Posted on 06/21/2021 3:46:01 AM PDT by Libloather
Veteran school teacher Stephanie Woolley-Larrera has gained years of experience since her inaugural year at the front of a classroom 26 years ago, yet the past school year marked many firsts for her.
For one, Woolley-Larrera, who teaches at Coral Reef Senior High School in Miami, had never taught from a stationary position in the corner of her classroom, where she was tethered to her computer in order to address students seated both in front of her and tuned into class remotely.
"I learned more this year since I have since my first year teaching. It was transformative," she said of teaching high school during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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In January 2021, 78% of teachers said they experienced frequent job-related stress, compared to 40% of employed adults, according to a survey of public school teachers from the Rand Corp. funded by the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers
The pressures of teaching during the pandemic weighed so heavily on educators that one in four teachers said they were likely to leave their jobs by the end of the 2020-21 school year, according to the same study.
Hybrid teaching challenges - including balancing remote instruction with in-person learning - led to the most stress among teachers.
"The kids that did not want to participate - I couldn't do anything about that," said Woolley-Larrera.
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Teaching?! My a$$! The only profession less trustworthy than DC politics is teaching.
Buahahahahahahaha!
This must be sponsored by the Teacher’s Unions.
Justifying their BIG Covid-19 pay raisies.
Pretty stressful. Nothing compared to a Pipeline worker on a schedule........Oh, I forgit, they wre cancelled.....right ......the job of being an ex-pipeline worker is FAR MORE STRESSFULL, you leftist biatches!
No one panicked more about the virus than the teachers. Made no sense. Their stress is self-induced.
I watched as the people working in supermarkets kept working all the way through the “pandemic” while the teachers hid under their beds, whining that it was too dangerous to teach the age bracket that wasn’t getting sick at all.
(Still looking for the mass graves of the cashiers and baggers who exposed themselves to hundreds of people a day so we could all keep eating.)
I hope that one good that comes from this scamdemic is that it exposed the teachers unions once and for all for what they are, lying grifters. (”It aint about the children it’s all about me!”)
Teacher’s are overwhelmingly liberal, therefore overwhelmingly they have a mental disorder. Do the math.
ER doctors and nurses...
ER doctors and nurses...
I could never understand how some pimply faced supermarket bagger was essential but my doctor and dentist weren’t. The world hasn’t been played like this since a third of it jumped on the Allah bandwagon.
Those who can do, become doers.
Those who can’t do, become teachers.
Those who can’t teach, become administrators.
Those who can’t administrate, become union rep’s.
Crappola.
No, their stress was not self-induced. Teachers I know were being held accountable for their students not logging in from home, not completing assignments, etc. In my area, less than %20 of the total student population participated in online classes. When the district went back to 5 day Face to Face it stayed the same.
Teachers were being pressured to pass them anyway because “if we retain everyone who hasn’t done the work then we will need to build more classrooms to accommodate everyone repeating”. A friend of mine pointed out this August they are going to have a class of 2nd graders who do not know how to behave in a classroom/structured setting. Many if not most will not have the basic foundations of reading or math so 2nd grade teachers will now be tasked with teaching kindergarten skills on top of wheat they are required to cover for 2nd grade. I predict an explosion of referrals to Special Education because the kids will be behavior problems in the classroom and they will be so far behind academically they will not be able to do the classwork.
Another nugget most people don’t realize is school districts were not dropping students who missed enough days to be dropped from the roster previously (in the district I live in if a student misses 10 unexcused days they are automatically dropped), The reason the schools aren’t dropping them- as long as the students are on the roster they get federal and state funds.
Yes I guess the stress of having the actual customers (parents) of their work being able to see what they are paying for must have been tough to bear.
Totally agree nurses and doctors. I know because my wife and son both nurses. Our son works in ICU (which was their ‘COVID’ unit) and was ready to quit afterwards.
“ Teaching?! My a$$! The only profession less trustworthy than DC politics is teaching.”
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Amen brother. The only way to bust this cabal up is for the Great Unwashed to “finally” rise up against it and vote in a voucher system so parents will have the ability and means to send their kids to the schools of their choice. Competition is the antiseptic to kill this cesspool of filth.
We all had pretty heavy hearts for the Nurses and Dr’s. We weren’t hit here as cities were so they volunterred to go into the hot-zones to assist. Amazing courage...every day!
They should have contacted every Charter School and Home schooled teachers to see how they handled this. I had three granddaughters tahen out of public schools and taught over the computer. They excelled!
“ No one panicked more about the virus than the teachers. Made no sense. Their stress is self-induced.”
Not where I live. Maybe in the union states, but Texas teachers don’t have unions like the other states. They just kept doing their jobs. Only difference was having to teach over Zoom calls instead of in the classroom.
During the shutdowns, the teachers were praised for their efforts to keep the learning going. Then after everything started opening back up, parents threw the teachers under the bus saying that they weren’t doing enough to teach and protect their precious little spoiled brats.
As a landlord, I enjoyed having people going nuts in my building …while not getting paid for it. Quite a treat.
Urban teacher here. From March of 2020 to October of 2020 I did absolutely nothing. Zoom class with about 5 of 30 in attendance. Most days I couldn’t believe I was being paid for what I was doing. When we finally did go full classrooms only 30% attended, and most of those slept the entire time. Best year of my life as a teacher. All because of hysterics.
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