Some Florida parents are drinking more alcohol and smoking more weed to get through remote learning with their children.
Edith Pride, a teacher at Boca Raton Elementary said that some parents are even caught on camera walking around barely clothed drinking alcohol and smoking during the classes.
"We need to make sure parents don't get on the computer to help their children with joints in their hand and cigarettes in their mouth; sometimes the joints are as big as cigars. You can't do that!" Pride said.
She just wants parents to realize that the teachers can see right into their house during the video classes.
"We've seen the parents in towels, we've seen them in underclothes, we've seen them in bras, it's just inappropriate. The children can see it in the squares." Pride added.
Pride let the school board know about the issues on Wednesday, and many other teachers have thanked her for doing so due to experiencing similar situations.
Some teachers have also told the media and school officials that they have seen parents drinking alcohol before noon without their shirt on, and even sitting on the couch with their ankle monitor in clear view.
A study from Elysa Grossman at John Hopkins University showed that parents are stressed and drinking more during the last few months of the pandemic.
"We found that parents who are stressed by having to help their children with distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic drink seven more drinks per month than parents who do not report feeling stressed by distance learning, these stressed parents are also twice as likely to report binge drinking at least once over the prior month than parents who are not stressed, according to our results." Grossman said.
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