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Good post quadruple C.

You also said your school wasn’t closed.

Which makes you FOS.

As always.

Here here.

Having observed the current product of the modern education system over the last few months, I vote we leave the schools closed. For the children.

Agreed.

I did? Where?

25,000 cases of rona in Louisiana for persons 0-29 years of age. (of course this doesn't take into account the numbers that had it but were not tested).

14 deaths. (of course all from rona.....rolls eyes)

The numbers for the 0-18 age bracket, which is all schools, is 3 deaths.


So why not open up?


Clyde

They (public) are depending on the Parish. I’ve yet to hear of any private or parochial schools that aren’t opening.

Charter schools??? Haven’t heard anything about them.

That decision should be up to the school board as influenced by attending citizens. Teachers are employees, not CEO's

My son goes to private, but in orleans parish. Not sure how all of this is going to work.


On a side note, K-Paul's Resturant just announced they are closing for good. Go LaToya the Destroya.


Clyde

Hate to hear that about K-Paul’s. Drago’s is still rocking along with waiting lines most often at their Baton Rouge location.

LaToya is a sho nuff piece of work. Same as the Baton Rouge Mayor. Driving things into the ground.

Law suits. I believe this is the real underlying issue - scared of being sued.

Pffffftttt.

Good luck with that.

Seems inevitable across all types of educational institutions, public or public private.

Interesting to read what other folks think of teachers and what they do. I can only speak for the school my kids go to and a different school system in an adjoining state that my wife is a speech pathologist for. This is a conservative rural area. Most of the teachers are pretty representative of the community.

My wife worked from the time they stopped school until the end of the school year non-stop. Continual online meetings with kids over Zoom doing their speech therapy. Was a tough deal the first week setting up schedules and technology. There were some that didn't show for meetings but she was working continually. Many of the meetings were after hours as parents needed to be there to get the young kids set up. Billing, planning, reporting, were all the same. In the end school not meeting was A LOT more work for her....all it saved was a drive in and back and it cost a lot more time than that took each day to do everything else.

For my kids which range from grade school, to middle school, to high school in a local school (same school k through 12) they had weekly assignments posted that they were required to submit for each class. The assignments were "required" and were graded....but I can't say exactly how the grades were used. All of my kids said it wasn't as much as they would have done during school. Each of them had multiple online sessions each week that they attended. The online sessions weren't required since some students didn't have the technology they might need....rural area with a wide array of income levels. I can say teachers were posting work/lectures, grading work, and having online sessions. I know a lot of the teachers and all of them I know said they would have preferred being in school and that doing what they did took more time/effort than teaching in class. I know they were instructed that lack of work from students or poor scores after the last in-school day should NOT affect the kids grades.....so I can't say exactly how they used the grading other than for feedback to the kids.

I read a lot here about how sorry teachers and schools are. I know there a couple of teacher's that need to "hit the road" where my kids attend but those teachers stick out for a reason.....the majority are solid and work hard to educate kids. I guess I'm fortunate where I live. I KNOW the teachers here and my wife want to go back to school....if nothing else to make sure football season happens...grin.... There's legitimate concern about how things are going to be handled when they go back, most are concerned but most want to go back.

Pardon me for not reading the entire thread, and I'm not a teacher, but administration at my job doesn't ask any of the employees their opinion on day to day operations.

Union?

No sir.

Reason I asked is that the NEA swings a big stick,,,evidently.