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Teachers are teachers, not babysitters

Editor: Teachers are in schools to teach. They’re not there to babysit kids. Their job is to teach students.

Editor:

Teachers are in schools to teach. They’re not there to babysit kids. Their job is to teach students.

If people need double incomes to afford their lives, and there is a labour dispute at schools that shuts them down and there is no one at home to care for kids, that is not a teacher’s problem. That is a parent’s problem.

Teachers are grossly underpaid and underestimated. We take advantage of their good will. We should be ashamed of ourselves.

Joe Dougherty, Roberts Creek