That’s not necessarily the case.
I’m not the first user to do this and I won’t be the last. But this value is repeated. Because, for many ordinary citizens, this issue of reopening schools during a pandemic would possibly seem like an entirely new adventure, yet for educators, it’s a new arrangement of a song they’ve heard many times before.
In a universe of exchange, political leaders, other high-level people as governors and even the president, came down last winter, or even last spring, and communicated for a long time about schools amid a pandemic.
“Schools are essential,” someone says. “Workers who keep the economy running smoothly will have to be released to return to work. Beyond that, we cannot tolerate under our supervision a generation of young people who receive a small percentage of the education to which they are entitled. “We will,” elected leaders say, “whatever is necessary, will come with all the obligatory resources.” We’ll gather an organization of scientists and teachers on the blue ribbon and they’ll do what it takes to make public school paintings safely again, and we’ll take their recommendations and make them a reality.
In this universe of exchange, the Secretary of Education pushes, deceives, humiliates, and intimidates Congress to authorize mandatory resources. “Not only that,” the secretary (and some other leaders) says, “but if we ask public school teachers to be frontline troops in this critical battle, we’ll make sure they take care of them. Leaders say, “This can’t be done safely.” We would do more to reallocate billions of dollars to the training, generation, and infrastructure needed to bring American education to distance education. It will be expensive and difficult, but at least it will allow them to save money to other people and teach students ».
But it’s a universe of choice.
In this universe, he’s the same old man. Beautiful rhetoric about the importance of education, the heroics of teachers. And that’s it. Reflections, prayers and resentment because we are already spending too much on public education. We’ve been here before.
We have a national mandate to provide a flexible and adequate education for each and every student, regardless of the barriers the student would possibly face; however, Congress never budgeted the mandate.
We continually “discover” that non-rich and non-white communities are neglected through schools that lack good enough resources, yet no one has ever shown the will to get the resources they want from those schools.
We claim a “crisis” in “failed” schools in the United States, and every time teachers are ashamed because they know who’s going to happen to: teachers. Teachers deserve to be smarter. Teachers deserve higher expectations. Teachers are protected by their bad unions.
School shootings are alarming the public, who once returned expressing admiration for the heroic teachers. The federal government has even set up a working group, led by the Ministry of Education, to discuss what can be done. His counsel to protect the scholars and teachers? Arming teachers.
When Congress tries to run the aid budget for schools facing the pandemic, the same education secretary is not struggling for more for schools, but is looking for tactics to use the budget for her favorite reasons in private schools. Meanwhile, management has spent more on “saving” a single airline than in the entire child care sector.
Meanwhile, the official position of management turns out to be that there is no challenge and, if there is, local schools will manage it in one way or another.
It is true that there are no smart answers to the reopening of schools in the fall. It is also true that there are no reasonable answers to the reopening of schools this fall. But that’s a little true, every fall, and teachers are encouraged each and every year to come and do the most productive anyway.
It’s the song all the teachers know. “You’re doing a wonderful and vital job, but we’re already spending too much for you, so don’t expect any more help to come up.” (Of course, it’s not about how much you spend, but how you spend it, however, it’s some other verbal exchange that we don’t have.) And then the next chorus is: “You are wonderful heroes, and in fact we appreciate your love for young people – and if you love them, you would probably no longer ask for anything from us. Listening to the rhetoric, we would conclude that there is nothing more vital to this country than the schooling of our young people; practicing the movements of politicians and bureaucrats, it could be concluded that schooling is a small reflection and political football.
The reopening of schools during a pandemic is only new to the degree of severity. For a teacher, this is all too familiar. It replaces the deflated tire on a bus full of children, in the rain, and hungry. A big, bright Lexus stops by your side and a politician or bureaucrat knocks down the window and shouts, “Wow, that sounds tough. I appreciate your hard work and your dedication. Ask if you can make a phone call to ask for help. or faints and lends a hand, but he doesn’t seem to hear it. “Well, hey, good luck, ” he said, turning the window. “I’m sure it’s all paint.”
That wasn’t necessarily the case. That’s not the case yet. Educators would like to hear more than just this old family song. But they can’t wait; The flat tire may not change.
I spent 39 years as an English teacher in a high school, researching how new reform policies work in the classroom.