Teaching is a noble profession.  You need to be a special kind of person to selflessly throw yourself into a classroom full of kids who generally don’t like being there.  I’ve supported good teachers at all my sons schools for many years and never had an issue with supporting their efforts to be treated with respect by the government.

I’ve also taken certain teachers to task for being shitty teachers but generally never got involved in my kids teacher/student experience unless I was asked to be, by the principal.  More than once.  Ask Brent Matthews.

But the reaction by certain teachers (who seem to represent the whole) to last weeks announcement by Uber Douche, Stephen Lecce that March break for teachers and students will be in Mid-April.

https://crier.co/news/breaking-ontario-government-postpones-march-break-to-the-week-of-april-12th/

I carved parents for complaining and I’m carving the notion that teachers can’t wait too.

Here’s why.

1. I have two kids in HS.

2. They have been in class or (remote learning) for exactly 120 days in the past 365.

3.  Of those120 days, they have been in class for roughly 60 days and of those 60 days it was in class learning for one, two hour block.

4. They have been physically in class for 60 of the past 365 days.

5. The rest of the time they do homework in the same room all day, two feet away from where they sleep next to a bathroom, 20 feet away from the fridge.

6. Teachers have taught in roughly the same time frame thanks to the pandemic meaning the same math applies.  They have been required to teach 120 of the past 365 days in accordance with their assigned duties teaching in class or remotely where specific in line with Provincial health guidelines and restrictions.

7. March Break wasn’t cancelled, it was moved by a month provided we get our kids back to school safely BECAUSE our kids haven’t been in class for a third of the school year AT BEST.

8. When my kids told me they were sad about March break was being moved, I told them they needed to get a grip because I’ve watched them for the past year.   They are great students and I never get involved in their effort either but as a third party to the most relaxed year in scholastic history, I find it incredible that anyone who’s tied to the school year can’t wait a month for another guaranteed break.
9. Hundreds of thousands of parents are fighting to keep their homes while working odd jobs 10 hours a day thankful for the bread on their tables and they’re not complaining about their circumstances.
10. I’m well aware the majority of teachers work incredibly hard and we are happy that they do. That’s not the point of my opinion.

I’m talking about the teachers who I’ve watch remote teach my kids for 10 minutes a day. Seriously. We just finished a MONTH long XMAS break. It’s Feb 13. And looking for sympathy from burnt out parents is a tough sell for me. https://t.co/FXcqfQ44wj

— Dean Blundell (@ItsDeanBlundell) February 13, 2021

The March Break is a month late. That’s reality so live in it because complaining to us, is a dick move.

— Dean Blundell (@ItsDeanBlundell) February 13, 2021

The reaction has been terrific by analytics standards:).  I probably should have been a little less inflammatory but loved the back and forth even with the super crazy entitled teachers I was referring too.  Crazies don’t like other people opinions.

Was it wrong for me to generalize?  Maybe, but I have an issue with the whole notion that moving the March break to April based on 120 days of school in the past 365 is worth complaining over right now.  Watching teachers and teacher union tell me to fuck off or remind me about that time I was fired 10 years ago, was a nice reminder of who I was talking about tho.

I know Doug Ford and Stephen Lecce are useless and they’ve made teaching harder.  Some teachers and the union have been telling us about it for years.

I know it’s harder to be a Cop, too. That’s the thing about right now.  It’s really hard.

I know there are good teachers and bad teachers.  I know there are good kids and kids who struggle.  I know everyone needs a break, but none of those things were part of the discussion.

I question the notion schools need any time off after not being in session for two thirds of calendar year, this year according to what I’ve seen?  No. Not at all.  There are a million exceptions (mental health mostly) but reading that there’s a faction of teachers who are pissed about their march break being moved after doing all that math and seeing what I’ve seen, strikes me as ridiculous.

But don’t stop telling me to go fuck myself.  It’s my favourite.

Like this one…

And this one…

Emily deleted it.  Tsk tsk.  Just a straight-up lie from a teacher to make me look like a misogynist. Hot move.

This teacher is so angry he’s insinuating I abuse my kids…

Pro Tip: I don’t make you mad, you make you mad.

What amazed me about the response from some of these fucking morons, is that they teach our kids with those mouths.  I wouldn’t trust any one of these teachers in a classroom with kids.  This is the general reaction you get any time you criticize the teachers union or teachers’ intentions because the union acts as a glorified mob of do-gooders, shielding the asshole teachers you see in these rage-filled, hate tweets.

If you’re a good teacher who works hard, you don’t need me to point that out.  The pride you feel from doing your job doesn’t need an equal amount of heralding.  It’s about you and your ego, not my tweet.  You don’t need to keep telling a bunch of people who are sick and tired that you’re sick and tired and you don’t get paid enough for it.

It’s burnout.

Cheers to all of the good educators and none of the dick heads.

Dean