Let's clear the misinformation.
Teachers fully understand the importance of school for children and teens and we want to teach students in classrooms, face-to-face.
What we don't want is to risk our lives in order to do our jobs. 1/
Teachers fully understand the importance of school for children and teens and we want to teach students in classrooms, face-to-face.
What we don't want is to risk our lives in order to do our jobs. 1/
No teacher dies from a flu they caught from school. No teacher has died from being around students who have measles or mumps.
Covid-19 is not in the same category as the flu as we've been told for months so please don't tell us something different now. 2/
Covid-19 is not in the same category as the flu as we've been told for months so please don't tell us something different now. 2/
3/ The reason teachers, VPs & Principals have concerns about the plan is because we're the adults who actually spend time with kids in schools. We're not pontificating about the importance of schools from an air-conditioned office while relying on decades old memories of school.
4/ We adapted to Emergency Remote Teaching in the spring. We need time to prepare for Blended Learning in the fall. We have not said that we are against a combination of online and face-to-face learning. We have said we don't want to double our workload.
5/IT'S INFURIATING TO LISTEN TO LECTURES ON THE IMPORTANCE OF SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS MENTAL HEALTH WHEN WE EACH PERSONALLY KNOW DOZENS OF STUDENTS WHO HAVE SUFFERED BECAUSE OF A LACK OF PSYCHOLOGISTS AND COUNSELLORS IN SCHOOLS FOR DECADES.
6/ It's infuriating to hear about schools being important for students' health as long as Adopt-A-School has to exist to provide for schools what governments fail to .
7/ It's infuriating to continue to be ignored when we voice our concerns based on our professional experience and knowledge. We're treated as though we are idiots when many of us have Masters' degrees and decades of experience in classrooms.
8/ We are being gaslit at a time when our skills should be utilized in order to create the safest situation for students.
The least effective way to ensure students' social and emotional health is to create distress in their teachers by ignoring our valid concerns.
The least effective way to ensure students' social and emotional health is to create distress in their teachers by ignoring our valid concerns.
9/ Stop gaslighting teachers.
Stop gaslighting teachers.
Stop gaslighting teachers
#bced #bcpoli #bctf #RestartDisasterPlan
Stop gaslighting teachers.
Stop gaslighting teachers
#bced #bcpoli #bctf #RestartDisasterPlan
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