But she thinks that many teachers and certainly most teachers’ unions were very, very wrong on COVID. Not only were they wrong - they missed a real opportunity.
Teachers have been fighting the Right for years on just how essential they are to our country. But at a time when we literally carved our workers into “essential” and “non-essential,” they hid behind computer screens and checked the “non-essential” box.
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All of the teachers I know also know how bad remote learning was for the kids. That doesn’t change the fact that there are a lot of people who shit on public school teachers. They did so well before the pandemic and they’ll do so long after the pandemic.
Does your wife, generally speaking, feel like her and her colleagues care about their students? Do they work after hours to make sure things are set up? Do they complete a lot of trainings in their free time to keep up with requirements? Do they buy supplies their kids would enjoy with their own money? Do they pay for field trips that their poorest kids can’t afford so they’re not left out? These are all things all the teachers I know do, and I’m willing to bet your wife and her colleagues are the same. Like any rule, there will of course be outliers.
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special Ed students, and that many in her profession used disingenuous/irrational concerns about COVID to prevent in-person schooling.
Terrible assumption
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The only people who shit on teachers are the ones who don’t know many.
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have no one in their lives who works in a hospital.
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...of course when things were unknown, humankind needed to protect itself. Of course.
Of course once it was figured out who was and wasn't affected, we needed to push back to normal as quickly as possible. Of course.
The long term effects will be ongoing for years. We will never turn back a fair number of young people who lost formative social years. We will never turn back housing prices. We will never turn back auto prices.