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Yeah... no. This is a terrible piece and plays on about every single trope about teachers there is. (h/t @mrsjjee) https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status/1290671765090443264">https://twitter.com/TheAtlant...
Questions I wonder as a reader/editor: Obligation to whom? Clerks in grocery stores deal primarily with adults, who can be asked to leave a place of business. Teachers deal primarily with children, who cannot be asked to leave for picking their nose.
This is an interesting* rhetorical device on her part. She puts the words about her courage in her husband& #39;s mouth. It& #39;s her piece, his veiled accusation that teachers who don& #39;t work are letting students down.
*evasive, weak
*evasive, weak
Boy howdy. Hopefully, it& #39;ll change. But FYI, teachers. If it doesn& #39;t change, it& #39;s your fault. (Gotta love the use of a short emphatic sentence at the end of this graph.)
This is about offering empathy to teachers. And it& #39;s a powerful point - she knows how scary it all is But "hospital" is the key word - working in a hospital is not the same as working in a school.
See... here& #39;s a thing about referring to a job as a "calling." If an individual wants to claim they were called to do a job, have at it. They& #39;re speaking to their experience. But what an individual cannot do is claim everyone else in that profession was likewise called.
Unless you& #39;re a nun. Or otherwise work in a religious vocation where serving a "calling" has a shared linguistic and social meaning.
But that& #39;s what she& #39;s (rhetorically) trying to do here. She was called and thinks teachers were, too. This positions teachers as committing a moral and social failing if they do not go to work during a pandemic.
The piece is terrible not because of the author - for whom I have a great deal of empathy and compassion - but because it was published. It sets up teachers for scorn, not support. (See also: Goldstein& #39;s THE TEACHER WARS. http://www.danagoldstein.com/thebook )">https://www.danagoldstein.com/thebook&q...
*cracks knuckles*
A point that& #39;s worth raising in any response is that, yes - store clerks went to work. And many of them got sick and died. #PairedTexts
