I want us back. It seems to be a big fear porn circle jerk about who cares about the children more. As a boots on the ground teacher, what pisses me off the most is the superintendent getting four times my pay is too much of a coward to declare we’re open.
Everyone looks at teachers as the point of failure, but it's almost always administration and their policies that drive this foolishness.
In our case teachers must have parallel curriculum to run a 100% virtual section and two sets of two hybrid sections on opposite days. This is with little to no scheduled planning, an online platform that hasn't been opened to us (usually most of us would work over the summer to upload content, polish up course modules, learn new software), and a School Board that keeps moving the in person start date later and later. It's like everyone in management never taught successfully in the classroom...
The most aggravating part, though, is that no parents gave public comment in favor of opening in person at the last school board planning meeting. They can all talk fecal matter on Facebook, but refuse to show up when it matters.
In my state, they done fucked themselves. To the point where I almost feel bad for teachers, which I'm generally not inclined to do. They're actually being blamed here for a lot of the problems we face.
Like the whole "save the teachers" thing was the major line for the current Governor's campaign, even pulling such stupid crap as making a former teacher his running mate. They pushed this haaaard. And that's, straight up, how they won: for the teachers!...
Well, then the Governor shut everything down, closed the churches, and our state is going to go bankrupt. We're a red state, and the guy barely won: everyone is pissed. Which might have been just pushed off on the Democrats in general...
Until the schools shut down. Now, all the parents have actually seen what is being taught in a given day. Worse: because it's no longer the pre-DoE days, the parents knew this already, deep down, as they experienced it themselves. To say the parents around me are generally unimpressed with teaching right now is the biggest understatement I can imagine.
Once you put it all together... Boy, I really don't envy their position here politically over the next few years.
I want us back. It seems to be a big fear porn circle jerk about who cares about the children more. As a boots on the ground teacher, what pisses me off the most is the superintendent getting four times my pay is too much of a coward to declare we’re open.
This.
Everyone looks at teachers as the point of failure, but it's almost always administration and their policies that drive this foolishness.
In our case teachers must have parallel curriculum to run a 100% virtual section and two sets of two hybrid sections on opposite days. This is with little to no scheduled planning, an online platform that hasn't been opened to us (usually most of us would work over the summer to upload content, polish up course modules, learn new software), and a School Board that keeps moving the in person start date later and later. It's like everyone in management never taught successfully in the classroom...
The most aggravating part, though, is that no parents gave public comment in favor of opening in person at the last school board planning meeting. They can all talk fecal matter on Facebook, but refuse to show up when it matters.
In my state, they done fucked themselves. To the point where I almost feel bad for teachers, which I'm generally not inclined to do. They're actually being blamed here for a lot of the problems we face.
Like the whole "save the teachers" thing was the major line for the current Governor's campaign, even pulling such stupid crap as making a former teacher his running mate. They pushed this haaaard. And that's, straight up, how they won: for the teachers!...
Well, then the Governor shut everything down, closed the churches, and our state is going to go bankrupt. We're a red state, and the guy barely won: everyone is pissed. Which might have been just pushed off on the Democrats in general...
Until the schools shut down. Now, all the parents have actually seen what is being taught in a given day. Worse: because it's no longer the pre-DoE days, the parents knew this already, deep down, as they experienced it themselves. To say the parents around me are generally unimpressed with teaching right now is the biggest understatement I can imagine.
Once you put it all together... Boy, I really don't envy their position here politically over the next few years.