It's too late to put the genie back in the bottle. Whether we like it or not we're going with the Sweden Model. I've got school age kids myself, and I understand the risk. This is going to be a situation that could become hard to manage but our society's economy is constructed in such a way that relies on daytime programming for children and teens outside of their home. The teachers are going to have to help bear the load, just as we all are.
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
#12Maybe all nurses should quit, too.
If they don't receive proper PPE, which they've been quoted that they still aren't, how could you blame them?
Re: Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at risk
#13My mother is an elementary school teacher, and I don't want her to go back to school this year. The federal government is worse than useless, and the state government is feckless and unwilling to make the tough calls to protect people's lives.
She's been a teacher for ~15 years and still makes less than $30k a year teaching. She loves helping the kids, but her life isn't worth it.
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#14I 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.
I would prefer every student to be held back 1 semester from graduating high school than 1 more dead (if that were a possibility, but you get the point).
I don't even understand how its possible to prefer sending kids back over one semester. Of course I think the bigger issue is its just parents that want kids out of the house for a multitude of reasons including getting back to their own work.
Re: Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at risk
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
They're literally not being given the supplies to do their job. That kind of negates presumed responsibility.
Re: Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at risk
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
No. The danger is not overblown.
New teachers just don’t appear out of the woodworks, it takes time to be trained. Plus, since in the US it’s such a poorly paid and poorly respected profession (at least not respected by society; Id imagine parents appreciate teachers), where will these new teachers come from?
Re: Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at risk
#17Maybe 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.
No, I think everyone should overreact and quit their jobs because covid-19 killed around 150,000 Americans in a country of 300,000,000 people. (Except I would actually totally understand nurses quitting.)
Re: Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at risk
#18I 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.
Strong statement: dumb kids are better than dead kids.
Re: Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at risk
#19Maybe 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
Did you intend to compare starting salary to average salary?
Re: Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at risk
#20Maybe all nurses should quit, too.
Nurses get about double the salary and literally signed up for this type of work. School teachers often buy their own supplies and aren't remotely prepared for this.