I'm stuck at home quarantined with Covid-19, otherwise I would! Luckily it's just an "issue", so I'll get out at congregate with everyone I know so the Libs don't win!
Glad you are staying home! I had a potential contact 2 weeks ago...I was in contact with a student that had a sibling that had Covid. We were all quarantined until we got the go ahead that we were good. Enjoy your quarantine!
Wow that's fucked up Joe. If I had a student that potentially had covid I'd have told him to stay away from the immunocompromised and old family members
Me too! Society has proven over and over that children take every single thing they are told in education to adulthood! Tell me again what you teach?
I try to teach everyone I meet not to deny science like you do! Hopefully I've gotten through to a few!
Hey thanks for showing up in a thread that you have nothing to do with professionally. I actually taught science and the scientific method to everyone of my students for 3 years. I also follow the scientific method in my current work and life.
You're welcome! Congrats on your 3 years of teaching 5th grade science! Now, can you please explain in a coherent way why you think that Covid-19 isn't a big deal?
That's very nice of you! But I taught higher level than 5th grade science. To put it succinctly...the numbers. The numbers tell me that Corona isn't as deadly as advertised. If someone has symptoms, stay home. If someone at home is vulnerable stay away from them. People should wear masks, it at it the least makes others feel better, & usually decreases transmission of the virus depending on use of the mask.
Thanks to our democratic process, I contribute to the salaries of our public educators, therefore I have the right to voice my opinion on our MAGA teachers that bastardize science to meet their personal opinions. You suck, bro, and your false sense of smugness endangers many people beyond the limited scope of your imagination.
That's what I thought. You aren't actually involved in education. You've got lofty ideals without having first hand experience of what actually occurs in many classrooms. You have a relatively common view of what should happen without actually knowing what actually occurs in classrooms. You aren't uncommon. These days people tend to think they can do jobs that they weren't trained to do.. Personally I put my money where my mouth is and transitioned to a career in education where I wouldn't make much money compared to my previous career but I get to have an impact on the future of communities. Also I never included MAGA in my teaching and never disparaged students that had political views of any type. You are barking up the wrong tree and I hope you just leave this alone.
Serious question what science do you actually teach. I teach AP Biology and AP Chemistry, and I teach my kids how viruses actually work, and this is truly what people don’t understand. A virus that kills its host very quickly, like Ebola, is actually a very poor virus because if the host dies, the virus in such host actually dies. This is a very efficient virus, in that it’s infection rate is really high compared to its mortality rate. What’s gets lost is mutation of viruses and it’s ability to move from a lysogenic cycle, or rest cycle to the lyric cycle, which is the one that destroys cells and wreaks havoc on your body. We do not know enough about the virus to not say in a month that this sucker mutates to become more deadly and starts killing 50% more people within days, but I sure as fuck don’t want to be around people where that could be happening and I don’t know. Hope is to have a vaccine by January, so why can we not do a semester of virtual and then just switch to actual school in January when I could possibly be vaccinated against this.
got our survey results back...74% of staff are uncomfortable/very uncomfortable with returning. 68% of parents imagine making your staff come in and do something 74% of them feel unsafe doing
Our parents just got the survey and the initial responses were very few opting for virtual if given the choice
the snag in that is districts making you lock that in for the year. i imagine there are parents who would opt for the virtual option indefinitely if they had the option to go back later in the year if they felt comfortable
i believe we had like 75% of our parents say they would send their kids back full time like we were prior to all the shut down
Ours is by semester. You can’t go back and forth because all scheduling will be based on the number of students in the building. Now, that particular survey question was only in regards to if we open full and in person. I’m not sure how parents responded based on hybrid or 100% virtual option for everyone.
So I guess children will just go uneducated this year and beyond it is a lose-lose deal because virtual teaching is mostly ineffective and some students probably don’t have the right equipment to do it but if you don’t do it then you risk people getting sick
Also you screw up the single parent households or households that rely on both parents working if you choose to do virtual learning because you are cutting off most of their income it is shitty no matter how you think about it plus the local/state government loses some of their tax revenue from places being shut down which trickles down to budget cuts and salary freezes
the only ones winning here are the billionaires and politicians in Washington DC everyone else is a loser
inept leadership and hilljacks got us into this pickle. teachers shouldn’t have to die or kill their family to bail us out.
neither should nurses, doctors, essential government employees, grocery store workers, convenience store clerks, fast food employees, etc its more the billionaires who control the media and what comes out of there than the hilljacks who are too stupid to understand
All of the people you just described aren't locked in 20×20 rooms with 18-22 humans (they're lucky if it's that low) for 7 hours who aren't capable of fully grasping the importance of social distancing and other precautions required to mitigate risk of spreading a potentially fatal virus. But other than that, I see your point
What are they gonna do when a teacher has to miss weeks for coronavirus and they can’t find a substitute dumb enough or desperate enough for cash to fill in?
do these other jobs not have any human contact or what? The teacher god worship thinking that they are the only ones at risk here act is getting old.
The students’ start date just got pushed back a week So that we can spend another week of Training on virtual teaching and advanced cleaning to support the hybrid mode they’re going to announce soon.
the virtual positions for my wife's district are a joke. you're expected to be available the entire day which is fine. but also they are going to work with parent's schedules so it would also possibly entail being available until 9pm. and if a parent decides virtual isnt working and puts their kid back in the class, if that puts your numbers under a certain count, your position is eliminated and you don't get your in person job back. they're really just trying to make it as unattractive as possible so they can force teachers into coming in. they're also having four days in person classes, not requiring masks and not encouraging or planning for social distancing. the only way this half assed plan is going to be thwarted is if cases continue to spike so unfortunately that may be the only hope