Reading comprehension? I said in original post that I wanted schools to open.
I don't have to agree with teachers to empathize them.
Also, if teachers, en masse in certain districts, don't agree to come back to the classrooms, what alternative do you propose? Fire them all and replace them with exactly who?
I don't get the hate for teachers when its most often the administrators, bureaucrats and superintendents who are the ones who are really failing. Its pathetic, but not unpredictable, that businesses have found ways to safely reopen doors but thousands of professional school administrators have had basically had four months and still don't have workable plans in a lot of places. I'm not saying that is easy, but it is truly the one job now.
Where I strongly disagree with many, including some teachers, is the idea that online schooling is any sort of legitimate replacement for in person. I vary from hysterically laughing to eye-rolling when I read administrators say they are going to "deliver a dynamic virtual educational experience." I can't believe they don't choke on the combination of buzzwords and bulls&!t in that statement. Its absurd.
As for us, if the schools here don't open and our private school does, we are officially done with the public schools not because we hate them, but because they simply are failing to deliver on the basic mission. I'll be more disappointed than angry.
And I don't blame the teachers for that.