A brief rant, posted for posterity

[sabotabby]

Teachers in Ontario really need to get it out in the news that we have been teaching, and students have been learning, this whole time. I’m seeing ostensibly “progressive” groups like People For Education pushing this narrative that if we don’t get kids back in school ASAP (sitting in desks in rows with masks strapped to their faces and in mortal danger, which as we know is the best way to learn) that they will somehow “lose their year.”

Meanwhile our instructional minutes have increased and besides, didn’t Lecce say that online learning was so awesome it needs to be mandatory?

I'm used to being loathed and gaslit by the right, but I'll never get used to being thrown under the bus by the left. I had to request that folks on FB filter me out of their pro-school-reopening posts because it's causing me anxiety attacks on a daily basis to know just how many people are happy to risk my life.

Comments

[frenzy]

We've all lost a year. Yes, it sucks for students, youth, developing. Yes, online learning probably isnt as good as face-to-face. WE'VE ALL LOST A YEAR. WE'RE ALL STRUGGLING. THE KIDS ARE NO EXCEPTION. god. We're so close to geting folks vaccinated. Just wait for the next school year in september. it'll probably be possible in sept. Or close to possible, anyway.

[sabotabby]

Right??? That's what I keep saying. It sucks but almost every other person on the planet has had to put their lives on hold for a year.

[dewline]

Including our financial collapses.

Well...some of us, anyway. Others had them accelerated unfairly.