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I am waiting for confirmation. But I was told by some teachers yesterday at our school district here in Missouri. If a kid in a classroom gets it. Then the class and the teacher have to be home for 14 days. I’m guessing we go virtual less than a month into school. Then they will send packets home made up of new material the child should learn to keep them on schedule for return
 
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hUTch2002 said:
Damn, that sounds similar to Knox County. We backed up to the 17th and now the 24th because they couldn’t find enough teachers and weren’t prepared. They haven’t forced 100% virtual yet but it’s coming. Davethevol is probably right about the plan to teach all kids how to use the Chromebooks and then within a couple weeks shut it all down. I hope not. I have 3 boys, one of which is autistic. My mother in law watches them when not in school. How is she supposed to manage keeping an eye on all 3? Even if I can help some since I’m working from home, my autistic son will not sit at a computer all day or even for an hour and take classes. Maybe if someone sat right there with him you could get an hour. Maybe. These are just the logistical concerns. There are plenty of others with quality of education, social development, and so on. Hopefully they’ll stay in school but that’s also going to be a pain with all of the crazy rules they’re developing. On a side note, I love the fear porn CNN is peddling this morning. There’s an article talking about what happened when kids went back to school in 1918. Yes, because things now are so similar.
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I'm a little lucky because I can do 90% of my job from home, but it is frustrating with all the issues we are having doing this virtually. I can't tell you how many times we are in a chat with the teacher asking how to turn in assignments, get access to stuff, downloading past the firewall, etc...and the only response we get is "we are working through the technical difficulties". I mean they had 2 full months to prepare and plan this Summer, and even longer if you count last spring. Plus my kid is in middle school where he has a different teacher for every subject and each teacher has their own page with their own processes and organization of files on completing and turning in assignments. And it's only Wednesday of the 1st week.
 
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rjd970 said:
I'm a little lucky because I can do 90% of my job from home, but it is frustrating with all the issues we are having doing this virtually. I can't tell you how many times we are in a chat with the teacher asking how to turn in assignments, get access to stuff, downloading past the firewall, etc...and the only response we get is "we are working through the technical difficulties". I mean they had 2 full months to prepare and plan this Summer, and even longer if you count last spring. Plus my kid is in middle school where he has a different teacher for every subject and each teacher has their own page with their own processes and organization of files on completing and turning in assignments. And it's only Wednesday of the 1st week.
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That sucks.
 
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rjd970 said:
I'm a little lucky because I can do 90% of my job from home, but it is frustrating with all the issues we are having doing this virtually. I can't tell you how many times we are in a chat with the teacher asking how to turn in assignments, get access to stuff, downloading past the firewall, etc...and the only response we get is "we are working through the technical difficulties". I mean they had 2 full months to prepare and plan this Summer, and even longer if you count last spring. Plus my kid is in middle school where he has a different teacher for every subject and each teacher has their own page with their own processes and organization of files on completing and turning in assignments. And it's only Wednesday of the 1st week.
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I know this isn’t true across the board, but I know of some teachers and teacher’s unions that were advocating for “full funding” of schools during the pandemic. Part of this was to pay them for summer planning and preparation. They were not going to do additional work during the summer to prepare without being paid for it. And that makes sense to me.
 
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newyorkvol said:
I know this isn’t true across the board, but I know of some teachers and teacher’s unions that were advocating for “full funding” of schools during the pandemic. Part of this was to pay them for summer planning and preparation. They were not going to do additional work during the summer to prepare without being paid for it. And that makes sense to me.
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They were paid for a full year's worth of work right?
 
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newyorkvol said:
I know this isn’t true across the board, but I know of some teachers and teacher’s unions that were advocating for “full funding” of schools during the pandemic. Part of this was to pay them for summer planning and preparation. They were not going to do additional work during the summer to prepare without being paid for it. And that makes sense to me.
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Wtf?
 
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newyorkvol said:
I know this isn’t true across the board, but I know of some teachers and teacher’s unions that were advocating for “full funding” of schools during the pandemic. Part of this was to pay them for summer planning and preparation. They were not going to do additional work during the summer to prepare without being paid for it. And that makes sense to me.
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Were they already paid for the year? Are you saying they should have been paid more just to plan?

Also - I'm here teaching my kid at home while trying to juggle work. They aren't being much help at all. Seems to me if they weren't paid over the Summer they are getting 9-weeks full-time pay for working half-days, at best, with no students right now.

I'm sorry - there is very little empathy coming from me on the teachers plight here.
 
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utvolpj said:
They were paid for a full year's worth of work right?
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Teachers aren't paid for the time they don't work in the summer. Some school systems allow you to have your 10-month salary stretched over the summer but, that is not being paid for work done during those two months.
 
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BeardedVol said:
Teachers aren't paid for the time they don't work in the summer. Some school systems allow you to have your 10-month salary stretched over the summer but, that is not being paid for work done during those two months.
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They are supposed to be professionals, dig in.
 
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BeardedVol said:
You refuse a paycheck from your employer 2 months out of the year on the basis of being a professional?
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I do what my employer needs for them to be successful. If that requires working from home or in person at night or the weekend, then so be it. Done it my whole life. Hold yourself to some professionalism.
 
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allvol123 said:
I do what my employer needs for them to be successful. If that requires working from home or in person at night or the weekend, then so be it. Done it my whole life. Hold yourself to some professionalism.
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And you do that without receiving financial compensation for the hours worked?
 
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BeardedVol said:
Teachers aren't paid for the time they don't work in the summer. Some school systems allow you to have your 10-month salary stretched over the summer but, that is not being paid for work done during those two months.
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Hold up - teachers salaries are over 10 months? I always thought it was a 12-month salary (like everybody else) and they could choose to get it over 10 months or 12 months.

However, the point still stands that most got paid for the last 9 weeks of the spring semester for sitting at home and checking in for an hour a day to tell students they were working on technical difficulties. At least that is what my experience was. They should have been planning and coordinating a plan for next year or worked the summer to get it done.
 
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rjd970 said:
They were actually set to go in person on Aug 3, then it got pushed back to Aug 17, then we had a choice to go in person or virtual the first semester with the option to change in December, then it is everyone including in person is forced to go virtual at least the first half of Fall semester.

Every decision along the way was forced by the fear peddlers and morons shaming (like a lot of the corona crew on here) the school system to keep everyone home. Think about the old people, this thing is deadly and you will be killing people, things are getting worse, you will be amplifying the problem, etc.

It's totally ridiculous.
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Is this Madison county?
 
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rjd970 said:
Hold up - teachers salaries are over 10 months? I always thought it was a 12-month salary (like everybody else) and they could choose to get it over 10 months or 12 months.

However, the point still stands that most got paid for the last 9 weeks of the spring semester for sitting at home and checking in for an hour a day to tell students they were working on technical difficulties. At least that is what my experience was. They should have been planning and coordinating a plan for next year or worked the summer to get it done.
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No it's 10 months of pay. Some school systems just allow them to elect to be paid less for the 10 to cover two monthly checks in the summer.

You need to talk to the local school superintendent and the state department education about why they twiddled their thumbs for months instead of busting their butts to get a functioning distance learning program ready for the return to school this fall. The teachers themselves can only work with the tools they are provided, and I'd say most of them had zero say in what tools were chosen for these haphazardly thrown together remote learning programs.
 
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BeardedVol said:
No it's 10 months of pay. Some school systems just allow them to elect to be paid less for the 10 to cover two monthly checks in the summer.

You need to talk to the local school superintendent and the state department education about why they twiddled their thumbs for months instead of busting their butts to get a functioning distance learning program ready for the return to school this fall. The teachers themselves can only work with the tools they are provided, and I'd say most of them had zero say in what tools were chosen for these haphazardly thrown together remote learning programs.
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So when somebody says a teacher only gets paid $x/per year they are wrong. They get paid $x/10months. They are not being paid for a full year.
 
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rjd970 said:
So when somebody says a teacher only gets paid $x/per year they are wrong. They get paid $x/10months. They are not being paid for a full year.
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From what understand that is correct. And actually, most contracts are written that they work a maximum number of days/year. In NY it’s 180.
 
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rjd970 said:
So when somebody says a teacher only gets paid $x/per year they are wrong. They get paid $x/10months. They are not being paid for a full year.
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My uncle used to work at Dollywood during the summer when he wasn't teaching...wonder how many other k-12 educators have summer gigs?
 
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