First For Me Teleconference With Dr.

Sounds like a decent guy. I go to a new doctor tomorrow for the first time. I hope he has a sense of humor.

Sadly, the school teachers and their unions are quite comfortable in teleconferencing the classes too, to the point they never want to enter a classroom again.

I have watched my granddaughters curriculum on her stay at home days.
I could produce what her teacher does in 2 hours, and I have no teaching credentials.

Not a bad gig if you can do it, and you have summers off.

Covid is a culture changer, and not for the better.

your granddaughter much have a shitty teacher. My wife's a teacher, and you would not believe the amount of goddam work she has to do for the remote learning shite. It's insane. Her "union" is useless. Most teachers unions are. She gets shite pay for what she does, yet she's fully invested in her students' education. Not to mention, she's chosen to teach her kids remotely from her classroom in the school. Also, when you ACTUALLY work 60+ hours a week, being a surrogate-parent/guardian/babysitter/counselor/educator for a bunch of shitty parents AND their kids, who demand blood from a stone for +/- $50K/yr, the summers off thing works out pretty evenly. Especially since a good chunk of that "summers off" time is used for planning, not to mention spending your own money (MY MONEY) on supplies to get ready for the next year (because your entire budget for your year's teaching supplies is $150). It's a pretty shitty gig, when you constantly get crapped on by people who assume you do next to nothing, collect a paycheck, and get "summers off". Just like other politically controversial professions, let's not let a few bad apples ruin the bushel. Sorry, struck a nerve.

I hear you. And it's frustrating. Most teachers have their hands tied in one way or another. A lot of the time, it's not the teachers fault. It's the Board of Ed, and administration hindering things. There are people who have never taught in a classroom, or haven't taught in YEARS, making the decisions on curriculum, budget, and everything else. It's asinine. It's like a company's financial administration making all the IT infrastructure decisions, like a hiring a plumber to fix your car, like using a wrench to hammer nails. That's where you get a crappy curriculum. And, when you don't support your teachers, and don't give them the proper tools to do their jobs, everyone loses out. I think communities need to take parents, BoE, and Ed. Admin to task. Every teacher I know WANTS to do things better, smarter, more efficiently, and more productively. They WANT their students to flourish.

A few weeks back, we had a telecon with a consultant regarding my daughter. Was strange, but I'm glad I didn't have to drive to Belfast and back for it.

We did the same a few months earlier with a consultant in Dublin...I was even MORE glad that I didn't have to drive there and back for a waste-of-time appointment.

COVID has been a culture change, like trailboss said, and in many ways, not for the better...but in some ways, it's brought about some welcomed change.

LoL! One thing I can say about you OC is you've never been shy about this kind of thing in the past so Yeah, I know exactly what you mean.

I suppose that with doctor visits, teleconference would make sense in some regard. With the technology being able to transmit vital signs, it could help.

My wife had a visit to the ER some years back in excruciating pain. The doctor never looked at her leg but ordered crutches and no pain meds, but he referred her to another doctor and prescribed crutches. his less than one minute prognosis was $600.00...that was his cahrge, not the ER and everything else.