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by MACCA » Tue May 19, 2020 9:23 am
Sometimes there's little to no choice but to return to normality for some, obviously whilst sitting on full pay, work load drastically reduced and able to do any work from home, the eagerness to go back will be somewhat minimal for some.
If I'm the only one who thinks or can see that then fair enough.
I just dont know how people can say in 3 weeks things wont have improved significantly enough to return.
As I put early on, they are simply "planning on returning" I'm sure that will be reviewed every few days, but plans have to start somewhere.
I dont know what the end game is, what do conditions, stats, figures need to be before its deemed "safe enough", I honestly dont know, but IMO children cannot be expected their lives not to be majorly affected by having 6-12 months in isolation and out of education.
What's the counter offer of when's a good time, simply saying it's not safe is a bit of a cop out to me, everyone returning to work at present is somewhat at risk to something somewhere.
The thing that probably hasn't or doesn't help teachers is the way that everything always circulates around pay, packages, working conditions etc.
In a local school I and a few others on this board attend or use, there's been teacher strikes over their package deemed essential and needed, yet parents fined for taking their child on holiday, there's barely a week goes by without a teacher being off ill with stress etc. Supply teachers all over the place sometimes for the MAJORITY of the school YEAR
So yes my experience might just be unfortunate, and I do appreciate there are fantastic teachers out there as I have met and worked with some, but there are more than a handful in my opinion that just want an easier rude than the rest, and are forever complaining about anything and everything, rather than just getting kn with things like the rest if us seem to have too.