Monday, April 5, 2021

Teachers In Migrant Camps Reveal Just How Much Public Schools Have Become Foster Care

For teachers who have returned to the classroom, much of their work has moved online and many don't see students in person, or see them in person often.

While their children languish at home staring at a screen, children in migrant shelters have a physically present teacher.

For decades now, what public school teachers actually do has been an open question.

Each year as teachers complete their in-service training, their presumed roles will be different.

If any parent complained that teachers were not working, teachers could reply that, by their own standards, they were "Working." After all, most parents went along with this logic before.

These days, because health concerns have overruled every other concern, teachers are primarily enforcers of social distancing, masking, and quarantining - and soon, vaccinations.

Speaking as a teacher, it doesn't surprise me that some teachers in San Diego are willing to work with migrant children.

https://thefederalist.com/2021/04/05/teachers-in-migrant-camps-reveal-just-how-much-public-schools-have-become-foster-care/ 

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