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Teachers are not waiting. I know of several who retired mid-year. That NEVER used to happen. Covid didn't break their back--shitty parents did. Covid just r

• muaytimbo 4y ago
  Studies show that students didn't learn almost at all during covid (1). Understandable that remote learning likely isn't good in general and that teachers were not trained to teach in this setting but parents might have realized their children were not learning at all and fair or not placed this blame on the teachers. 1. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2022376118 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2022376118
  • zach_garwood 4y ago
    Parents always blame teachers when they should (almost) always blame administrators.
    • akimball 4y ago
      Parents who don't effect a good education for their children should first of all blame themselves, as it is a core part of their responsibility to their children and their community.
• samatman 4y ago
  > And, to put a cherry on top, practically all teachers now have multiple students who actually had a parent die. This can't possibly be the case. 67,366 adults between the ages of 18 and 49 have died (of COVID) in the US during the entire pandemic. There are 25 million children of primary school age in the US. Why explains this discrepancy? Social media. Every teacher has seen other teachers mourning the death of parents on social media, and that feels like something that actually happens to you. But no. It is absolutely not the case that practically all teachers have multiple students who lost parents to COVID. The math is completely off.
• prepend 4y ago
  > practically all teachers now have multiple students who actually had a parent die. This is extremely unlikely and if you know multiple teachers with this condition you just have really bad luck. Only about 60k COVID deaths are 30-49 [0] with another 200k for 50-64. This is about 25% of COVID deaths in the US. There’s 50M school kids between k-12 [1] so the odds of a kid having a parent who died is really low: 1:50M/60k2 for typical age range of school age kids or 1:50M/260k2 if you lump in the older age group, but I think that age group is less likely. So if you’re a teacher and teach 7 classes of 30 students your odds of having a single kid with a parent who died is 50% so certainly not “practically all teachers.” [0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-from-covid-by-age-us/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-... [1] https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=372#PK12-enrollment https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=372#PK12-enroll...
  • bsder 4y ago
    Okay, let's grab Texas: We'll roll with 20-59 which totals to: 20,765 confirmed deaths https://dshs.texas.gov/coronavirus/TexasCOVID19Demographics_Counts.xlsx https://dshs.texas.gov/coronavirus/TexasCOVID19Demographics_... Texas has 1,247 school districts: https://tea.texas.gov/texas-schools/general-information/overview-of-texas-schools https://tea.texas.gov/texas-schools/general-information/over... That's roughly 16 parent Covid fatalities per school. This, of course, ignores population clustering which is going to mean more deaths in larger school districts. And there's some fuzziness because not everybody in the demographic has children (although Texas is probably higher in that regard). Granted this probably overcounts a bit because 55-59 may not have children in school anymore. However, this also doesn't count people who survived but are in bad shape (who probably outnumber deaths by quite a bit) which may be worse from a student mental health point of view. I see no contradiction to what I have said and I stand by it.
    • prepend 4y ago
      A school district has multiple schools. So while there’s 1247 districts, there’s 20,000 schools do your math is very off. Your statement about most teachers is blatantly wrong. There are more survivors, but still not the vast majority of teachers. [0] https://www.greatschools.org/texas/ https://www.greatschools.org/texas/