This is one of those "I have to say something" posts, sorry. Just listen to this perspective. Agree/disagree and move on.
The; "F*** school teacher's, get back to work assholes" & "Grocery store employees have been working this whole time!"
Consider the possibility the Wuhan Virus is real, and it's contagious. And consider the possiblity it kill ~0.05% of infected adults.
Now please understand this as a fact; High Schools are germ sharing, cold/flu infested environments. At any given point in January, about 25% of my students were sick. The whole damn school got sick in about a 4-6 week period. Including myself. I had the most ass kicking cold ive ever experienced. I had to go home one day during work because i was so whipped out. (I'm not rambo, but i've never skipped work over a cold) [Wuhan Virus, perhaps?]
With that said;
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(just consider the possibility of 0.05% mortality, I KNOW THIS STAT IS VERY POSSIBLY WRONG) For every 200 teachers infected, 1 would die.
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I have a Master's degree (196 total college credit hours). Some of the best classes I took in college were online. I am confident, online classes are an awesome pathways to education.
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one of our educators died this summer from Covid.
So, Why is it worth risking the lives of students and teachers? What's wrong with teaching online until we have a vaccine?
P.S. I am a conservative high school government teacher. Politically, I am behind enemy lines daily. Our English department spews liberal thought process all day every day. My Government lead and "assigned mentor" is hard left. She considers CNN an unbiased news source. The list of liberal indoc in my school goes deep. (and I teach in an affluent community)
I do my best to be an un-biased Government teacher. I give my kids as much information and perspective of both sides as possible. And I encourage them to think for themselves and make their own decisions.
I would be ok with online classes. Where the students tune into the meeting and watch the teachers teach on a set schedule. Like a virtual classroom. However, my children's school puts up a video or a link to a 3rd party video. There is no classroom discussion. Any questions take a day to get answered. There is a way to do this better and no one seems to care to find a better solution. Our school just announced today that it will be 100% remote for the first 9 weeks. No. It will be the entire year without a doubt. The ONLY upside to this is that I don't have to worry about some liberal snowflake brainwashing my children.
Teachers are shockingly lazy and stuck in their ways.
In quarter 4 this year, Our online class structure and curriculum was mandated and it was a joke. I could have converted my class online in a week and it would of been highly engaging. Instead, we chose to give a maximum of One 15 minute assignment per week. It was a JOKE.