1/ Fines and license suspension are the type of penalties teachers can face if they break their contract. With coronavirus and the return to school, some teachers are feeling trapped by these contracts and worried for their health and safety.https://bit.ly/2R0UIVS
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2/ Karen Oliver quit in July. Her district returned to in-person learning. At 61, it was a risk she couldn't take. She was fined 3% of her salary. The school board refused to waive the fees. "Nobody was considering the fact that teachers were people."https://bit.ly/2R0UIVS
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@ChabeliH reports, this year has exposed so much of what already made the teaching profession, which employs 4.2 million women in the U.S., challenging.
Devalued work, the question of school security was already looming, and now coronavirus.https://bit.ly/2R0UIVS 2 replies 3 retweets 10 likesShow this thread
4/4 "The lack of respect for teachers, the lack of standards across the board in terms of pay, expectations — it's very hard to recruit teachers, and now because of this, I think it's going to be even harder. This is gonna sort of blow up the system." https://bit.ly/2R0UIVS pic.twitter.com/RVX5IXHuN6
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