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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.

More bullschit.

You’re emotionally invested in one so you’re prone to defend them.

I’ve dealt with with three different school districts in three different states for three different kids over the past 13 years.

Teachers and school staff are by and large some of the most worthless, idiotic, emotionally driven dumb fugks this country has to offer.

Obviously this is a generality and not applicable to each individual in the profession.

True, I know a lot of them so I'm invested. I see several that are idiots....but when I look around at society in general I'm very happy with the teachers in our local school....nah, thinking about it in that sense, I'm overjoyed with them.

How so? What would prevent people from suing?

Birdfugker,

You gonna acknowledge how fugking stupid you are?

Put your thinking cap on and figure it out, dumb schit.

Hmm... so me saying that closing the school for this upcoming school year hasn't been discussed is the same as me claiming that my school weren't closed after Spring Break of this year, which I plainly stated on this site any number of times?

I have learned this means you don't have an answer.

I’ve dealt with with three different school districts in three different states for three different kids over the past 13 years.

Teachers and school staff are by and large some of the most worthless, idiotic, emotionally driven dumb fugks this country has to offer..

How did your kids turn out?

Keep talking out both sides of your ass.

You only affirm what most people already know about teachers.

They won't be joining the Peace Corps.

Might be a smart decision, the World and indeed the Peace Corps prob'ly ain't the same as they were forty years ago.

But I'd guess a College Grad currently working at Starbucks could do worse than spend a couple of years being fed and clothed free of charge while teaching English in Eastern Europe or Central Asia...

https://www.peacecorps.gov/volunteer/volunteer-openings/english-education-volunteer-6380br/

Let's hope you aren't teaching English.

LOL.

“Closing” the schools ain’t being discussed AFAIK, at the very least we’ll be back to online.

I expect I’ll be required to be in my classroom “x” number of hours, I have always way exceeded that anyway.