re: Don’t pay teachers to not teach!

Honest question: if this was the caveat to keeping schools closed how many teachers would be up in arms demanding to go back?

“Think of the children.”

30 per class is the norm. If anyone in your hallway is out and no sub shows (very common), you get an extra 10-15 packed in the back to monitor as well while you teach your 30.

Also, to those saying “we only need one third of the teachers”... it is required in my district that I monitor and give daily feedback to each student each day. We cannot post random videos and “let a computer grade it”. We are teaching live all day. Also, adjust lesson plans based on those findings, and all of this must be done when not teaching. Computers cannot create accommodation plans for special needs students either.

A computer program grade the assignment? Thats funny

You should see some of these tests

Yes. 33 years of age

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And also, the vast majority of teachers can't wait to get back into the classroom.


They better let their unions know ASAP because the opposite is being advocated on their behalf.

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The teachers who are worth a shite aren't part of the same unions you hear about in the news. My wife and the other teachers who actually love doing their job are part of a different teacher's union that focuses on legal resources for teachers who are forced into shitty situations by the admins. The teachers unions you hear about are the ones that the shitty teachers join.

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My wife is a teacher in the public schools as well.

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Oh well then we should get unbiased, objective, “real talk” from you.


Never met a guilty defendant in the courtroom either.

I won’t speak to custodians, because I think a lot of them don’t do shite, but the lunch staff has been working full time hours throughout.

EBR is a district that gives free lunch, because unfortunately, there are several students who have it as there one consistent meal.

We’ve had designated times for parents and guardians to pick up meals.


As to the aide question, some teachers get paraprofessionals to assist them depending on the class (though I’ve only met a few paras who try at there jobs). Those are paid positions. As to college students, I guess I could pay one under the table to help me, but I’d rather just half-arse it if they gave me 100 kids to teach online than come out of pocket (not that they would give me 100 kids).

If you meant student teachers, they get their assignments, and that varies from school to school. My school gets maybe 1 or 2 a year.

Others I know get 4-5, but when you have 40 or so teaching positions, it doesn’t go a long way.

But that’s not an issue, because people with good time management can handle the workload at current ratios. Those who can’t should find a different job.