Requiring Teachers To Go Back To In-person Classes?

Teachers got vaccination but kids not. So risk is there for kids and Teachers have responsibility of keeping kids socially distanced, all wearing masks.

 

With all the new variants going around I don’t blame anyone for being cautious even after vaccination. Kids are not vaccinated and come from a variety of home environments with different degrees of exposures. Teachers have no control over any of this.
These same parents will be the first to start shrieking if their kid ends up with Covid.

 

I was all in for online learning when COVID hit our area hard. But now after a year and a few months into it, I just can't decide. Things are different here where I live. We have in person school since October. Teachers were teaching from school even when kids were all online. Then slowly all the kids got back into school. Now majority are in person with social distancing. Zoom classes have only assignments no instructions. But teachers have help hours which helps kids to ask questions get help on the material. With that change, online school was just not working for us. Kids having no vaccine for now and younger one going to daycare everyday, the question was how long to keep older one at home? I also go to work in person.

Now kids ride school bus socially distanced, use sanitizer getting in and out of the bus and while at school. Have socially distanced PE times, recess, and lunch. wearing mask all times. For recess when they are outdoor, kids do not need to keep mask on. It is different times, everyone is working through this, not knowing when this will end. So far DD has been in school for only 2 months. It is not enough to tell about any effects, but I feel better than I was before. We have strict protocols when coming home too. But sometimes I feel, we are just being lucky. All in all I feel it was a good decision of teachers coming back to work. Once in a while we hear people tested positive at school and are in quarantine. It has become normal part of our life now.

 

Dear Rihana,

I don't know if the said school district was completely online. In most of the places I know (or where I have freinds), options have been given to parents to choose and all teachers have to go to school - even zoom classes are being held from school. So based on that, I don't know if it is fair or unfair question as much as "Is it possble for teachers to do in person for just a month or so of school". I say only because it falls on the schools' administration to get the buidlings ready, buses ready, have protocols in place for various drills, this and that etc especially if teachers have been doing only zoom and are expecting students to fill classrooms suddenly. Parents were given a choice to switch to inperson every quarter or so. School districts that I know of, that went completely online also resumed with optional inperson/online choices but they started the process almost in March! At this point, it may not be possible for schools to do inperson suddenly especially if there have been union issues. Teachers may not have much say..........perhaps fall it is! I do agree that it is better for students but...how prepared are the schools?

So looks like I have no answer to your question other than saying, most teachers prefer student interaction

 

Not just my area,

but for most other friends and family, it was either inperson or online. In person students did not take any online classes - on occasion like when teachers had to take vaccinations, in person students had to do online classes.