Reply To: schools closed over next few days

student-do me a favor. go read the chinuch roundtable in the yated on how Rabbi Yaakov Bender responds to angry parents and schools being closed.

while you may have a 9-5 job or even shorter, you are not bringing your work home they way we are. we are constantly on the phone with parents, social workers, etc trying to make sure YOUR children are doing OK! you know what else we are doing for YOUR children? teaching them to read, write, about the yomim tovim, chumash, navi, halacha etc. YOU are home with your children a couple of hours a night. WE are with YUOR children a good 6-8 hours a day. and sadly many times it is parents who deny that YOUR child has a problem because you are not with them as much as we are. we know when they werent bathed the night before, we know when they didnt sleep well, we know wha they are eating daily. YOU have NO reshus whatsoever to complain about where your money for tuition is going because at the end of the day we are there for your children faster than many parents are. We know who’s parents are home at night to do homework with their children and who isnt. We know whos more into themselves than their own children. Oh and not to mention when we do go home and have to be on the phone with parents, we still have to take care of our spouses and children. There are nights I cant sleep because I am worried about my students. I love each and every one of them and the days that I am not with them I hope that they are OK at home and are safe. you know why they have to give off some days for us “hard working” teachers? Because WE need time to take care of our own needs and pesach clean, and fast on a fast day oh and also cook. Do you knwo what its like when a teacher takes a day off? the class’ routine is not always 100% right, class may act out and not to mention you have to train the sub in. It is MUCH harder to take off from school then it is from any other job. So next time anyone wants to complain about teachers and schools…DON’T!