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How do you feel about coming back to work?

I wonder how fellow teachers who have already come back to work or about to feel about it.

Here students will come back to school on September 10th. It looks like in order to make smaller groups, secondary students will go one day to class and take online lessons the next day (not the best way to do it in my opinion, doing it in a weekly basis would have been better).

We do not anything yet about disinfection, ventilation (a very important yet often neglected point), how kids will move inside school, how recess will be, if all students (there are more than one thousand where I teach) will enter and leave school at the same time 🤯, what will happen if a student or teacher is tested positive or has Covid symptoms. We do not either if students or teachers will be tested either. Or whether students, and from what age, will have to wear masks.

I am not scared. There is a risk, but living is taking risks. I am angry. Angry at the stupid policians who wasted the whole summer not thinking about it, and will take hurried decisions these days. Angry at how often they say 'there is no money to hire new teachers'. Angry at how little education matters.
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novembermoon · 51-55
I hope you keep yourself safe. Isn’t it the job of leaders to look ahead and make plans? It sucks to have to wait for instructions and then these people hastily put together something that they have not thought through thoroughly.
It is not fair for both teachers and students.
Cierzo · M
@novembermoon Keeping safe and sane will be my main concern on the following days.

We don't have leaders. We have very mediocre politicians who took that road as an easy way to get money and privileges, letting aside any trace of ethics and dignity,because they know they lack the intelligence, charactee and qualifications for any job that is slightly demanding.

The great mystery for me is why they are still followed and believed. Media make miracles.
novembermoon · 51-55
Understand. It is how they manage people’s perception of them, and in that, the media has a huge role.@Cierzo
Cierzo · M
@novembermoon It is all about managing perceptions. They had the whole summer to think of realistic measures for the new schoolyear. They could have opened some inbox to get teachers' suggestions (haha). Instead, they did not give up on their holidays, and will improvise some last minute measures to try to keep parents (they do not give a damn about teachers) calm. The sad thing is that many will buy it.
Elessar · 26-30, M
@Cierzo
We don't have leaders. We have very mediocre politicians who took that road as an easy way to get money and privileges, letting aside any trace of ethics and dignity,because they know they lack the intelligence, charactee and qualifications for any job that is slightly demanding.
This synthesises pretty much the entire political spectrum, I guess globally, with the exception of a few individuals who in other times would be seen as fine politicians, and these days look like statesmen compared to the baseline. Those who don't work against their own population at least.

The great mystery for me is why they are still followed and believed. Media make miracles.
My guess is that it's simply because they perfectly reflect the electorate. Ignorance and selfishness is diffused in the general population in more of less the same proportions that you can infer from electoral polls. The average person if had a chance would do exactly the same, those are there because they've managed to become the elite, not because they haven't found anything better to do.
Elessar · 26-30, M
@Cierzo p.s. Another fact, if we want to try to see more positively and not imply that the 70% of people are helpless political wh*res, is that a non quantifiable portion of the population doesn't feel represented. And end up not voting, voting for the perceived "less disastrous" choice, or rarely founding movements/parties that initially even start well but eventually rot and become part of the problem (you probably heard of our "M5S")
Cierzo · M
@Elessar I belong in that group. Those parties or movements act like vaccines. You vote one of them thinking it is different, until you are proven wrong, and you end up not voting again.
Elessar · 26-30, M
@Cierzo They give you neutralizing immunity from the intention to vote 😅