Teacher Bashers Gonna Bash — Even In a Pandemic
Teaching during a pandemic is challenging.
And some teachers are facing more hardships than others. There are teachers who have been infected with Covid-19. There are teachers who have family members who have been infected and are currently fighting for their lives. There are teachers who have family members who have already died of Covid-19. There are teachers who are physically healthy but are suffering mental trauma from all that is going on. And, yes, there are teachers who have died — infected, some of them, in schools that should have been closed a week or two sooner.
One challenge that some teachers have is that they have their own children at home. Not to diminish the very real issues that teachers who do not have children at home are facing, but since this is the struggle that I am dealing with most, it is the one that I can address with the most detail. I have two children, 12 years old and 9 years old. My older child has adjusted pretty well to remote learning so far. My younger child has not. For me, this is my hardship and I’m lucky that, at least for now, this is the thing that occupies a lot of my energy. I could have much bigger problems.
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