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Unless teachers are somehow very different than the rest of us, regardless of the pandemic, a significant percentage have discovered they prefer to work from ho

by dahdum 5y ago

Unless teachers are somehow very different than the rest of us, regardless of the pandemic, a significant percentage have discovered they prefer to work from home. Those with powerful unions can drag the process of returning far longer than those without.

chii 5y ago
> they prefer to work from home. that's probably true, but what about the students? The learning outcomes of a lesson over zoom seems to be not so good imho. The kids missing social aspects of school can't be good for them either. Their interests needs to be represented here, and seems like it's not.
- ryandrake 5y ago
  Anecdote, sample size = 1, but my third grader constantly complains about return to physical school, now that she got a taste of School From Home. Everything she loves is online now, her friends, Roblox, Minecraft, and so on, so she just thinks it's pointless and unfair to have to sit in a classroom. "It's not fair that dad gets to work from home and I have to go to in person school!" I can't argue because her school performance and grades improved remarkably during the pandemic.
throwoutway 5y ago
So are schools primarily an employment vehicle for teachers? I thought they should care about student outcomes more
jfengel 5y ago
Most teachers don't seem to particularly like working from home. They became teachers because they like working with children. They can't do that as effectively at the other end of a screen. Most teachers I know want to get back to the classroom. They just don't want to risk their lives for it. They are often older and often have co-morbidities that put them at serious risk from COVID. So they're not dragging it out to escape work. Unlike "the rest of us", working from home isn't an opportunity to slack off without the boss watching. They often work even harder. They being cautious because they don't want to die.

by dahdum 5y ago

chii 5y ago

> they prefer to work from home. that's probably true, but what about the students? The learning outcomes of a lesson over zoom seems to be not so good imho. The kids missing social aspects of school can't be good for them either. Their interests needs to be represented here, and seems like it's not.

ryandrake 5y ago
Anecdote, sample size = 1, but my third grader constantly complains about return to physical school, now that she got a taste of School From Home. Everything she loves is online now, her friends, Roblox, Minecraft, and so on, so she just thinks it's pointless and unfair to have to sit in a classroom. "It's not fair that dad gets to work from home and I have to go to in person school!" I can't argue because her school performance and grades improved remarkably during the pandemic.

throwoutway 5y ago

So are schools primarily an employment vehicle for teachers? I thought they should care about student outcomes more

jfengel 5y ago

Most teachers don't seem to particularly like working from home. They became teachers because they like working with children. They can't do that as effectively at the other end of a screen. Most teachers I know want to get back to the classroom. They just don't want to risk their lives for it. They are often older and often have co-morbidities that put them at serious risk from COVID. So they're not dragging it out to escape work. Unlike "the rest of us", working from home isn't an opportunity to slack off without the boss watching. They often work even harder. They being cautious because they don't want to die.