Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It’s just a matter of getting used to it. Medical personnel do it all the time. My family has been working on wearing them more for when the kids go to school and we have all built up to a few hours comfortably in one week’s time.
I don’t understand the constant comparison to medical professionals. Pretty sure doctors and nurses aren’t walking around delivering lectures, projecting their voices to classrooms, reading aloud, teaching young children phonics, etc while wearing masks.![]()
Anonymous wrote:
I am also not buying a microphone and speaker for my class and figuring out how to rig that up with a mask on-just stop. I'm done with the expectation that teachers sacrifice money, time, their health, basic necessities like bathroom breaks-it's enough already. We need to stop coming to the rescue and let people see what their taxes actually fund. Period.
I can understand your frustration, but you know very well that it will be on you if the students can't hear you and thus fail to understand the lesson. Get a pop-star style mic that clips on your head, or the earbuds that have a mic in the cord.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:SOmeone posted a link to the humanity shield. It’s expensive but I’ll try that if my district says it’s okay. I’ll deduct it from my taxes.
That’s not how taxes actually work. You get a $250 teacher credit max for classroom supplies.
And it will be a classroom supply this year.
I always spend at least $250 on school supplies for a school year... so this would be too expensive out of my own pocket.
Anonymous wrote:I went to hand out diplomas and yearbooks today. Talking to the other teachers, especially with the AC going, was difficult to understand each other. It got me thinking how speech therapy sessions would work too- seeing one's mouth move is a big part of that. We also have dual language which I can see also being extremely challenging.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
I am also not buying a microphone and speaker for my class and figuring out how to rig that up with a mask on-just stop. I'm done with the expectation that teachers sacrifice money, time, their health, basic necessities like bathroom breaks-it's enough already. We need to stop coming to the rescue and let people see what their taxes actually fund. Period.
I can understand your frustration, but you know very well that it will be on you if the students can't hear you and thus fail to understand the lesson. Get a pop-star style mic that clips on your head, or the earbuds that have a mic in the cord.
The solution isn't going to be me making more purchases. The buck stops here. Teachers need to take stand-the government needs to fund education. Not teachers.
Anonymous wrote:The same way medical professionals and all other essential personnel have managed for months.
I truly don’t understand the commitment of some teachers to the idea that they are less capable than everyone else. It doesn’t instill confidence in their judgment as professionals.
Anonymous wrote:
I am also not buying a microphone and speaker for my class and figuring out how to rig that up with a mask on-just stop. I'm done with the expectation that teachers sacrifice money, time, their health, basic necessities like bathroom breaks-it's enough already. We need to stop coming to the rescue and let people see what their taxes actually fund. Period.
I can understand your frustration, but you know very well that it will be on you if the students can't hear you and thus fail to understand the lesson. Get a pop-star style mic that clips on your head, or the earbuds that have a mic in the cord.
Anonymous wrote:
This is a perfect example of why the quality of schools has plummeted. Teachers just follow orders. But they also are clueless, and don’t understand why parents are so unhappy with their child’s education.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:SOmeone posted a link to the humanity shield. It’s expensive but I’ll try that if my district says it’s okay. I’ll deduct it from my taxes.
That’s not how taxes actually work. You get a $250 teacher credit max for classroom supplies.
And it will be a classroom supply this year.
I am also not buying a microphone and speaker for my class and figuring out how to rig that up with a mask on-just stop. I'm done with the expectation that teachers sacrifice money, time, their health, basic necessities like bathroom breaks-it's enough already. We need to stop coming to the rescue and let people see what their taxes actually fund. Period.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:SOmeone posted a link to the humanity shield. It’s expensive but I’ll try that if my district says it’s okay. I’ll deduct it from my taxes.
That’s not how taxes actually work. You get a $250 teacher credit max for classroom supplies.