As a teacher, then who is in the schools? If all the teachers that don’t want to go back quit, that will cause a million issues, too. Trust me, teachers “want” to be back, but I have talked to not a single one that feels safe going back. All feel pretty trapped because, as this thread kinda shows, society is counting on us to go back to fill in all the gaps that society cannot provide. The mentality is we “should” go back. “For the kids,” “like everyone else,” but schools are very different from what people outside of teaching perceive. The way the days will have to be micromanaged is exhausting BEFORE providing anything people “expect” us to provide....including an education.
I am a teacher and I’m very, very worried about going back. We are at the mercy of our parents, basically. At the age I teach, sickness is constant. Ugh.
The thought of what I will have to do every day when my students leave and when I (and my kids, since I teach) get home is overwhelming to say the least. I’m buying separate home/school shoes. I might rotate their backpacks and lunchboxes. Clothes off and shower right away, disinfect the car with nonexistent Lysol spray/wipes. This all sucks.