The teachers love it. They won’t have to go back to work until late August. Basically this year between the stay home ordered, summer and holiday breaks, teachers will get paid full salary for about six months real work.
No wonder they are pumping “We’re all in this Together!” and acting like this is perfectly terrific. Here in MN, instead of arriving to work at 7 and leaving at 3 and interacting with students, they are “teaching’ online about an hour a day (if that) and then walking around the lakes, gardening, etc,
Yet the people that want to go back to work to earn a living are the ones called selfish. How dare they want to support their own family!!! And the people screeching about staying home are supposedly not selfish? What a clown world.
Im willing to bet that schools are going to consolidate classes and some teachers will lose their job due to tax revenue being fucked. Surely budgets will be smaller next year..?
I know our local district was already making cuts...doing away with world languages in middle school, removing certain other classes, that sort of thing. Much of our school budget (aside from salaries) seems to be for things I personally think could be cut like free breakfasts and lunches which has grown ridiculously. It used to be free/reduced lunch only. Then they expanded to breakfast. It used to be a very small number of students on it, now it has expanded to include a vast majority of a district, which is just insane. Then it expanded to summer...now some districts through this crisis are doing it on weekends and have added dinner. I mean, come on. At what point are families supposed to priorities spending money on their needs, not simply their wants. How much does it cost for me to give my own child a banana and a piece of toast for breakfast v the school having to pay someone a salary and benefits to feed my child? If a family needs food assistance, we have SNAP benefits. So what are they doing with SNAP if the children are getting breakfast and lunch at the school? We also have tons of food shelves and charity. So I see how school budgets have become so bloated over the years. We've also had an influx of non-english speaking students which costs additional money in staffing/para support.
Schools are going to have to make some tough decisions, as tax payers will want to keep more of their hard earned money, not be burdened with higher property taxes to support someone else's family.
More like people who are staying home and still getting paid.
The teachers love it. They won’t have to go back to work until late August. Basically this year between the stay home ordered, summer and holiday breaks, teachers will get paid full salary for about six months real work.
No wonder they are pumping “We’re all in this Together!” and acting like this is perfectly terrific. Here in MN, instead of arriving to work at 7 and leaving at 3 and interacting with students, they are “teaching’ online about an hour a day (if that) and then walking around the lakes, gardening, etc,
Yet the people that want to go back to work to earn a living are the ones called selfish. How dare they want to support their own family!!! And the people screeching about staying home are supposedly not selfish? What a clown world.
You'd be surprised my Engineering professor (I'm graduated) posted on Facebook that she misses her job and hates teaching from home.
Fortunately, there are a few teachers/professors like that, but these days I find them the exception, not the rule.
Im willing to bet that schools are going to consolidate classes and some teachers will lose their job due to tax revenue being fucked. Surely budgets will be smaller next year..?
I know our local district was already making cuts...doing away with world languages in middle school, removing certain other classes, that sort of thing. Much of our school budget (aside from salaries) seems to be for things I personally think could be cut like free breakfasts and lunches which has grown ridiculously. It used to be free/reduced lunch only. Then they expanded to breakfast. It used to be a very small number of students on it, now it has expanded to include a vast majority of a district, which is just insane. Then it expanded to summer...now some districts through this crisis are doing it on weekends and have added dinner. I mean, come on. At what point are families supposed to priorities spending money on their needs, not simply their wants. How much does it cost for me to give my own child a banana and a piece of toast for breakfast v the school having to pay someone a salary and benefits to feed my child? If a family needs food assistance, we have SNAP benefits. So what are they doing with SNAP if the children are getting breakfast and lunch at the school? We also have tons of food shelves and charity. So I see how school budgets have become so bloated over the years. We've also had an influx of non-english speaking students which costs additional money in staffing/para support.
Schools are going to have to make some tough decisions, as tax payers will want to keep more of their hard earned money, not be burdened with higher property taxes to support someone else's family.
This is the real reason behind this abhorrent display of false humanism.