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Are you a teacher?

• s1artibartfast 6y ago
  I have heard every teach I know say much worse. They know one of their primary functions is babysitting.
  • Simulacra 6y ago
    If we require children to be in school, that's essentially what they are doing is babysitting, but hopefully teaching. I think teachers like working from home and they don't want to go back to the classroom, it's that simple. The only people I hear complaining about returning to the classroom are, well, teachers. At some point they have to go back, whether they like it or not.
    • t-writescode 6y ago
      Do _you_ know any teachers? I've certainly not been hearing about how much they love working from home with the exception of one. The rest find it more difficult to teach, especially with complicated technology and decade old laptops.
      • s1artibartfast 6y ago
        Most that I know don't like working from home, but still would quit before going back without a vaccine.
        • t-writescode 6y ago
          In fact, we were basically cheering them last year for doing the very same when they were being forced to work. We cheered and demanded the closing of schools when kids were taking videos of the unmasked masses walking the halls. Huge percentages of teachers _have_ quit for that very reason.
          • s1artibartfast 6y ago
            Some were cheering but I wasn't. I like to think I see both sides to it. On one hand, there are some teachers that are high risk and should not have to go back. On the other hand, some students have been severely underserved. For example on of my teach friends has 5 homeless students that have essentially no school, and others in abusive homes. The practical solution in my opinion was to make low risk teachers conduct in person education for young and vulnerable students for whom at home education will not work, and do so with added precautions. This is what much of the rest of the world has done. At this point, I think it is largely irrelevant, assuming that teachers will have vaccines in the next month or two and be will actually go back once they receive them.
        • Dylan16807 6y ago
          I'm not sure what that proves? I wouldn't do any job that puts me near more than a handful of people without a vaccine.
          • s1artibartfast 6y ago
            I must have misread that as saying that most teachers DO like working from home.
    • s1artibartfast 6y ago
      I know a lot of teachers and they don't want to go back for fear of their personal safety. They understand that parents want babysitting, and they don't want to endanger themselves to give it to them. Kids aren't are pretty low risk from covid, but teachers are older and have higher risk. Some are elderly, some are pregnant, and some have medical conditions. Many that I know would quit before going back without a vaccine. That said, return to classrooms has worked well in just about every other country, even during their lockdowns.
      • jedberg 6y ago
        > That said, return to classrooms has worked well in just about every other country, even during their lockdowns. Those other countries have much lower community spread, public health care, and mask mandates that are actually enforceable. It's not a comparable situation.
        • s1artibartfast 6y ago
          With respect to community spread, the US isn’t that far from the EU. Many actually have higher rates than US states which are not teaching in classroms https://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=countries-normalized&highlight=United%20States&show=25-lg&y=both&scale=linear&data=cases-daily-7&data-source=jhu&xaxis=right&extra=European%20Union%2CSpain#countries-normalized https://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=countr...
          • jedberg 6y ago
            Now yes, but when the collected all that data the community spread in those countries was much lower.