As the school year began, NPR put out a call asking teachers who are also parents to tell us about their experiences. We heard back from nearly 100. They told us of losing colleagues to the coronavirus, staying up past midnight planning lessons and having nightmares about returning to school.
And Geoff Bowman, a high school chemistry teacher in Hillsborough, N.C., with three elementary-age children, seemed to speak for many teachers when he summed up the dilemma:"I love my kids; I love my students. Both deserve my full attention, but ultimately I'm falling short for both."Bethany is a high school science teacher in New Jersey. Her husband teaches French at the same school, and they have three young sons, ages 8, 6 and 4.
One student stopped handing in work altogether. When she finally tracked him down by phone, she says, he started crying and told her he was suicidal. Bethany says her middle child, then a kindergartner, would often be doing lessons until bedtime. He became lonely, anxious and depressed. Then one day, he stopped eating. She said it took a few weeks to fully realize.
Yea join the club.
Nearly every parent is going through this. Teachers aren't the only ones out there. Teachers aren't special in this situation. Don't martyrize them
Thank the Democrats.
Millions have jobs and kids.... what the hell you cryin about
So sad...
Honestly teachers are no diff than anyone else. Management in all business has been incredibly difficult!! And add to that if you lost both parents through it all. Our family directly effected this way & we still know it’s not as bad as others have suffered.
Can you imagine having a job where you actually have to produce positive results in order to keep it? I would think the next generation was the future of the country and the older generation is supposed to pave the way for the best environment, not selfish choices. Cops Don't.
So how are teachers different from other working parents?
Grocery Store Managers Feel Torn Between Their Job And Their Own Kids Policemen Feel Torn... Factory Workers Feel Torn... Delivery Drivers Feel Torn... Poor teachers.
Stop the bull crap NPR.....
The answer is for more families to homeschool.
Our school uses a survey to track how students self rate on how they feel about certain topics, peer groups, home life, etc etc. The category of emotional safety has about 75 percent of the student body 'at risk'. Anecdotal, but that's my building, and likely others.
This is absolutely heartbreaking
Having a front row seat to public school remote teaching has reinforced for me that teaching is a job that anyone with a 105 IQ can do.
We are all mentally fatigued and drained. I can’t even say I feel rested being forced to stay home for 7 months without a job and without a normal life. It took a mental toll on me And I guess on many of us.
So are every parent navigating this pandemic. Next headline.
There will be a massive teacher shortage by the start of next school year.
Do substitute teachers still exist?
Perhaps these at-risk teachers should consider becoming permanent virtual teachers. Taxpayers can save millions by giving families the option of face to face or virtual education.
'Heartbreaking.' I thought it might be about all the animals that are burning up.
Tired of hearing these people whine tbh.
This whole situation is distressing. My heart goes out to all educators during this trying time.
tonetalks 😢
I already felt that way before covid
CHOOSE YOUR CHILDREN
The CDC estimates the USA had between 24-62K seasonal Flu deaths for 2019-20. And that’s with a well developed, tested, distributed vaccine.
Heartbreaking. They are the ones that need all our support.
Good thing we pay them so much In this country to make up for it NOTTTT!
KentGlorydog1 Society has been shitting on teachers for decades. Most teachers were working day and night before the pandemic. They often spend their own money on classrooms materials too. Educators are overworked, underpaid, and many are saddled with student loan debt.
The suffering from covid is immense. Parents and teachers, you are all essential. Thank you and please take care.
I am a teacher and I can echo what the educators in the article are saying. I teach my students during the day, and care for my own children and help them with online learning. I stay up until 1-3am planning catching up and preparing for the next day.
Talk to the healthcare workers who are at work and their kids are sitting at home alone fiddling through links independently. This is not sustainable.
No exaggeration my wife has been working 14+ hours a day 7 days a week for 5 months trying to make a framework for hundreds of schools in her district. A few of those months were to make an online summer school program for 15,000 kids. No end in sight if schools remain online....
Of course we do.
A LOT of ppl are in the same boat. I’m a hospice worker with small kids. I need to work but I need to stay home.
187 days. the Number of Days a year a Teacher works for a great benefit package and a pension after 20 years. Please spare us from your pain when yoir unions refuse to let you teach.
im an educator and the reality that society expects us to suddenly be 24 hour a day teachers is surreal. we're asked to do totally new things with no training and no time to prepare AND be available to students in impossible ways. and if we dont we're antagonized
Send them back to school.
Disturbing. Private schools are of course open in person and have been for a long time and there has been zero student to teacher spread. Public school teacher unions are a joke. Shameful people who care about politics over children.
That's the Chalice prageru
Teachers went from hero to zero in the blink of an eye. First, everyone saw how selfless, hard-working they were & the next moment they were stripped of their humanity. Politics & a pandemic has done a number on how we understand what teachers do & what they give up to do it.
Haven't they been back for like a week after 7 months off?
Then leave.
PeachesJenkins4 I hate to say it, but if you can’t afford nannies, extended family networks are very important.
We were by our district to teach our in person students during the day and then go home at night to teach our students who are staying at home.
Open the schools lol.
Teachers unions are domestic terrorist
News flash one child in the United States under the age of 17 has died from Covid19. Teacher mask up and physical distance to teach.
Open the fcking schools
Welcome to the real world. People working in grocery stores and gas stations have the same damn problem.
Get a nanny. Many would be glad to help. Some unscrupulous use it as a way to get some side. Protect the women and children. Keep the kids safe and sane.
filing under 'no sh*t, Sherlock!'
Then send them back to school!!!!
Stop panicking – it’s over Whilst everyone is panicking about the ever-increasing number of cases, we should be celebrating them. COVID is far, far, less deadly then was feared. The Infection Fatality Rate is most likely going to end up around 0.1%, not 1%.
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