That is fantastic that the teachers made great use of all the free time that came up and more importantly the teachers created a lasting memory for your children. However lets not kid ourselves and think they worked harder teaching.
My comment is not that the teachers aren't good people but that they aren't really doing their job of teaching.
That was not my experience - at all.
Yes, with two kids at home, I had a more active role in helping them learn and understand certain things. But, that does not mean the teachers were lying back drinking cocktails by the pool. It reflects that I had the capacity to step in to fill a void created when teachers were struggling to reach out to all the kids across all the classes they taught.
Teachers are like the rest of society, some were better equipped to handle the technology of remote learning, and others were not. Some teachers had multiple Zoom meetings per week, some had none. All teachers created lesson plans and content for the kids. All teachers were available for questions via email and/or Google classroom. But that time gets eaten up very quickly when you consider each teacher has 120-150 different students they teach each day.
Nobody asked for this level of disruption - not the teachers, not the students, and not the parents. But, in my experience, teachers stepped up, and did their best to help students and families get through the period - and they did so with virtually no training or experience in how to engage students remotely. They did their jobs, the best they could - and that is all we can really ask of anyone.
I happen to know several teachers outside of my kids' teachers, and I would not say any of them had an "easy" time during the shut down. Just the opposite - their job was made more difficult, and yet still needed to be done.
Even in the best of times, I think we take teachers' roles for granted - we drop kids off in the morning, pick them up in the afternoon, and give little thought to how they made it through the day. But this period really drove home the important role they fill in our kids lives. I just think it is an under-appreciated profession where their rewards are often just seeing the successes, large and small, of the kids they teach.
It does not take much to just say "Thanks!" and not #### all over them.