There’s an ongoing struggle happening between the people who want teachers and students to be back in classrooms and those who want there to be much more progress in our fight against COVID-19 before schools safely re-open. This week, the city of San Francisco filed a lawsuit against its own school district in a desperate effort (stunt?) to force schools to re-open. While the whole situation sucks for so many stakeholders and there’s a lot of angles to debate, one thing is certain: teachers are in an incredibly tough spot and continue to be one of the most undervalued parts of our economy. We don’t have kids in school yet, and for that I’m eternally grateful. I hope that by the time Matteo is ready to be in the classroom, the classroom is safely re-opened. Until then, and nevertheless, I am grateful for all of the essential workers who are operating in extraordinary circumstances to do a job for which they’re mostly underpaid in ordinary circumstances.
