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"While plenty of the blowback teachers as a group are receiving is fair and reasonable considering the context of nearly a year of shuttered schools... .". Experts say that it's possible to open schools safely, not that you can just open schools and call it safe. If I as an educator got the accomodations that hospital workers got I would be happy to go back- if I weren't pregnant.

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Unfortunately I think the profession of teaching just attracts lazy, I want to take the easy way out and not be held accountable people. Many factors go into this...their cake schedule, the protection they have, their hours, lifetime pensions, and benefits.

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I was with you until the end. The complaining parents are a privileged group that are used to getting everything they wanted when they bought into their school district and now hopefully have learned their lesson and will help the other struggling parents who have struggled with the schools bc they are poor. Wow!

Bottom line is teachers in most of the country negotiated jumping in line ahead of this with a fifty percent chance of death of they got COVID, and whether good or bad teachers in an ethical or occupational sense, as is the case for all unions, ALL the teachers benefit.

Why on earth we are still talking about not opening schools full time is a corruption scandal of epic proportions. May I remind you a few months back EVERY. SINGLE. LOST. JOB. For that week was a woman. Nationally.

They got to jump the line and get a vaccine and now it’s time to teach.

Shame on you for gaslighting parents writing about their abuse then abusing them.

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This is a broad generalization, but teachers are generally not the brightest members of our society. Of the many teachers I know in the Chicago area, most are the type that scored a 21 on their ACT and got a "masters degree" from some bogus university to increase their pay and pension. There are certainly exceptions, but mediocre intelligence, limited life experience from decades in public schools, and the safety of being un-fireable with lifetime pensions makes teachers too callous, self-centered, and ignorant of the often harsh realities of life the rest of us deal with. Who would you rather have teaching your kids about science - a certified professional engineer with real world experience? Someone who built a business or developed some useful innovation? Or some guy who went to Illinois State University and has done nothing but taught his whole professional life? These people are a joke for the most part, and like any organized syndicate a variety of entrenched interests keep them enshrined in their positions. If we want to solve this mess, I believe the biggest impediment is rethinking the process of accreditation, letting more meritorious members of the community get involved in the classroom, making school bidding processes (ie for building contractors) more open to scrutiny, and replacing standardized curricula with an emphasis on actual learning. If free-thinking private schools can do it, public schools can too. First, taxpayers need to organize to take control of the public resources THEY pay for.

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