Letters

摘要

Your leader calling for schools to reopen presented a straw-man argument when it described teachers as "obstructive" ("Let them learn", July 18th). I am a high-school teacher just north of New York City. All my colleagues desperately want to be in school full-time come September. But the federal government has offered not one scintilla of advice or assistance on how to go about opening schools safely. You also made an insulting insinuation about teachers being paid whether they work or not. That is silly. There is nothing I would want more professionally than to be in school. Teaching online is difficult, time-consuming and largely unrewarding, compared with teaching children in person. I don't know anyone who prefers the former.