[quote Zolrets]@Woolff I am not complaining about my everyday life! The problem is being asked to do two things at once. Imagine that you are teaching a class and someone asks you to teach another class in a different subject at the same time. Now imagine that you are told it’s for an hour because it’s an emergency so you think ok, I’ll do that. Then the hour becomes a day then a week then a month. Your energy is continually sapped, your patience is wearing thin - that’s the issue, as well as the 1.5 hours that I spend on extra tasks directly relating to the process of home schooling. As my child’s day is time bound and my day is too, we can’t unilaterally decide to do one or the other. Everything is diluted down so there is no end, no beginning, just a continuous expanse of stress and half completed tasks.
And yes, I can see the teacher is working hard - hence me engaging as well as I can even though I’m exhausted and stressed and angry at the parents who don’t have to give any thought to this and have no appreciation of what the last months and year have been like for those at home. I don’t think that last point makes me a bad person, it makes me human. They probably, like you, think it’s not actually that bad, though it is bad enough for them not to want to engage with it at all on the flimsiest of premises. The load borne is not equal and failure to recognise that makes it feel so much worse.
But, to the COVID point, I am increasingly perplexed as to how my child being at home is critical to the health of the nation as opposed to the other 15 kids in his class who are in school and wrap around care. I strongly suspect that Monday will see an announcement of infants returning in England so that will leave 30% of kids excluded from the education system and the logic will be even more warped. It’s massively unfair and I would like to see a rota of some sort.[/quote]
Imagine that you are teaching a class...
We are. We're looking after many children in the school building and helping them with their learning AND teaching our own classes, out of which, the majority are at home.
We were doing it last term when groups were sent home to isolate - teaching them, from afar and teaching our own classes.
We can't choose one or the other either, which is why we're looking after so many kids while trying to do our jobs. My 'remote' version of my job could just include me sitting at a computer and delivering my lesson to my class, but I'm doing it with 13 children (of different ages) to be physically responsible for too, not just 1 like you.
It's harder than normal. But it's also tough.
You keep mentioning percentages...we couldn't have 100% in the building and do what the coubtry have achieved since January. So some need to stay at home. You've been judged, rightly or wrongly (not my call) as not to he critical to the fight against Covid 19, so your job has been treated as less essential, and your child is at home. That's not an argument, and I doubt it would be yours if your child was one of the 'chosen few' in school, for everyone back at once.
A rota would be great. But this government seem to be all or nothing (except critical worker/vulnerable).