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A brief rant, posted for posterity
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.
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.
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A Discord server buddy is a sixth-grade teacher in Florida and just survived COVID. She was horrified to discover that after her diagnosis they declined to isolate or quarantine any of the students in her classroom except the actively symptomatic one she'd clearly caught it from.
Her first day back was parent-teacher conferences and she was like what am I even supposed to say? hey i didn't die? keep your actively symptomatic sick children at home please? wtf.
(She spent ten days locked in her bedroom, since she shares a 1BR with her husband who wasn't sick. She was mostly just excited to get to sit in a chair again, at the end.)