I think it’s fair to say that minority kids are disproportionately impacted in a negative way by schools being online. Schools should be the only places open and teachers should be receiving hazard pay like military gets in a war zone
Ok I'm a teacher in Germany. I'm already well paid.
But we are constantly overworked. I try to get part time but no chance "we don't have enough math teachers you have to work fulltime."
Honestly the schools closing in April was so nice. In online conferences I could mute all children and only unmute them when they wanted to say something productive while in class it is a constant struggle against the clowns with the younger children. I could sleep long enough because I didn't have to be in front of a class at 7:20 in the morning. I usually had all my assignments done by wednesday and then mostly answered requests from kids and parents in my pyjamas. My mental health honestly greatly improved even in quarantine.
I get your point poor children and minorities suffer a disproportionate negative effect from this (but also the spoiled failsons of rich families who never learned organizing their work), but I would rather have a compensation I could actually use like teaching one class less next year instead of more money that I'm too tired to actually spent.
Not really. Ideally, we'd actually have a 6 week full lockdown. If we're not going to do that though and we have to prioritize what should remain open, first priority should be public services like libraries and schools.
Eh.
Online school sucks. If there is anything that we should prioritize having open, it's schools.
If we can have restaurants open with the kitchen staff breathing down each other's necks, we should have schools open.
You're internalizing the logic of working during the pandemic
I think it’s fair to say that minority kids are disproportionately impacted in a negative way by schools being online. Schools should be the only places open and teachers should be receiving hazard pay like military gets in a war zone
Ok I'm a teacher in Germany. I'm already well paid. But we are constantly overworked. I try to get part time but no chance "we don't have enough math teachers you have to work fulltime." Honestly the schools closing in April was so nice. In online conferences I could mute all children and only unmute them when they wanted to say something productive while in class it is a constant struggle against the clowns with the younger children. I could sleep long enough because I didn't have to be in front of a class at 7:20 in the morning. I usually had all my assignments done by wednesday and then mostly answered requests from kids and parents in my pyjamas. My mental health honestly greatly improved even in quarantine.
I get your point poor children and minorities suffer a disproportionate negative effect from this (but also the spoiled failsons of rich families who never learned organizing their work), but I would rather have a compensation I could actually use like teaching one class less next year instead of more money that I'm too tired to actually spent.
Not really. Ideally, we'd actually have a 6 week full lockdown. If we're not going to do that though and we have to prioritize what should remain open, first priority should be public services like libraries and schools.
That's not internalizing some nefarious logic.