Thirty million people are currently unemployed and collecting an average of 971.88 per week, to sit home and do nothing. Professional football players are being offered to opt out of playing in the upcoming season but will still collect between one and three hundred thousand dollars, for doing nothing. I have heard no complaints about all these people collecting money for absolutely nothing. What I have heard is a lot of ridicule directed at teachers for getting paid while still working hard to provide education to every child in the privacy of their own homes. This is not ideal for the teachers; it is not what they want. It creates different challenges; requiring creative ways in order to attempt to reach every student.
I get that parents are angry that their children are not in school, so are teachers. Children are victims of this virus, and so are teachers. Teachers, parents, and students are in the same rotten boat, trying their best to keep the boat floating and aimed in the right direction. It’s not easy for anyone, and it’s hard not to want to blame someone, but teachers aren’t to blame. They aren’t being paid to sit at home doing nothing. They are and will continue to work hard to teach your children with every tool and creative skill that they can imagine.
Teachers are people too. Many of them and their substitutes are elderly, and many have underlying illnesses that they work with every day, without complaint. Most parents would never know the health problems that teachers live with and work through every day. Now there is a new and deadly threat to those teachers and the substitutes they count on when they are sick, Covid 19. Teachers are essential, but not expendable, and they have every right and reason to be afraid for themselves and their students.
That being said, you have a right to be angry, you should be angry, but remember who has done this to you, your children, and teachers everywhere, China, and don’t ever forget that! If you have to pin a sign on your wall, don’t ever forget what China has done to hurt you, and your children, and everyone everywhere. China has done this; it is they who deserve your anger, not teachers.