OT. Schools...normality and Coronavirus.

[ramAnag]

I don't doubt that teachers are an important part of society, and not in the obvious way of teaching. They are surrogate parents in a society where many families now have two working parents as a financial necessity or preference. Take your pick which.

I just hope that the teaching profession don't get disillusioned with that role, which probably isn't what many of them will have signed up for.

Difficult to see how it’s not important in ‘the most obvious way of teaching’.

In addition I’m glad you now recognise they also provide a child minding facility which enables the nation to work.

They are only surrogate parents where the natural parents - very easy to become, rather harder to be good at - are inadequate or absent.

Hopefully, as was suggested much earlier in this crisis, there will be some re-evaluation of how society values various occupations once the pandemic is over, and I say that just as much about ‘bin men’ and shop workers as about teachers and medical staff.
Not so sure about the ‘bean counters’ though.