Posted by a teacher on facebook:

[kpete]

Dear faculty: please put your life at risk by offering in-person classes, but also live-stream your class for students who can't/won't do in person, while also handling in-person discussion, discussion and chat via the live stream and also would you please record every class for students who can't do synchronous learning despite our requirement that you do synchronous teaching, create robust asynchronous class content, accommodate anyone who wants to take your class in any way they want to take it, create an attendance policy that is not actually tied in any way to attendance, re-do your syllabus 6 times (in-person, in-person/low density, a/b/c-day classes, hybrid, synchronous, asynchronous, all of the above) and also could you teach in a mask, turn part of your house into a classroom, sterilize your classroom technology and desk, don't eat/drink or pee on campus, teach behind a barrier, police the students' mask use and social distancing, and while you're at it, maybe solve Fermat's last theorem? Here--here's a stick for your trouble. To poke elevators with. We paid tens of thousands of dollars to have our logo put on your stick and mail it to you


https://www.facebook.com/leslie.harrison/posts/10157612836960669

[Dem2theMax]

1. AND,

you will have to give up sleeping in order to accomplish all of this.

When all is said and done, we will give you a certificate.
Unfortunately, it might be a death certificate.

[Volaris]

5. Seriously, they should just all go on a nationwide strike.

'We will be happy to teach your kids whatever they want to learn, via web chat/zoom-skype/whatever, but we're not inclined to kill ourselves for Your Prescious Little Johnny. And, since we know how important ALL the Born Prescious's are to ALL you self professed pro life folks, we bet that you wouldnt want to endanger their safety, either.

This serves the additional purpose reminding the general populace, as well as the idle and idiot rich (lookin at YOU, Betsy) how much economic power we the people actually have at our fingertips...union or not.

[CRK7376]

2. This was great....

but you left out the part about contacting and maintaining a log of the attempts to contact, by phone, email and Remind app, those students and their parents to inform them that their child has not turned in any of our online assignments, has not participated in any discussion....oh by the way the link to the assignment is dead, new student just transferred in and will not participate because they have a grade of 83 from their previous school and we still have 6weeks of online learning to complete.....Or the part where the kid contacts you and says I'm using my cell phone to answer your homework assignment, my family doesn't have a computer or that our internet service was cut off due to not paying the cable bill.....oh yeah, don't forget to be a school to help support the Drive By graduation ceremony.......

That was my life from March 16th thru June12th....

[fromVT]

3. And the pay?

An adjunct instructor is a temporary worker, under contract for one semester (typically 15 weeks). That person would typically be paid $1500-$3000 for this class and that work, before taxes, and with zero benefits of any kind.

The pay rate varies with what kind of school (community college, 4 year college, university), sometimes with subject, and with degree level for the instructor (usually a masters or PhD).

Imagine being asked to give up your life and health for $1500, for all of that work.

[crickets]

4. I feel for every single school teacher right now. Yikes. nt