Somehow, it is teachers who are held responsible—more than government failures or even COVID-19 itself—for pandemic-era school closures.
workers, who are disproportionately women and people of color. Unlike many essential workers, however, teachers have a union, and all the possibilities of self-determination that go with it. They have been able to insist on different conditions for their work, and to force negotiations over those conditions. As a country, we have grown less used to such conflicts.
The United States, in the twenty-first century, is not good at providing public services, or at acknowledging the diversity of the needs of its public. There are teachers and children whose loved ones endured awful, solitary deaths in the firstwaves, who are traumatized by those memories and who are not reassured by reports that Omicron is a mostly harmless variant. There are teachers and children who are immunocompromised, or who live with immunocompromised people, with similar misgivings.
—mentally, emotionally, and physically—by the apparently intractable “reality” of school understaffing, which forces them to teach enormous groups of children, or outside their specialty areas, or all day without a break, as their colleagues recover fromI am the single parent of a seven-year-old and a four-year-old. Like most children, they are not temperamentally well suited to six hours a day of watching YouTube and muting themselves on Zoom.
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