Tough sh!t. I don't like walking through airports and riding on planes wearing a mask. Airport shuttle buses suck and I increase my risk of contracting the virus by staying in hotels, eating in restaurants, and going to the customer's place of business where I meet and interact with random people.
I do this because it's the only way I can create value for my employer. I can't do that sitting at home in front of a computer. The quality of the product I produce just isn't very good that way. It's not unlike educating my children from a Zoom conference where the teacher "teaches" for 30 minutes, and then throws a bunch of crap onto Canvas for homework where my students either teach themselves or a parent does the teaching. Remote learning produces a crap product and no amount of lipstick you slather on it will make that pig purdy.
When we compare the plight of the private sector to that of the teacher, the teachers lecture us that we should find someone to take care of our kids while we're busy at work so they get full value from remote instruction. If not, we should find other work that will allow us to stay home so they can remain safe. I guess I should learn to code. The vast majority of teachers have no clue how their paycheck and stellar benefits come to them. They have no idea that a healthy public sector cannot exist without a robust private sector. All they know is that the public education system exists to serve them. Screw them.
“All they know is that the public education system exists to serve them. Screw them.”
Hey Mase, don’t sugar-coat it. . . tell us what you really think of teachers!! LOL
I agree with you—but here in CA, teachers are the single largest voting block and the teachers’ unions are the single largest contributor to Gavin Newsom, who is not up for re-election until 2023 I think.
Newsom has zero incentive to reopen classrooms even though remote education is indeed a crap product because CA simply does not prioritize children or education. Period.
I know it is my fault for choosing to live in a tyrannical one party state but it never really strongly affected me (I’ve lived here on and off since I was a child in 1970) until now.
I’m considering a 3 year temporary move to a more free state so my teen daughter can get an in person education—I could rent out my house here and then rent out a different one in a red state. The problem is—after all that upheaval—I can’t really find a state that will “guarantee” in person education, even private.