Financing construction projects - Enough equity?

During the first lockdown, the teachers just had time off and did absolutely nothing. After that, it got minimally better; none of the teachers in my circle really overworked themselves. Neither the teachers of my children at my school nor the teachers in the neighborhood. Sorry, but I just had to get that off my chest. Nice to read that there are still more dedicated teachers than what I experience here :)

Thanks for the encouragement :) exactly my perception. Complaining at a very high level because the dear teachers had to install TeamViewer

And how on earth do you know how much work the teachers have??? In the last weeks before the report card deadline, my wife always sat until midnight to write the report cards in addition to/alongside teaching. Now she has to write articles for the annual report. In between, at least 10 training sessions for online teaching, in the evenings additionally to the online classes. Every week additional meetings about what new rules there are again, which then apply exactly for 1-2 weeks. Alternating instruction means for my wife that she prepares every lesson for the children at home and for the children present. I can only speak for us, but my wife works SIGNIFICANTLY more than I do with my 40-hour week. I can’t remember a single weekend when she wasn’t in the study, and I myself have never done any work on weekends... My mother, despite 70% part-time, worked up to retirement more than my father with his 40-hour week. I can’t judge others, but we logically have many teacher friends, and for most of them it’s like it is for us. Also, studies on workloads confirm this, so we don’t seem to be the only exceptions.

She is clearly doing something wrong. Overtime is compensated, there are special regulations. Especially for civil servants. Teachers mostly only see ME ME ME. We parents apparently don’t have a double burden. We laze around at home and don’t have to hope for consideration from our own employer because we decided to have children and now have to support them at home.

Also, I don’t know a single child who says “cool, homeschooling today, let’s do it.”

You get exactly 0 compensation for overtime caused by lockdown. The rules refer to hours as stated in the schedule.

I find the expectation interesting: having children and then showing up with very precise ideas about how the world should revolve around your offspring so that you can quietly pursue your well-paid job...
Your complaining and your story about the “part-time teacher” show one thing: you miss the work of teachers and it actually relieves you. When was the last time you missed bankers in the same way?

But you lash out at those you need more. Despite a Serbian migration background, you have arrived in the upper class of Germanness – congratulations on your integration.

Regarding teachers: Like everywhere else, you can do the job one way or another. Formally, a school is not an educational institution but an authority that must ensure legally secure documentation (of almost everything) despite the disruptive factor of students. In such a biotope, a teacher can work as much as they want if, in addition to documenting, they also want to educate children. What you get for that: nothing extra.

But when it comes to general bashing, you’re on board.

You get exactly 0 compensation for overtime caused by lockdown. The rules refer to the hours reflected in the timetable.

I find the expectation interesting: having children and then showing up with very precise ideas about how the world should revolve around your own offspring so that you can pursue your well-paid job undisturbed...
Your complaining and your story about the “part-time teacher” show one thing: You miss the work of teachers and it really relieves you. When was the last time you missed bank clerks in the same way?

But you lash out at those you need more. Although of Serbian migration background, you have thus arrived in the upper class of Germanness - congratulations on the integration.

Regarding teachers: As everywhere, you can do the job one way or another. Formally, a school is not an educational institution but an authority that must ensure legally secure documentation (of almost everything) despite the disruptive factor of students. In such a biotope, as a teacher you can work arbitrarily much if you want to educate children besides documenting. What you get for that: nothing extra.

But you are there for the general criticism.

When you can’t withdraw your money from the ATM or make an online transfer, do you not miss anything?? That means for you that the little elves somehow manage? I always find it amusing how some professional groups keep pitying themselves and acting important. Yes, teachers are important, just like nurses or bankers. And yes, teachers are paid from our / my tax money. So they shouldn’t complain when they have to work more during the pandemic. My sympathy remains limited.

You did not (as usual and absolutely unsurprisingly) understand exactly what some teachers (not: THE teachers) are complaining about...

Working extra hours without extra pay has been common practice even before Corona. Unpaid overtime has long been done for your taxes, and lessons have been conducted with materials from the teachers' private resources.

Corona has exacerbated an existing grievance.

(By the way, tomorrow the teachers here will certify the first mass self-test of the students. Everyone can consider for themselves what payment they would require to do that for 100 children of strangers)

I do not want to encourage either side here, but with two elementary school children, the teaching staff at the elementary school at least during the first lockdown did not exactly earn praise, and that is said very politely. Practically nothing happened except for worksheets being sent by email once a week. There was practically no communication from the teachers, neither to the students to explain topics and provide assistance nor to correct homework. This basically went on from March until the end of the summer holidays in September.

In the second lockdown, Teams was used. Two meetings a day including forwarding of homework results by the students and checking by the teacher. There was communication 24/7. That means feedback came back at 10 p.m. or on Sunday.

Here in Bavaria, one week of Fasching was canceled. If one week of vacation is replaced by one week of extra work, I would not be happy. Is this compensated at all?

Out of gut feeling, the effort is currently on par and everyone hopes that it will get better someday.

Much more interesting is the question of how much the Corona generation will have to catch up on. After all, we are talking about 1.5 years during which knowledge was only inadequately conveyed. This may not be so tragic for 1st and 2nd graders (although I now also doubt that the current 1st or 2nd graders being taught at home correspond to the level from two years ago and are actually 1st or 2nd graders), but everyone else will show knowledge gaps.