The compounding stresses of the coronavirus pandemic, the sudden transition to remote learning, and the politicization of schools reopening are burning out teachers.
“It's like a perfect storm happening right now because the federal government hasn't passed any legislation to give states any money,” Tish Jennings, an associate professor at the University of Virginia who studies how stress affects teachers, told Yahoo Finance. “And so when they don't have enough money in the state, what suffers is the quality of education — the teachers don't get raises, teachers get laid off, the class sizes grow.
“I’m pretty sure this was unprecedented,” Michael Madowitz, an economist at the Center for American Progress, told Yahoo Finance in June. “We’re already past the total state and local job losses of the last recession.” Story continuesRemote learning makes things ‘really, really tough’For many teachers, the first few instances of not having face-to-face contact with their students was jarring.
All things consider, teaching through the pandemic “has really taken an Herculean effort to get these schools to shift this way,” Jennings added. “We haven't done a good enough job of preparing for another shutdown or continued shutdown. And at the same time we haven't done a good enough job managing the coronavirus.”
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