Skip to content
  • Categories
  • Recent
  • Tags
  • Popular
  • Users
  • Groups
Skins
  • Light
  • Cerulean
  • Cosmo
  • Flatly
  • Journal
  • Litera
  • Lumen
  • Lux
  • Materia
  • Minty
  • Morph
  • Pulse
  • Sandstone
  • Simplex
  • Sketchy
  • Spacelab
  • United
  • Yeti
  • Zephyr
  • Dark
  • Cyborg
  • Darkly
  • Quartz
  • Slate
  • Solar
  • Superhero
  • Vapor

  • Default (No Skin)
  • No Skin
Collapse

The New Coffee Room

  1. TNCR
  2. General Discussion
  3. Our School Reopening Plans

Our School Reopening Plans

Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved General Discussion
76 Posts 17 Posters 795 Views
  • Oldest to Newest
  • Newest to Oldest
  • Most Votes
Reply
  • Reply as topic
Log in to reply
This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
  • OptimisticO Optimistic

    That being said, I do feel like I need to add that I´m not trying to drum up any sympathy. I love my job, I love my workplace, and I´m even a little excited at the opportunity to get the training (at my school´s expense) to build my skills. But like 89th said, even when the final product is not as good as it would be under normal conditions, and even when it looks like "canned" plans and like not much effort went into it, more likely than not a lot of effort did go into figuring out how to reach the students and how to teach the students and how to maintain those relationships from a distance.

    Aqua LetiferA Offline
    Aqua LetiferA Offline
    Aqua Letifer
    wrote on last edited by
    #35

    @Optimistic said in Our School Reopening Plans:

    That being said, I do feel like I need to add that I´m not trying to drum up any sympathy. I love my job, I love my workplace, and I´m even a little excited at the opportunity to get the training (at my school´s expense) to build my skills. But like 89th said, even when the final product is not as good as it would be under normal conditions, and even when it looks like "canned" plans and like not much effort went into it, more likely than not a lot of effort did go into figuring out how to reach the students and how to teach the students and how to maintain those relationships from a distance.

    A couple of my interwebs friends are teachers. Without a doubt, their situation is asstastic. School's open? Okay, how do they not get COVID? School's not open? Okay, prepare for more work, not less, and a mountain of hangups as everyone gets used to that kind of learning environment.

    What makes me feel a little better about all this is that the entire working world is in some type of difficult situation; everyone's dealing with this, one way or another. Means there's a lot more incentive for understanding and flexibility. Bad management can't claim ignorance about he pandemic.

    Please love yourself.

    1 Reply Last reply
    • AxtremusA Offline
      AxtremusA Offline
      Axtremus
      wrote on last edited by
      #36

      @Optimistic sorry if I missed it ... are you a teacher now?
      That’s cool! May I ask what grade levels or subjects do you teach?

      OptimisticO 1 Reply Last reply
      • 89th8 89th

        Keep up the good hard work @Optimistic !!

        taiwan_girlT Offline
        taiwan_girlT Offline
        taiwan_girl
        wrote on last edited by
        #37

        @89th said in Our School Reopening Plans:

        Keep up the good hard work @Optimistic !!

        Agree!!!!!!

        1 Reply Last reply
        • AxtremusA Axtremus

          @Optimistic sorry if I missed it ... are you a teacher now?
          That’s cool! May I ask what grade levels or subjects do you teach?

          OptimisticO Offline
          OptimisticO Offline
          Optimistic
          wrote on last edited by
          #38

          @Axtremus I´ve been teaching Spanish (and French the past few years) in middle school; just finished my 7th year 🙂

          1 Reply Last reply
          • jon-nycJ Offline
            jon-nycJ Offline
            jon-nyc
            wrote on last edited by
            #39

            C460CD81-F0B7-4F44-91E4-559336CC1A9B.jpeg

            Only non-witches get due process.

            • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
            1 Reply Last reply
            • 89th8 Offline
              89th8 Offline
              89th
              wrote on last edited by
              #40

              Ok that made me LUL

              1 Reply Last reply
              • jon-nycJ Offline
                jon-nycJ Offline
                jon-nyc
                wrote on last edited by
                #41

                Did you hear it in Homer’s voice?

                Only non-witches get due process.

                • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
                1 Reply Last reply
                • 89th8 Offline
                  89th8 Offline
                  89th
                  wrote on last edited by
                  #42

                  1000000% if such a percentage was possible.

                  1 Reply Last reply
                  • 89th8 Offline
                    89th8 Offline
                    89th
                    wrote on last edited by
                    #43

                    In fact, after I saw it I thought "why did I just say that in Homer's voice in my head?"

                    1 Reply Last reply
                    • George KG Offline
                      George KG Offline
                      George K
                      wrote on last edited by
                      #44

                      Seen on FB - don't know if it's true, but LA public schools have a good safety plan proposed:

                      alt text

                      "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                      The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

                      brendaB 1 Reply Last reply
                      • Aqua LetiferA Offline
                        Aqua LetiferA Offline
                        Aqua Letifer
                        wrote on last edited by
                        #45

                        I sense a political motive as poorly masked as the populace.

                        Please love yourself.

                        1 Reply Last reply
                        • CopperC Offline
                          CopperC Offline
                          Copper
                          wrote on last edited by Copper
                          #46

                          It looks accurate

                          OMG

                          This from 10 days ago

                          The Los Angeles Teacher’s Union is one of the largest in the state, and the “United Teachers Los Angeles” say public schools should not reopen unless their demands are met.

                          Their demands include implementing a moratorium on private schools, defunding the police, increasing taxes on the wealthy, implementing Medicare for all, and passing the HEROES Act, which allocated and additional $116 billion in federal education funding to the states.

                          The unions demands also took aim at charter schools.

                          https://www.kusi.com/a-los-angeles-teachers-union-says-public-schools-should-not-reopen-unless-their-demands-are-met/#:~:text=Their demands include implementing a,education funding to the states.

                          1 Reply Last reply
                          • George KG George K

                            Seen on FB - don't know if it's true, but LA public schools have a good safety plan proposed:

                            alt text

                            brendaB Offline
                            brendaB Offline
                            brenda
                            wrote on last edited by
                            #47

                            @George-K

                            I just found five or six news sources reporting about this list. They seem to think it's real.

                            1 Reply Last reply
                            • jon-nycJ Offline
                              jon-nycJ Offline
                              jon-nyc
                              wrote on last edited by
                              #48

                              The comment.

                              C804787B-F19B-4B7D-922F-1BB6EB6FF048.jpeg

                              Only non-witches get due process.

                              • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
                              1 Reply Last reply
                              • 89th8 Offline
                                89th8 Offline
                                89th
                                wrote on last edited by
                                #49

                                😂

                                1 Reply Last reply
                                • LuFins DadL Offline
                                  LuFins DadL Offline
                                  LuFins Dad
                                  wrote on last edited by
                                  #50

                                  That is too funny! M&M’s is still pissed that they don’t teach cursive anymore.

                                  The Brad

                                  AxtremusA 1 Reply Last reply
                                  • jon-nycJ Offline
                                    jon-nycJ Offline
                                    jon-nyc
                                    wrote on last edited by
                                    #51

                                    FWIW, they taught my son cursive here, just a couple years ago

                                    Only non-witches get due process.

                                    • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
                                    1 Reply Last reply
                                    • LuFins DadL LuFins Dad

                                      That is too funny! M&M’s is still pissed that they don’t teach cursive anymore.

                                      AxtremusA Offline
                                      AxtremusA Offline
                                      Axtremus
                                      wrote on last edited by
                                      #52

                                      @LuFins-Dad said in Our School Reopening Plans:

                                      That is too funny! M&M’s is still pissed that they don’t teach cursive anymore.

                                      The way our civilization has advanced, two-thumb typing is way more important then cursive writing anyway. Do they still offer typing class? Have the adapted it to focus on two-thumb typing?

                                      1 Reply Last reply
                                      • jon-nycJ Offline
                                        jon-nycJ Offline
                                        jon-nyc
                                        wrote on last edited by
                                        #53

                                        So what, specifically, is the plan when a teacher gets Covid? How about students? Food handlers?

                                        It would be interesting to know how many schools simply haven’t figured it out yet.

                                        https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/28/opinion/coronavirus-schools-reopening.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytopinion

                                        Only non-witches get due process.

                                        • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
                                        KincaidK 1 Reply Last reply
                                        • MikM Offline
                                          MikM Offline
                                          Mik
                                          wrote on last edited by
                                          #54

                                          This might be the most accurate thing I have seen on the subject.

                                          alt text

                                          “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

                                          1 Reply Last reply
                                          Reply
                                          • Reply as topic
                                          Log in to reply
                                          • Oldest to Newest
                                          • Newest to Oldest
                                          • Most Votes


                                          • Login

                                          • Don't have an account? Register

                                          • Login or register to search.
                                          • First post
                                            Last post
                                          0
                                          • Categories
                                          • Recent
                                          • Tags
                                          • Popular
                                          • Users
                                          • Groups