Agreed.
I worked in my building all during our only remote school year. I liked working in the building rather than home. But, once the kids were back and the mask and shield requirement was enforced, I’m dying! I hate it.I rebelled one day and was sent home, lol.
One of my daughter’s is a nurse at Penn and even they don’t have to wear the shield on the top of the mask all day/12 hour shift. I have to wear the mask and shield on top of it all damn day and teach/speak with it. And the kids have to wear the mask all damn day. It’s ridiculous. Useless. Yet, required.
I hated teaching from home since March 2020 because so much is lost for the students,but hate teaching with the mask and shield in school, now. It’s awful.On top of that, the kids can’t socialize, can’t take off their masks, etc. It’s surreal we are allowing this to happen. These kids are going to be so much more fucked up than usual.
That’s how they wanted us to teach.
Be in the classroom with a mask, face shield and gloves and teach the class both online with zoom/discord and the LMS and to students coming to the actual building.
No microphones in the classrooms (helps a little with the face mask. Can’t enunciate and make your voice carry with a mask on). I normally have a booming voice that’s heard outside the classroom easily.
Classroom sizes limited to 5 students and a teacher. Everyone else learn from home.
(Students would still have follow the lesson on discord even while sitting in the classroom on their personal laptops)
Our classes are intense as it is: 8 hours per week per class over a 2 month period- reminded me of the old twice a week adult learning classes/ university class schedule that I used to teach at UMUC at Army Education Centers back in the 90’s and 00’s. And we normally are teaching a morning and afternoon class (6 hours a day).
A mask was bad enough, but a face shields and gloves and double teaching (we were to come in for accreditation/ appearances only)