Name:   Talullahhound - Subject:   I never said that Date:   7/25/2020 12:50:18 PM

I'm trying to think of what kind of government job could not be done remotely.... I know in DoD, there are very few "hands on" jobs anymore, but perhaps I am not thinking broadly enough.  

This may have changed since I have retired, but when I worked with contractors a lot, in between production breaks they would continue to pay their skilled workforce in order that they could retain them.  This was often a bone of contention on Defense contract negotiations with the contractors about how whether the government owned a share of the cost for retaining the skilled labor.  It wasn't like their skills could be moved to another production line during production breaks in one line.  Another bone of contection was maintining the floor space for production, but that was another story.  

I think that the teachers are really between a rock and a hard place.  I think they want to work, but that they know what they are facing in the classroom this Fall is not going to be pretty.  Trying to keep kids socially distanced, and in masks is going to make teaching difficult.  Beside the fact that they are normally faced with a classroom of kids with no respect for authority and no manners and parents that defend "junior" no matter what he says or does.