To people who don't think 5 days a week is sustainable for teachers...

Yes. This is what we signed up for. This is our normal. <br><br>I often hear people say things like, "teachers are whiny and we don't want to go to work. I don't feel sorry for you. I worked 5 days a week since I was 16 and back in my day we blah blah blah."<br><br>This is our normal. And we want nothing more than for everything to go back to normal. <br><br>Many of us want to be at school. But not now, and not the way it is. We don't want to go back to work just because society needs to put their children somewhere. I know many parents are grateful to have children back at school. That's great. But this isn't normal. <br><br>Many of us have been working 40-50 hours a week since August. And that's not even taking into account the hours you've been putting in since March. And we're exhausted. We need schools to open the right way, not just as a social service. We want to go back to work to help children, not just to watch them. <br><br>And we want to with minimal risk of death. Why is that so hard to understand? <br><br>I don't know how anyone can think that 5 days a week is sustainable for us. Not right now. Not yet.