Posted on 07/19/2020 12:01:02 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot
SEDRO-WOOLLEY, Wash. — Every day when I walk into work as a public-school teacher, I am prepared to take a bullet to save a child. In the age of school shootings, that’s what the job requires. But asking me to return to the classroom amid a pandemic and expose myself and my family to Covid-19 is like asking me to take that bullet home to my own family.
I won’t do it, and you shouldn’t want me to.
(Read it all if you can stomach it)
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
I think I see what you did there.................
We won’t count you among the brave that have labored under the threat of a global pandemic.
Walmart workers.
First responders.
Medical Workers.
Farmers.
Truckers.
Cower and hide in the false belief that this will pass you by.
If she is not comfortable, she should not return to teaching. She should resign and her paycheck should end immediately. When the pandemic is declared over, when the flu season has passed, all potential mass shooters have been apprehended, someone certifies that no earthquakes will occur, and the threats from tornados and hurricanes are all resolved, she can come back to her job and continue to teach peace, love, and the need to address climate change.
Let all of the cities compete for the honor of erecting her statue, but those with empty pedestals will have preference.
It is in everyone’s interest to see remote teaching succeed.
Nothing will kill the Public Education monster faster or more effectively.
No. much worse. The school asks sick people to stay home. We are taking care of sick people.
Let me know if you haven’t noticed the many FReepers that share Rebecca’s point of view.
If you think you will be at risk ...don’t show up. What a selfish person you are!!!!
We would be better off if they were replaced with people who actually teach, even if they are not “education professionals”
The way that I’ve seen remote learning implemented, there is little to no live student/teacher interaction. Which means that classroom size is no longer very relevant, and they could do just as well with 1/10 or even 1/100 the number of teachers. School administrators would become even more redundant. Imagine the savings that will accrue when they can get rid of all those salaries and pensions as well as the buildings. Computers for each pupil, and software piped out from Central Planning are all that is needed.
Or perhaps there is something vital that is lost when you abandon in-person learning? I’ll leave it to the teachers unions to explain what that is.
Every year she could catch the deadly flu and never throws a hissy fit.
You don’t get to have your cake and eat it too. You need not come back to school to teach just as the school district has the right not to give you a pay check for not showing up. Show up for work and you get a pay check. Don’t show, no pay check. That’s the way it works in the private sector.
Did Rebecca Martinson go marching and protesting in May and June this year?
A substitute teacher might be a better option.
I retired from teaching 8 years ago. I’ve subbed at the school I retired from since. Because my age puts me at risk of dying from the Wuhan virus, I am having to think about whether or not I want to sub this year. Happily, the number of deaths in my county is something like 1, so my odds are kind of good. I do not, however, expect to get paid if I don’t come in and sub.
When the first wave of lockdowns/shutdowns happened, certain places like gas stations and grocery stores were exempted. It wasn’t because those were magical places where COVID-19 couldn’t spread. It was because people looked at the risk vs reward and said that the risk of shutting those places down (no gas and no food for everyone) wasn’t worth the reward (some amount of reduced spread).
Schools should easily fall in the same category. This distance learning nonsense doesn’t work based on everything I’ve seen and heard from everyone involved on both sides of it (teachers, parents, and kids). We cannot have every school-age child falling a year or more behind the rest of the world over this. Yes, some additional spread will happen. But damnit, it’s worth it.
Please Don’t Make Me Risk Getting Covid-19 to Teach Your Child
Wouldn’t think of it!
Now...Don’t expect ME to pay YOU for NOT teaching my child. Deal? You don’t teach. I don’t pay you to do nothing. We should both end up happy.
Some are heroes, some are zeroes.
Every Rat wants the schools closed until after election day.
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