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I Don’t Want to Go Back’: Many Teachers Are Fearful and Angry Over Pressure to Return
The New York Times ^ | July 11, 2020 | Dana Goldstein and Eliza Shapiro

Posted on 07/11/2020 5:43:03 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Many of the nation’s 3.5 million teachers found themselves feeling under siege this week as pressure from the White House, pediatricians and some parents to get back to physical classrooms intensified — even as the coronavirus rages across much of the country.

On Friday, the teachers’ union in Los Angeles, the nation’s second-largest district, demanded full-time remote learning when the academic year begins on Aug. 18, and called President Trump’s push to reopen schools part of a “dangerous, anti-science agenda that puts the lives of our members, our students and our families at risk.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: covid19; crybabies; education; reopen; teachers
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To: MinorityRepublican

I believe there’s a solution. The teachers working from home must submit weekly time stamped videos of all their work cuz no way do I believe they’re putting in their time.


61 posted on 07/11/2020 6:23:01 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Jrabbit

Oh, come on.
A check for nothing is what the unions want.

Yoir son sounds fine, but really, how much is such behavior typical?


62 posted on 07/11/2020 6:24:23 PM PDT by mrsmith (US Media: "Every cop is a criminal; ALL the sinners saints!")
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To: MinorityRepublican

Then plan on learning to code

If learning us virtual they don’t need teachers or buildings or pensions of unions


63 posted on 07/11/2020 6:25:00 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Gee that line wouldn’t cut it for me. No one asks if I’m afraid before I go to work


64 posted on 07/11/2020 6:26:24 PM PDT by Mom MD
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To: CatOwner

I said in April, just wait until August and September. Teachers fearful, parents fearful, and yes throw in some BLM and ‘Bonk Bonk’ by the kids like in a Star Trek episode. I have my doubts school can function at all.

In fact, can anything function if they start tracing any virus that gets on the loose???? The fear factor will be pushed to the limit all the time.


65 posted on 07/11/2020 6:28:42 PM PDT by taterjay
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To: butlerweave

Yep.


66 posted on 07/11/2020 6:34:58 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
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To: MinorityRepublican

THIS teacher is counting the days....


67 posted on 07/11/2020 6:36:37 PM PDT by Zirondelle76
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To: eyeamok

I heard that! We’re getting killed here.


68 posted on 07/11/2020 6:37:02 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Teaching jobs are highly coveted in most suburban areas. Districts will have no problem replacing malcontents.


69 posted on 07/11/2020 6:38:07 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: MinorityRepublican

Fine, don’t go back, your lazinesses. The younger teachers will be happy for an easy job with great hours and lots of vacations.


70 posted on 07/11/2020 6:38:57 PM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: Jrabbit

Tell your son to go back to school this fall, then. Quit bellyaching.


71 posted on 07/11/2020 6:41:18 PM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

They need to understand they will not be paid. Parents need to start lawsuits demanding they be given vouchers so they can send their kids to charter schools. Then the teachers won’t have to worry about going back, there will be nothing to go back to.


72 posted on 07/11/2020 6:42:02 PM PDT by McGavin999 (Not one politician or journalist has died of Covid)
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To: fso301

Waaaaaaaaaaaah! I am skeered of a bunch of little kids! /sarc


73 posted on 07/11/2020 6:42:24 PM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

So scum and vermin teachers, quit if you don’t like your jobs. You are lucky I am not POTUS...I would demand you return to work...if you don’t report for duty...your fired!!!

POTUS, Ronald Reagan.....fired all the union “air Traffic controllers” in 1980 and covered their jobs with management and military air traffic controllers!!!


74 posted on 07/11/2020 6:44:04 PM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: Zirondelle76
Amen. I can’t wait to get back in the classroom. So many “misconceptions” to clear up. So much true American history to be reinforced. And I’m an English teacher! I will definitely be introducing my Juniors and Seniors to Orwell’s 1984.
75 posted on 07/11/2020 6:46:33 PM PDT by MarDav
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To: MinorityRepublican

Great! See you later, you scumbag indoctrinating pieces of crap


76 posted on 07/11/2020 6:48:02 PM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Sure, no problem. If you do not return, you are fired, AKA Reagan Air Traffic Controllers. You are no longer needed.


77 posted on 07/11/2020 6:50:29 PM PDT by gathersnomoss (Just the facts, ma'am......)
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To: mrsmith

Unions are illegal in Texas


78 posted on 07/11/2020 6:51:10 PM PDT by Jrabbit
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To: yldstrk

He goes back on Aug.4


79 posted on 07/11/2020 6:52:14 PM PDT by Jrabbit
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To: gathersnomoss

Perfect time to have a retinue of conservative, pro-American, teachers ready to step into the breach. Time to take the education system back!


80 posted on 07/11/2020 6:53:23 PM PDT by MarDav
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