To say there are so many of us now that feel like this

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I know there will be loads of teacher bashing as a result but it’s how so many of us feel. I don’t know what can be done as I want schools open and functioning but the fear that it will be at the expense of my health and/or that of my family. And at the same time, the persistent disconnect with colleagues, the just getting by, the making do...it’s all too much some days.

Thoughts are with my colleagues around the country today.

I'm a social worker and I keep going to work at the to the possible expense of my health and my family.

If all of us SW just stopped then what would happen to the vulnerable ?

This is our lives now I'm afraid. Suck it up or leave.

Sounds like you’re an adult with a job in 2020. Its shit for everyone. You’re not more at risk as a profession according to ONS - it’s still health care and transport workers most at risk.

Put your energy into joining a union and fighting for change or leave. And no, I don’t really care about people leaving the teaching profession because teachers aren’t on par with doctors, scientists or engineers in their need for experience. It’s a mid level job which many people could do.

@AbbyAbal

Sounds like you’re an adult with a job in 2020. Its shit for everyone. You’re not more at risk as a profession according to ONS - it’s still health care and transport workers most at risk. Put your energy into joining a union and fighting for change or leave. And no, I don’t really care about people leaving the teaching profession because teachers aren’t on par with doctors, scientists or engineers in their need for experience. It’s a mid level job which many people could do.

Another teacher bashing post. Getting tedious now.

Why bother posting? Sad.

Good grief, what happened to be kind? Everyone is suffering, everyone.
As a PP said the worst thing about this whole situation is just how fucking nasty many people are being.
Everyone has their own mountain to climb. I'm sure those of us who have public facing jobs sometimes look at the furloughed and feel a bit envious that they can stay safe at home and aren't out being shouted at, coughed on and worked to a pulp and I imagine someone sitting at home on furlough looks at the folk working in public facing jobs and wonder why we're moaning as we still have a paycheck each month.

@rustyjobseeker

A lot of people would love to be in a guaranteed job being paid 100% salary whatever happens. I see it’s not quite as cosy as working from home. Teaching children should be a face to face activity. Any face to face activity will come with a degree of risk during this pandemic.

If you don’t wish to work in teaching at the moment you should find something else for a while but please don’t expect sympathy from the majority of the population who pay your wages, nor expect to hide away and receive a 100% handout paid for by the future taxes of the children you don’t wish to teach, whose futures are apparently expendable.

Other countries are managing at least some on line learning perfectly well.

It makes a lot of sense with infectious disease running through the community.

Teachers were working all through the summer you know.

Not sure where a lot of the stuff comes from in the last paragraph, seems a bit beside the point.

@AbbyAbal ”And no, I don’t really care about people leaving the teaching profession because teachers aren’t on par with doctors, scientists or engineers in their need for experience. It’s a mid level job which many people could do.”

Who do you think helped people access these careers that you deem so much more important than teaching?! I don’t think any teacher puts them self in the same category as a doctor but I strongly disagree that ‘many people could do it’, certainly not well and especially not in some of the country’s more challenging schools.

The moment my DC went back to school, I knew our risk catching the virus has increased massively. The kids will eventually bring it home, I've just resigned myself to this fact. It's the same for families with DC at schools all over the country. And on top of it, many families have the added pressure of heavily reduced wages should they have to isolate because of DC catching it at school...

^This, teachers are not in a unique position ... we all face the risk of catching it through bad luck or un-responsible 3rd party.