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Every time I think I make progress in building my classes in Canvas, I find a new way I totally fucked it up. Broken links, lost files, lost progress. I don& #39;t even have the language to ask the questions I need answered. We are being set up to fail.
I make it a point not to work when I& #39;m not being paid. I am a "work the contract" kind of worker. If you want my time, pay me. But in order to even attempt to do the job I am an EXPERT at doing, I have no choice but to work additional off the clock hours. So here I am.
I don& #39;t know how to build websites. I went to school for history and anthropology. I trained to be a teacher. I am a teacher. I& #39;m already asked to do so much more than I am trained or paid to do, but y& #39;all this is beyond excessive. Public school teachers are so fucked rn.
The worst part is, after we stumble, fail, and fall, we will eventually eek out some semblance of success and THAT will be pointed to and used to rationalize making this kind of behavior by school districts and local government normal. Just another way to put more on our plates.
Give me a room full of kids and I can teach them anything you want and make them feel loved and valued. Give me an online room and I can do the same. But we are literally being asked to basically build websites for each of our individual classes.
I have years of lessons and plans that are useless now. I need to rewrite everything and somehow translate it into a new HTML language that I was not adequately trained to use. I& #39;m a "young" teacher, I& #39;m generally tech savvy, and I am absolutely and completely lost.
Not to mention that we are literally walking into a public health catastrophe with almost no serious attempt at making our workplace safe for us or the community. Teachers are not exaggerating, every aspect of reopening is an absolute joke and these reopening plans are a farce.
When I got tested for Covid the other day, the nurse was literally speechless when I told her the district doesn& #39;t require a negative test, or any test at all, to return to work. She was certain that I was mistaken. I tested negative by the way, but let& #39;s see how long that lasts.
But don& #39;t worry, "we& #39;re going to get through this" and "we& #39;ll make it work" in this "fluid" situation during "unprecedented times". Maybe we& #39;ll "circle back" to truly thought out and well prepared safety procedures when staff and students start dying. But probably not.
Anyway, time to get back to giving my school district free labor so I can keep the privilege of teaching in a dangerous workplace that doesn& #39;t value the health and safety of our community in order to keep my health insurance during a deadly pandemic 
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