastrophe here is the pandemic. If schools go under, it is because of the pandemic - not because of teachers, administrators, or county leaders.

The catastrophe is the teachers putting their histrionics ahead of all else and abandoning their students while apparently still expecting to get paid. Until this I had the utmost respect for teachers and supported them financially and emotionally whenever possible. No more. Thanks for nothing, private school teachers.

Thank YOU for nothing, a-hole parent. The feeling is mutual.

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Anonymous wrote:life is sooooooooooo hard for you.

+1000 Don’t you think frontline healthcare workers might be a little scared too?

I know they are scared because three of the practices we use are still telemedicine only. It’s frustrating, but I respect that they decided to protect their staff and the family of the staff.

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Anonymous wrote:Private school teachers are about to be out of a job when their private schools go out of business due to lack of enrollment after this utter catastrophe

To be clear - the catastrophe here is the pandemic. If schools go under, it is because of the pandemic - not because of teachers, administrators, or county leaders.

The catastrophe is the teachers putting their histrionics ahead of all else and abandoning their students while apparently still expecting to get paid. Until this I had the utmost respect for teachers and supported them financially and emotionally whenever possible. No more. Thanks for nothing, private school teachers.

THIS.