COVID-19 devastated U.S. teacher morale − and it hasn’t recovered

This is what people wanted and this is what you got from the worldwide response to Covid. As well as the general public having to pay for the lockdowns.

This is what people wanted and this is what you got from the worldwide response to Covid. As well as the general public having to pay for the lockdowns.

How about reading the article? it is explained clearly that measures were a relief for teachers that were expected to do their jobs without any knowledge of how to address the pandemic and expect them to assume the responsibility of anything it happened.

As long as a measure is reasonable (even with limited information) and can be expected to reduce the huge burden of covid, then negative consequences are a product of the pandemic, not the efforts made to contain it. Specially when the measures are demonstrated effective.

Virusrex

I read the article and made my comment.

The main burdens of Covid were caused by making kiddies stay at home and healthy people who were unlikely to suffer serious illness from Covid. The mental health issues caused by these decisions are huge especially with the children. Add to that the cost still being paid for and so many other things like hugely increased DV reports, I agree, it all went swimmingly.

Those experts know their stuff.

I read the article and made my comment.

Yet your point is contradicted explicitly, that can be explained by either not reading it so you made a mistake, or by willingly misrepresenting it to mislead other people,

The main burdens of Covid were caused by making kiddies stay at home and healthy people who were unlikely to suffer serious illness from Covid.

Still as false as every time you repeat this, you have never been able to support this claim with the opinion of any respected institution of health. The benefits from the measures were much bigger than the costs, and just claiming the opposite without any evidence is not an argument, is an excuse.

 The mental health issues caused by these decisions are huge especially with the children.

So mental health issues were observed on every country where classes were suspended right? that would be false. And in the US the heaviest problems happened when children were at home and solved when they were forced to go back to school? O right, it was the opposite. That clearly shows what is the actual problem, and solutions that limited the huge damage of covid was not it.

Virus

Yes, mental health issues increased as well as obesity and domestic violence and an increase in young people of long term depression.

‘You don’t consider the facts do you. The biggest problems were caused by the policies and the mindsets.

Do you ever read the actual data or just push a pro science agenda that bears little resemblance to what occurred?

Many things I mention during the pandemic which you poo pooed in your usual style, all proved correct.

Heres a couple, deaths are miniscule to non obese with pre conditions and non seniors. Omicron is much less deadly than previous variants discovered by South Africa who have excellent data recording.

This is what people wanted and this is what you got from the worldwide response to Covid. As well as the general public having to pay for the lockdowns.

Very true.

Yes, mental health issues increased as well as obesity and domestic violence and an increase in young people of long term depression.

It is quite telling that you make the claims without any reference, again when were children more affected? when they were out of the school or when they were forced to go back? that fact alone destroys your claims completely, not to mention that this did not happen all over the world where similar measures were enacted. If anything this helps showing how you yourself understand your claims are easily disproved so your only exit is to repeat them as if that had any meaning.

‘You don’t consider the facts do you. The biggest problems were caused by the policies and the mindsets.

Do you ever read the actual data or just push a pro science agenda that bears little resemblance to what occurred?

Sorry but that applies much more to you, that think professionals whose only job is to examine epidemiologically all data that is pertinent somehow understand less of it than you, that have opinions based solely on not understanding the issues and misrepresenting articles to mislead people.

Again, which respected institution of medical science support your personal claims? none? that means the evidence is not on your side.

Heres a couple, deaths are miniscule to non obese with pre conditions and non seniors

Again, bring medical institutions that say covid is not a problem worth attention on the general public, the fact that you have repeatedly been unable to do that proves the actual experts contradict your personal beliefs. Covid is still a serious health problem even if you want to convince others of the contrary. That is deeply irresponsible and immoral.

Very true.

As proved, completely false. I mean, you could not even coume up with any argument to defend the claims.

Teachers were already unhappy before the pandemic, but the public’s reaction to the education their kids got during that crisis continues to haunt the profession.

Especially in the US, the public is ever increasingly unhappy about what they are teaching their kids. And many of the teachers are likely also increasingly unhappy about what they are forced to teach their students.

This reads like an article from a couple of years ago. Hybrid/Zoom teaching placed greater demands on teachers and failed a majority of pupils. But Covid is treated like flu now in the UK and most countries. Here, teachers are suffering from unstable RAAC concrete closing classrooms and financial issues created by Brexit and the consequent decline of Sterling. There has also been a surge in special needs requirements as clinicians reclassify what where regarded as personality traits as neurological disorders. Educational resources were never designed to personalise education to that extent, and there was not enough funding for what was delivered, never mind what is now demanded. Staff shortages and fiscal collapse in UK local government are also hammering educational opportunities and resources (local swimming pools closing, pupil transport support ending etc), whilst the hyper inflation caused by a downgraded currency has hit all the lower waged - including many teachers - hard.

The teaching profession in the US may stick out a bit, as it is particularly affected by the culture wars. Elsewhere in the US, the economy (and the dollar) are holding up well, so outside teaching, general pressures are lower. The culture wars are less of an issue outside the states, and teachers are just suffering along with everyone else. But there have been some demos, mainly from parents with restrictive religious beliefs. And for older teachers, enforced ['woke'] changes in teaching content and public language use may be the extra push that makes early retirement seem like a plan. Better than being recorded on a phone saying the wrong thing, being publicly demonised and kicked out. Culture wars reduce the available labour pool by excluding sections of society.

Most teachers nowadays are also concerned about a decline in behaviour (verbal and physical attacks) - the 'short fuse' or 'anger spike' that came with Covid restrictions and lockdown, and has been kept alive by a degrading economy and government policies impacting peoples' lives in a negative way.

Would you want to become a teacher, and deal with all that?

Especially in the US, the public is ever increasingly unhappy about what they are teaching their kids.

Unfortunately that is because a segment of the public feels children need to be taught false things and hide historic fact so they can feel better. This of course have a demonstrable negative effect on education as compared with other countries.

And many of the teachers are likely also increasingly unhappy about what they are forced to teach their students.

Yes, precisely because of irrational demands from parents that are reflected in objectively negative standards being implemented to accommodate them.

Very true.

I am so glad I didn't that whatever it is in that thing. Pheew..dodged a bullet right there.

The story is "COVID-19 devastated U.S. teacher morale − and it hasn’t recovered" not the Covid-19 vaccinations. More than one million Americans died from Covoid including teachers.

The hit to morale was not from COVID itself, but from the debacle that was the public health response.

The contrast to Japan is telling. Is Japan facing a teaching labor shortage because of COVID? No. Unlike the U.S., Japan didn’t keep kids out of school and in those futile Zoom lessons for over a year. Did thousands more people die in Japan because kids went to school? No. Kids and teachers alike are better off for having been in school.

Japan didn’t keep kids out of school and in those futile Zoom lessons for over a year.

The difference was that the population in general was much more receptive to many other measures like vaccination and masking, so there was not NEED of keeping kids out of school so long. The response in the US was much less cooperative so there was need to make things obligatory.

Pretending the reason why something happened is the consequence is an obvious logical problem, in the same league as thinking hospitals are the cause of more deaths since you find many of those deaths happen there.

According to your theory students would have better mental health after they returned to school compared with the period when they had to remain at home right? The reality is the opposite.

https://abc7ny.com/covid-pandemic-teen-suicide-rates/13526479/

A new study found that teen suicide rates in the U.S. dipped when schools closed in the spring of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic but spiked back up in 2021 when in-person classes resumed.

This clearly shows how the problem is not that schools had to close during covid (and that actually ameliorated it) the problem, as the article you are commenting also explains, was the lack of support for teachers that complicated a situation that was already dire before and continue to be so.

Had the worlds leaders handed COVID seriously from the beginning, Covid would’ve been eradicated in less than 6 months.!. A complete shutdown of the world economy and complete lockdown of every border would have stopped the spread.!. The problem was the response and the utter selfishness of too many science denying lunatics that couldn’t have cared less about others ! Particularly the most venerable, children and seniors and blaming others with health issues for having negative outcomes!

Steven

Erm, that policy didn’t and doesn’t work my friend. You can’t get rid of it. You can’t close everything down, people need to eat, transportation needs to run etc.