So as a result of Covid-19, my workplace has been closed as per the local governments directive. All staff were informed the day that the centre was to close which i find ridiculous - Thursday we were joking about being told to social distance (1.5m) from students and how that meant we had to let the kids that couldn't swim drown and the next day at midday "The local government is shutting the centre at 5 pm today"
Which is irritating cause now i, amongst about 50 others have no income and we were talking about the centre not closing because swimming lessons are classified as an 'essential service' like could they not just close the pool to the general public and only allow swimming lessons to run? Or at least give us notice because i know some ladies who's partners are unemployed and they rely on that income and then BAM you have 5 hours to figure out how you are going to pay for food and bills.
And out of all the teachers, I'm the lucky one.
So heres my question:
should i not get new work and go ham on school
OR
should i get a new job with (potentially) same or less hours than before?
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What is everyone's schools doing in response to the virus? Have you or are you transitioning to online learning yet and what are you using?
My school has said that they don't know when the school will close (like most) but are beginning to discuss what will happen if it does. For Maths, we are using google hangouts video calling to ask our teachers questions and for legal we are just going to be following lesson plans and send our teacher an email if we are unsure about anything. Online learning hasn't been discussed for my other subjects though.
Call me selfish but tbh, i don't want my school to close because school is a great getaway from home and online learning will most likely be difficult in the sense of not having the teacher right there