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The teachers don't expect the same, because they are still getting paid.

I'm not saying they don't have legitimate questions about how schools will reopen safely, but to be frank, it's really easy to argue that it's "just not safe enough", when you're still pulling a paycheck sitting at home and the closing of schools is felt by working parents who are SOL -- not by yourself.

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Most teachers would rather be in the classroom than do online learning. They'd also like people to be safe.

The issue comes with trying to force kids to wear masks when so many parents are against them in many places, maintain social distancing, and keeping things clean and sanitized.

Keeping kids focused and learning has become difficult enough, but add on all those measures plus the possibility of contracting covid, just means you will lose a lot of experienced teaching staff.

"Most" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence. And lets also be real, there is a self-reporting bias there, where I doubt very many people (myself included) would admit to _wanting_ to not work and still get paid, even if that is the motivation.

Most teachers are still working doing online learning though, which why I stated they'd prefer to be in the classroom. Online learning is all the worst parts of teaching with very little of the joy.

Sure, if someone wanted to pay me to do whatever I wanted I'd take it no qualms whatsoever. But yes, I may not admit to it.

I think that like most things in the states, this is super dependent on where you are. I know in my area, teachers were _not_ working every day, despite still doing online learning. They were supposed to check in with the kids every few days. In fact, most went on unemployment (at the request of the district) to be able to make the lower work scheme work without impacting district budgets.

Are you kidding? Every teacher I know has had to radically reinvent their classrooms for fully remote learning on the fly with minimal support and are working around the clock to do so.

Ding ding ding.

I heard of teachers outright disappearing, claiming "technical issues" during this time.

Of course there will be people like this. Do you think they are anywhere close to the majority?

No but it's unacceptable.

In my city all sports teachers were suddenly ill for several weeks. they had the lowest risk, but apparently also the smallest brains.

Lol. Nice work if you can get it

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