Most journalists stopped following me some time ago - so it really serves no purpose for me to offer a critique of the impact their work has on people.

I'll do it anyway, because it's a Friday night and I'm looking at my Facebook feed. Teachers in NSW are angry. Yes, they are angry at a government who want to plunge them into an uncertain situation that will not help student learning one bit.

They are angry also at the way journalists have reported the situation regarding schools. That's because teachers are being degraded and patronised to in ways that were only incidental in the past.

The continual way that journalists uncritically examine the Federal Government's insistence that schools are perfectly fine to be open, by claiming that "it's science", when it's only Australia's CMOs making statements that it could be achieved.

How do we know Morrison isn't pressuring these people? Journalists aren't asking those questions, aren't asking why there's a gap between Australia and other nations. No, there is now a consensus in our media that "home schooling" is ruining the education of children.

As a result, media outlets are pumping out the stories that continue to make the case that "home schooling" (remote and asynchronous learning) is bad. Plus, now with added demonisation of teachers as union thugs, refusing to "go to work".

I have been teaching for 25 years, and I am currently working as hard as I ever have in classrooms - this is still teaching. In fact, I have more marking now than before, because remote learning demands more of teachers in terms of marking and feedback.

But NONE of the facts from teacher perspectives are being put through our media sausage machine, because it seems that most journalists are either ignorant, or worse, parents who seem resentful that their kids are at home, instead of at school, having teachers look after them.

The thing about these teachers, though, is that I personally am not overly surprised about any of this. I did a Masters thesis about the ignorance of most journalists who write about education, let alone pontificators from political journalism. This all comes as no shock.

However, teachers are, in my experience, very respectful of journalists and revere them to an extent. Especially English teachers, who use their work in classrooms to deconstruct and analyse. This current situation, however, is bursting that bubble and upsetting those teachers.

They would be fearing - rightfully - that the coverage of this situation in schools, which are largely blanking teachers' perspectives, is feeding into the NSW Government's wrong headed approach to their new term, as well as into Morrison's weird obsession with reopening.

There is no way that schools can revolve students through a school on some kind of roster. Only a politician or a journalist could come up with a barking mad idea like that. It won't work. At the moment, teachers can barely tell the difference between them.

And it's not as if leftist and politically progressive twitter is any better. If teachers followed them (and thankfully, most don't), they would be confused as to why lots of them are suddenly pro-Morrison's "stay at school mantra" and criticising their remote learning lessons.

If you're a grumpy cynic like me who has been abused by journalists, their fans, as well as progressive brand building windbags for a while, it's easy to walk away and dismiss their ignorance. But for my friends on FB, they are hurting now. And I am angry on behalf of them.

We know about this. We know about schools overseas. But Morrison is Trump like on this - he has a weird obsession about keeping schools open. It's one thing he actually believes in, other than his own brand, of course. https://twitter.com/Latte_Bogan/status/1253627668102184962?s=20

We have heard from many academics on this, but not education academics. They are blanked as well. https://twitter.com/ktibus/status/1253632098344165376?s=20

What do we get from our media? Facile, offensive rubbish like this. I am making video calls every day to at least one of my classes, and answering their questions during the scheduled lessons. This is crap. https://www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/life-and-relationships/home-school-of-hard-knocks-the-diary-of-a-wfh-mother-20200407-p54hto.html