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Originally Posted by BigRedChief
My wife is teaching remotely. Only 2 teachers are teaching remotely out of 35 in her school. Right now its a parents choice to stay online or in the classroom.
She was told they were expecting the Florida governor to ban remote learning soon. Threaten school districts with a loss of funds. Remote is cheaper and the parents are choosing that option. It's just politics.
She has 30 years of experience. She's still doing it out of a love of teaching. It's who she is. She will be forced to quit if they ban online learning.
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My wife is a teacher and they are seeing the opposite in virtual vs in school teaching. Most parents have elected to send their kids back to in-school learning. I believe her school district is at 80% capacity of pre-Covid attendance.
As another poster pointed out, the school districts were not prepared for this and who can fault them? Nobody was prepared for this stuff.
The PPE that the district supplied to my wife for her classroom was woefully inadequate and she ended up buying a lot of PPE with her own money.
She even went as far as to by a clear shower curtain to put up around her desk, so kids won't randomly approach it, because the plexiglass dividers the district provided were only about 18 inches tall.
the lack of substitutes is an even bigger issue. Pay is low and the normal subs are not wanting to risk getting exposed/infected to Covid