re: Mississippi - Teachers rally against working under the guise of Covid

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Louisiana’s Teachers’ Unions and Louisiana Trial Attorneys opposed the immunity just granted to schools for COVID exposure.

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At first I thought Teacher’s Unions were using the situation for pay raises or increased sick days. That’s what unions do. Use any possible leverage to benefit their members.

I was wrong. This purely political. They aren’t representing their members or trying to protect them.

These teachers better be careful what they wish for. If virtual teaching starts to catch on, one really good teacher could teach for an unlimited number of kids from anywhere in the world. Lots of crappy teachers would be out of a job.

The first person to figure out this model will make insane money.

When you think about it logically, most people are ready to back to work to get away from their kids. For teachers who don't want to deal with kids, going back to work isn't the way to go.

Homeschooling now is easier than it’s ever been, and with more people having flexible work schedules, the barriers to switch are falling. If choosing between the county school’s crappy online school and a top notch online program, I’m switching.

Autistic and Aspies need and crave human interaction. This thing has been horrible for them.

So they don’t want to work but still want to get paid? We love our teachers unions don’t we folks?

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Teachers are planning to strike in some areas

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Maybe they should strike virtually

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It's these dumbasses that give teachers a bad name. I teach and coach football at a public school here in Mississippi. This was the first I've heard of this. I've been at summer workouts with 50 or so players since June 1. I'm ready to go to work. I'm ready to teach in the classroom, not that online stuff that is a joke. I'm ready to coach football. Our district is opening for students in the classroom the first week of August. If these losers don't want to do their job don't pay them, but please don't dump me and most other teachers in with these losers. All teachers I know want to go back and do their job. We are no more special than fast food workers, grocery workers, truck drivers, factory workers, etc.

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Same here.. try to stay out of these threads usually

I won’t be at the Protest

I will say that I think online learning will be better this time if necessary bc it will be better prepared and students will be more accountable instead of giving them their 9 weeks grade in the spring , but kids need as much face to face as possible . Here in Mississippi , we just had our highest single day total and you know numbers are going to go up when school starts. We are required to have two weeks lessons ready with each unit without any notice ... tells me they plan for some virtual unfortunately

Districts were not prepared in the spring but SHOULD be this time

More proof that children do not pass infections to adults:

Covid-19 in schoolchildren – A comparison between Finland and Sweden

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In the contact tracings in primary schools in Finland, there has been hardly any evidence of children infecting other persons. The Swedish comparison of number of reported cases among staff in day care and primary school to number of cases in other professions does not show any increased risk for teachers.

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The overall cumulative incidence among school-aged children in Finland and Sweden is similar even though Finland closed schools for most children and Sweden did not. Sweden has been much more affected by the pandemic than Finland but this does not show in the incidence among children.

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