Teachers behaving badly

[mwulf]

I actually quit my union in LA. They would rather spend union dues on low income housing in Portland and other social justice causes and they made us wear masks in class waaaaaaaay too long. I went back out to LA last year around this time and visited my old school and kids were still wearing masks. The damage forced masking did on those kids was sad. It wasn't about germs it was about lack of confidence to show their face. Even in outdoor PE

 

[Huskers123456]

I think everyone realized that under the best of circumstances 95%+ of people in this country aren't cut out to be teaching beyond a few questions a night. I know I'm not. Throw in people trying to remote work and it was a disaster. I can't keep my elementary kids on track during a remote day when I have the day off, let alone when I trying to work. Damn that was stressful.

 

[BTF69]

I think everyone realized that under the best of circumstances 95%+ of people in this country aren't cut out to be teaching beyond a few questions a night. I know I'm not. Throw in people trying to remote work and it was a disaster. I can't keep my elementary kids on track during a remote day when I have the day off, let alone when I trying to work. Damn that was stressful.

It was INSANE.

That is why I have said, that timeline I gave explains it all, from Hero to lazy lefty losers. In March, we were amazing humans. Not so much in August.

I get too, I really do, it makes sense. Especially if your kids were little.

 

[Huskers123456]

It was INSANE.

That is why I have said, that timeline I gave explains it all, from Hero to lazy lefty losers. In March, we were amazing humans. Not so much in August.

I get too, I really do, it makes sense. Especially if your kids were little.

I still think you're heroes. I know I couldn't do it. Some jobs I straight up couldn't do. If I taught, I would for sure be in jail for choking some bratty kid out. Same for cops. Couldn't do it. Would be beating people left and right. Tasing people.

 

[BTF69]

I still think you're heroes. I know I couldn't do it. Some jobs I straight up couldn't do. If I taught, I would for sure be in jail for choking some bratty kid out. Same for cops. Couldn't do it. Would be beating people left and right. Tasing people.

I could not be a cop either. I would be terrified to pull over people.

 

[HuskerO]

I teach in a self contained behavior classroom. I only have 8 kids in my class. Even with only 8 kids, guess who has the lowest percentage of absent students every day, week, month, grading period, semester and year. My kids will come in sniffling and sneezing, body aches, flu like symptoms, but they never have a fever because their parents load them up on a rotating cocktail of Tylenol, Motrin or Advil. But I can promise you the parents aren't doing that to make sure they are getting in person learning.

Do you think, during Covid, parents got frustrated with teachers who didn't want to teach in-person because those parents just got too annoyed with their little Susie & Johnny being around them?

 

[Huskers123456]

Do you think, during Covid, parents got frustrated with teachers who didn't want to teach in-person because those parents just got too annoyed with their little Susie & Johnny being around them?

Combination of things but for myself, it's impossible to work and have school-aged kids at home while learning. Summer? No problem. My kids are self-sufficient. They can play outside or do whatever. But keeping them on task for school while working? Not a chance.

 

[HuskerO]

Just answer this honestly, please

Have you EVER once been annoying with your kid(s) while they were at home?

You have this uncanny ability to make 2 different situations seem like they're the exact same.

Even if I got annoyed with my kiddos in the summer of 2020, me wanting them to go to school in-person in the fall of 2020 and beyond isn't the same as me being annoyed with them because I had to tell them 6 times to clean their room.

So of course kids annoy their parents, I never denied that. But that's not the reason why they actually wanted them to go to school during Covid.

 

[HuskerO]

Combination of things but for myself, it's impossible to work and have school-aged kids at home while learning. Summer? No problem. My kids are self-sufficient. They can play outside or do whatever. But keeping them on task for school while working? Not a chance.

That too. So your main reason for wanting them to go back to school wasn't because they annoyed you too often, correct?

 

[Huskers123456]

That too. So your main reason for wanting them to go back to school wasn't because they annoyed you too often, correct?

Correct.

 

[Tuco Salamanca]

Do you think, during Covid, parents got frustrated with teachers who didn't want to teach in-person because those parents just got too annoyed with their little Susie & Johnny being around them?

You realize teachers, themselves, had very little to do with the decisions to teach in person or not.

What happened is that you had different sets of rules at that time. Some businesses reopened and some even made their employees report to work. Then you had some states where the teacher's unions and the state education agencies were still fighting to keep distance learning. So there was a conflict with people who were required to report to work and no place to put there kids.

But you can't tell me that parents weren't annoyed at dealing with and teaching their own children, even those that weren't working. That isn't what they signed up for. IF they wanted to teach their kids, they would have home schooled.

 

[HuskerO]

You realize teachers, themselves, had very little to do with the decisions to teach in person or not.

What happened is that you had different sets of rules at that time. Some businesses reopened and some even made their employees report to work. Then you had some states where the teacher's unions and the state education agencies were still fighting to keep distance learning. So there was a conflict with people who were required to report to work and no place to put there kids.

But you can't tell me that parents weren't annoyed at dealing with and teaching their own children, even those that weren't working. That isn't what they signed up for. IF they wanted to teach their kids, they would have home schooled.

Which is why I specifically said "teachers who didn't want to teach in-person".

You last paragraph is not the same as what @BTF69 is saying as to  why teachers became the villians.

*His claim is that parents started to blame the teachers becauae those same parents just got too annoyed with their kids being around them.*

Those parents realized they hated being at home all day with their kids, not because they don't love their kids but because it is ****ing annoying to be with them 24/7.

So what did they do? They attacked teachers. Now teachers were just being "lazy" because they did not want to have kids in person. Teachers were making it "political" because they did not want to have kids in person.

 

[Tuco Salamanca]

Which is why I specifically said "teachers who didn't want to teach in-person".

You last paragraph is not the same as what @BTF69 is saying as to  why teachers became the villians.

*His claim is that parents started to blame the teachers becauae those same parents just got too annoyed with their kids being around them.*

It is the same, parents were done dealing with their kids because they were around all the time. You can attempt to be "parent of the year" and pretend that you were ONLY concerned about the education but any normal person doesn't want to have their kids with them 24/7 365, especially if they are trying to work their own job from home.

Again, as far as teachers who didn't want to teach in person. They had no choice. If the schools opened for in person, they either went to work or they lost their jobs, at least here in Texas. If the schools stayed distance learning, then the teachers taught the students from their home. Teachers complaining about having to go to the classroom is one thing. Teachers complain about a lot of things, but they still come in and do their jobs, or they change career fields.

If I wanted to overgeneralize this, it was liberal teachers complaining and liberal cities and states that were fighting the return to in person classes.

 

[HuskerO]

It is the same, parents were done dealing with their kids because they were around all the time. You can attempt to be "parent of the year" and pretend that you were ONLY concerned about the education but any normal person doesn't want to have their kids with them 24/7 365, especially if they are trying to work their own job from home.

Again, as far as teachers who didn't want to teach in person. They had no choice. If the schools opened for in person, they either went to work or they lost their jobs, at least here in Texas. If the schools stayed distance learning, then the teachers taught the students from their home. Teachers complaining about having to go to the classroom is one thing. Teachers complain about a lot of things, but they still come in and do their jobs, or they change career fields.

If I wanted to overgeneralize this, it was liberal teachers complaining and liberal cities and states that were fighting the return to in person classes.

Haha, no it's not. The education concern doesn't have to be the ONLY concern for it to be the most important concern. And the most important concern by a mile.

We were seeing the negative learning affects of kids not having in-person school. Don't you think that was the driving force more so than "Get this kid away from me, they're annoying me." ???

You keep bringing up the teachers who wanted to teach in-person, but weren't allowed to. No one was getting upset at those teachers so they're not part of this discussion.