Teachers complain parents are appearing behind students in online classrooms half-dressed, smoking or drinking

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Teachers complain parents are appearing behind students in online classrooms half-dressed, smoking or drinking

Florida parents appearing half-dressed, drinking or smoking during their kids' virtual classrooms has prompted teachers at Boca Raton Elementary to speak up during a school board meeting this week.
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BOCA RATON, Fla. — Florida parents appearing half-dressed, drinking or smoking during their kids’ virtual classrooms has prompted teachers at Boca Raton Elementary to speak up during a school board meeting this week.

Edith Pride was one of the first to make a public comment on the matter.

“Parents, please make sure that you have on proper clothing when you are walking behind your child’s computer, because we’ve seen them in their drawers, their bras, and everything else,” Pride said at the meeting, according to WPEC.

Pride noted that some parents had been seen holding cigarettes and possibly joints.

“Parents, when you are helping your children at their computer please do not appear with big joints in your hands and cigarettes. Those joints be as big as cigars. Oh yeah, we’ve seen it all,” Pride said.

Other teachers reached out to WPEC sharing similar experiences including seeing a shirtless father drinking before noon in the background of an online class.

Teachers say they are worried about other children being exposed to behavior that is unfamiliar.

“[They] do see other things that they’ve probably never seen before, so I know that is a challenge,” a teacher told WPEC.
 
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“Parents, please make sure that you have on proper clothing when you are walking behind your child’s computer, because we’ve seen them in their drawers, their bras, and everything else,” Pride said at the meeting, according to WPEC.

Pride noted that some parents had been seen holding cigarettes and possibly joints.
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If the student environment is beyond the teacher’s control, then the teacher should not be enabling students to see one another’s video feeds.
 
"Those joints be as big as cigars. Oh yeah, we’ve seen it all,” Pride said.

How about proper grammar coming from the teacher?
Is it too much to ask that our teachers speak properly?

Sounds to me like time to consider replacement of this teacher.
 
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From what I understand a lot of the software used doesn’t allow you to do that. They’re designed for conference calls more than teaching children. Having said that there are probably benefits to maintaining a classroom environment so teachers might not even want to do that.

Honestly it seems like common sense not to walk around in your underwear if there is a live webcam being used by someone in the same room as you.
 
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How about proper grammar coming from the teacher?
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Informal grammar is often instrumental in communicating emotional intensity. It has its place. Look at the following as an example.

“I refuse to tolerate this!”

“I ain’t going to put up with this no more!”

The latter of the two has grammatical problems, but does a better job of communicating how the speaker feels.
 
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Honestly it seems like common sense not to walk around in your underwear if there is a live webcam being used by someone in the same room as you.
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I read this, and think of the news reporter in his home with the naked lady that was not his girlfriend walking by.

Not that I’ve seen anything bad, but on my own conference calls I see the family members of employees comfortably going on about their business. This doesn’t sound like a far cry from that. I think people just haven’t reconsidered their normal scenarios in the house with a camera broadcasting.
 
Here is my typical day during the work week.

Get up at 6:30
Brush Teeth
Set 3 Eggs to Boil
Make Coffee
Unload Dishwasher
Open Curtains
Restart Computer
Pour Coffee
Peel Eggs
Start Work at 7:00
Zoom Meeting at 9:00
End Work at 3:30
Take off Pajamas at 6:45
Take Shower
Put on fresh Pajamas
Watch TV from 7 to 10 with wife.
Go to Bed.

The luxuries of working from home during the Covid-19 Hoax.
 
Here is mine.

out of bed at 7:00am
Brush teeth
Take a 5 mile walk
Take shiwer
Have breakfast
Listen to news
Get dressed for work
Watch youtube
Work on my writing job
12:00pm log in for work on my primary job (with a west coast team from my best coast home)
3:00pm take lunch break
9:00pm stop working, eat dinner
Watch some Netflix while working on my writing job
12:00 fall asleep

Most activities with the wife are on the weekend. This west-coast schedule I ended up on from COVID-19 consequences makes weekday schedules not line up well.
 
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