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Teachers are keyworkers. I don't know why so few media outlets regularly include teachers in their lists of keyworkers. Russia claims to be going to vaccinate doctors and teachers first. More ...
And why some media have repeatedly talked about teachers and schools in terms of what they are not doing, or positioning them as negative, throughout the pandemic . More ...
When the government has repeatedly let them down on promises to support their work. Teachers have been dealing with hunger, poverty, infection, mental health as well as exams, learning and general childcare. More ...
And this will continue for several years as teachers will be the ones to pick up the pieces of children's lives and try to instil positivity and progress, again with the usual lack of wraparound support that schools need. More ....
Often in a climate of blame for shortcomings rather than praise for keeping going since March 2020, many without a break - the anti-union rhetoric that runs in the blood of some newspapers and politicians masks this central fact: teachers are keyworkers. Celebrate.
