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A Melbourne high school teacher has told The Advocate today that he’s not sure if his hatred for teaching online outweighs his fear of getting kissed by the pangolin at school and dying because of it.
Glenn Taylor, who used to teach Extention Mathematics at St Aneurysm’s High School in Betoota Heights, said he’s not going back to teaching online.
“It was the worst thing,” he said.
“If it wasn’t the computer taking the piss out of me, it was the students,”
“And I’m nearly 75. I can’t keep up with them. They don’t listen, they pretend they can’t hear me. Sometimes, they actually can’t hear me because the microphone isn’t authorised or something like that. I tell you, it’s a fate worse than death.”
However, that statement has since proved to be incorrect as Taylor went onto explain that he’s terrified of catching COVID-19 because he’s 75-years-old.
“If I catch this fucking thing, it’ll roll me quicker than a 600mL buddy of 1080. Have you seen those pictures on the news of those bare-arsed Italians on the fronts in the hospital strapped to a ventilator? Mate, put a fork in me. That’ll just about do me. Imagine if I ended up on the news like that.”
When asked what his fellow teachers think, especially the ones of his vintage, he says they all feel the same way.
“Have you seen the stats? The most common Australian to have this bloody thing is a young lady aged between 19 and 30. Sounds like the majority of teachers in this country to me!”
“But Christ on a bike, I’d rather catch this fucking thing if it means I have to go back to online teaching,”
“I don’t know what to do.”
More to come.
