Abstract:
The COVID-19 pandemic has entered its second year in Indonesia so that the learning process during the pandemic still uses online-based learning completely, even though there are plans to simultaneously use online and face-to-face learning to be implemented. This study is intended to describe parental emotional blackmail to teachers who carry out online learning during the pandemic. Then, with emotional blackmail, does it press or motivate teachers to carry out online learning. The research approach is quantitative with descriptive survey-type research, through taking random sampling, namely the respondents who are in the teacher's social media forum, from January to March in 2021. The results of data collection were 897 respondents spread across 4 provinces: Kalimantan Selatan, Jawa Tengah, Kalimantan Timur, Sulawesi Tenggara, and Kalimantan Tengah. The data collection instrument used a questionnaire, descriptive statistical analysis techniques. The results showed that 87.7% of respondents stated that they experienced emotional blackmail, parents of students, and teachers who experienced emotional blackmail so that they were pressured to apply online learning during the pandemic period.
