Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at risk
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Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at risk
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Re: Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at risk
#2Maybe all nurses should quit, too.
Re: Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at risk
#3This is exactly why all the people that said "choosing to protect life is also choosing to protect the economy" were right. It sucks, but people with savings can choose to quit over having to risk their lives. So if there is an appreciable risk (and associated hazard, which, for many of our older educators there is) then that is what is going to happen and you still get the disruptions to the economy.
Re: Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at risk
#4Maybe all nurses should quit, too.
idk if it's a tongue in cheek comment or what but when you sign up to work in the medical system it's kind of implied (and probably explicitly written in your work contract) that you'll encounter dangerous and unpleasant situations, much less for teachers, especially when the whole thing is unnecessary and preventable in the first place.
Re: Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at risk
#5Maybe all nurses should quit, too.
Maybe we should take better measures to protect both incredibly valuable professions instead of making snarky comments that imply they should just go get sick and die because someone else decided making bad calls is good.
Re: Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at risk
#6I feel like there is too much emphasis on these and not enough on the ones that earnestly want to go back to work. There should be a balance here, as we really do need a lot of students to have access to schools in the fall.
Remote learning doesn't work for everyone and leaves a lot of people behind. The overall consequences of another lost semester may be far worse than the consequences of reopening.
Re: Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at risk
#7How many? 2? 200? 20%? 90%? Without an answer to this question this doesn't seem a productive discussion.
Re: Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at risk
#8Maybe all nurses should quit, too.
idk if it's a tongue in cheek comment or what but when you sign up to work in the medical system it's kind of implied (and probably explicitly written in your work contract) that you'll encounter dangerous and unpleasant situations, much less for teachers, especially when the whole thing is unnecessary and preventable in the first place.
Except the danger is overblown, there is risk ? yes of course, like everything else in life there is risk. Thats being said If they feel uncomfortable to work then they should quit, give opportunity for other teacher to take their job.
Re: Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at risk
#9Maybe all nurses should quit, too.
idk if it's a tongue in cheek comment or what but when you sign up to work in the medical system it's kind of implied (and probably explicitly written in your work contract) that you'll encounter dangerous and unpleasant situations, much less for teachers, especially when the whole thing is unnecessary and preventable in the first place.
This is 100% false, nurses and doctors did not opt-in for working under pandemic like conditions. Also they never agreed to do so while understaffed or without appropriate levels of PPE
Re: Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at risk
#10Maybe all nurses should quit, too.
Nurses also make significantly more than teachers do, as well.
North Carolina where my wife is a teacher:
Registered Nurse RN Salary $62,560
North Carolina Avg Teacher $37,631
And some other numbers:
2017-18 National Average Starting Teacher Salary: $39,249
U.S. Registered Nurse RN Salary $73,550
U.S. National Average Salary $50,620