Teachers union says schools "must" be fully reopened in the fall

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:funny how when a teachers union says kids belong in school, it feels like it must be a sneaky trick to make sure kids can't go to school

It's kind of hard to take them at face value after this year.

I’m not sure I blame them for not wanting to go in before there was a vaccine. I didn’t want to go to my office either and I wasn’t forced to. We could have offered hazard pay to essential workers but we mostly didn’t - just told people to suck it up and go in. The pandemic was an unprecedented situation

[Anonymous]

I am so tired of people pointing out that the pandemic is unprecedented as an excuse for allowing anything to happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am so tired of people pointing out that the pandemic is unprecedented as an excuse for allowing anything to happen.

Then you have big problems

[Anonymous]

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She's a fkn gargoyle. It's just so absolutely ridiculous that either she knows it and is a troll or she actually has a bowl of pudding instead of a brain. No thinking person could possibly imagine that everyone could work from home unless they believe that all service workers and people in customer-facing roles are non player characters in a videogame or something.

I have wondered if she's a MAGA troll that's just here to make mothers feel like they need to stay in the home.

Isn't it so weird that she's screaming about the patriarchy in order to keep women home

Ahem the women who whine on here are all working from home. Well established that DCUM is made up of white, white collar professionals in ward 3. You all only use people of color and essential workers when you want to show off how woke you are but still don’t listen to people of color.

Never said women should stay home - women should do what they want. That is the point of feminism. But women should also expect and demand their partners do the same amount of work they do - emotional, physical, home, kids etc

I’m pointing out that your huzzzbamds are doing their part of the deal and somehow that means my marriage is bad?

So much projection.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

She's a fkn gargoyle. It's just so absolutely ridiculous that either she knows it and is a troll or she actually has a bowl of pudding instead of a brain. No thinking person could possibly imagine that everyone could work from home unless they believe that all service workers and people in customer-facing roles are non player characters in a videogame or something.

I have wondered if she's a MAGA troll that's just here to make mothers feel like they need to stay in the home.

Isn't it so weird that she's screaming about the patriarchy in order to keep women home

Ahem the women who whine on here are all working from home. Well established that DCUM is made up of white, white collar professionals in ward 3. You all only use people of color and essential workers when you want to show off how woke you are but still don’t listen to people of color.

Never said women should stay home - women should do what they want. That is the point of feminism. But women should also expect and demand their partners do the same amount of work they do - emotional, physical, home, kids etc

I’m pointing out that your huzzzbamds are doing their part of the deal and somehow that means my marriage is bad?

So much projection.

Word salad poster continues to spout incomprehensible word salad, I guess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MCPS is planning on a separate virtual academy. DCPS should do that too. I think in MCPS, the plan is that teachers hired to teach virtually will have to work from a specific location and not teach from home. Makes sense to me. They are asking parents now about who wants to stay virtual so they can figure out how many virtual teachers to hire. Students will not be allowed to switch back and forth between virtual and in-person.

+1

I will be interested to know how many choose the virtual academy due to COVID (high risk students and family members, etc) vs. other reasons (desire to avoid social interactions due to uncontrolled anxiety, older students' wish to juggle school and work schedules, attempts to escape from bullying that took place in person).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:funny how when a teachers union says kids belong in school, it feels like it must be a sneaky trick to make sure kids can't go to school

It's kind of hard to take them at face value after this year.

I’m not sure I blame them for not wanting to go in before there was a vaccine. I didn’t want to go to my office either and I wasn’t forced to. We could have offered hazard pay to essential workers but we mostly didn’t - just told people to suck it up and go in. The pandemic was an unprecedented situation

bull. somehow teachers *everywhere* except in Democratic union dominated state public schools managed to return. Private schools and catholic schools were open everywhere. it was a political choice to stay closed and prioritize politically influential adults over kids and families.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCPS is planning on a separate virtual academy. DCPS should do that too. I think in MCPS, the plan is that teachers hired to teach virtually will have to work from a specific location and not teach from home. Makes sense to me. They are asking parents now about who wants to stay virtual so they can figure out how many virtual teachers to hire. Students will not be allowed to switch back and forth between virtual and in-person.

+1

I will be interested to know how many choose the virtual academy due to COVID (high risk students and family members, etc) vs. other reasons (desire to avoid social interactions due to uncontrolled anxiety, older students' wish to juggle school and work schedules, attempts to escape from bullying that took place in person).

Fully agree and curious too about the numbers

I wonder how many families now know they could ask for this and will.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:funny how when a teachers union says kids belong in school, it feels like it must be a sneaky trick to make sure kids can't go to school

It's kind of hard to take them at face value after this year.

I’m not sure I blame them for not wanting to go in before there was a vaccine. I didn’t want to go to my office either and I wasn’t forced to. We could have offered hazard pay to essential workers but we mostly didn’t - just told people to suck it up and go in. The pandemic was an unprecedented situation

bull. somehow teachers *everywhere* except in Democratic union dominated state public schools managed to return. Private schools and catholic schools were open everywhere. it was a political choice to stay closed and prioritize politically influential adults over kids and families.

This.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

She's a fkn gargoyle. It's just so absolutely ridiculous that either she knows it and is a troll or she actually has a bowl of pudding instead of a brain. No thinking person could possibly imagine that everyone could work from home unless they believe that all service workers and people in customer-facing roles are non player characters in a videogame or something.

I have wondered if she's a MAGA troll that's just here to make mothers feel like they need to stay in the home.

Isn't it so weird that she's screaming about the patriarchy in order to keep women home

Ahem the women who whine on here are all working from home. Well established that DCUM is made up of white, white collar professionals in ward 3. You all only use people of color and essential workers when you want to show off how woke you are but still don’t listen to people of color.

Never said women should stay home - women should do what they want. That is the point of feminism. But women should also expect and demand their partners do the same amount of work they do - emotional, physical, home, kids etc

I’m pointing out that your huzzzbamds are doing their part of the deal and somehow that means my marriage is bad?

So much projection.

Word salad poster continues to spout incomprehensible word salad, I guess.

She really needs everyone to be her stereotype in order to make her arguments. If they are not her stereotype she pretends their stories aren't real. Like I said, I think she's struggling heavily with cognitive dissonance. It's like a Trumper.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCPS is planning on a separate virtual academy. DCPS should do that too. I think in MCPS, the plan is that teachers hired to teach virtually will have to work from a specific location and not teach from home. Makes sense to me. They are asking parents now about who wants to stay virtual so they can figure out how many virtual teachers to hire. Students will not be allowed to switch back and forth between virtual and in-person.

+1

I will be interested to know how many choose the virtual academy due to COVID (high risk students and family members, etc) vs. other reasons (desire to avoid social interactions due to uncontrolled anxiety, older students' wish to juggle school and work schedules, attempts to escape from bullying that took place in person).

Unfortunately, I believe this is a thing. I was talking to the mom of my MS child's friend, and her daughter was thrilled with remote learning. They were dealing with anxiety and some friend and bullying issues before the pandemic. Most parents and MS children we know desperately want schools to reopen, but I think some are using the pandemic as a cover to isolate and avoid social interactions. It seems like a bad idea that will have negative implications down the line though.

[Anonymous]

Actually, one of the few silver linings to DL has been avoiding the Lord of the Flies that is the MS environment in DCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:funny how when a teachers union says kids belong in school, it feels like it must be a sneaky trick to make sure kids can't go to school

It's kind of hard to take them at face value after this year.

I’m not sure I blame them for not wanting to go in before there was a vaccine. I didn’t want to go to my office either and I wasn’t forced to. We could have offered hazard pay to essential workers but we mostly didn’t - just told people to suck it up and go in. The pandemic was an unprecedented situation

Even though every doctor in America said it was safe to reopen schools, even without a vaccine? Even though children have a human right to an education, which they've been effectively been denied for the past year? Even though doctors and nurses and daycare workers and the pizza delivery guy and teachers at private schools and teachers at public schools outside the DMV and grocery store workers never stopped going to the office? I dont think any of them got hazard pay. Many had to wait to get vaccinated so that teachers who werent even going to work got vaccinated before them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:funny how when a teachers union says kids belong in school, it feels like it must be a sneaky trick to make sure kids can't go to school

It's kind of hard to take them at face value after this year.

I’m not sure I blame them for not wanting to go in before there was a vaccine. I didn’t want to go to my office either and I wasn’t forced to. We could have offered hazard pay to essential workers but we mostly didn’t - just told people to suck it up and go in. The pandemic was an unprecedented situation

Even though every doctor in America said it was safe to reopen schools, even without a vaccine? Even though children have a human right to an education, which they've been effectively been denied for the past year? Even though doctors and nurses and daycare workers and the pizza delivery guy and teachers at private schools and teachers at public schools outside the DMV and grocery store workers never stopped going to the office? I dont think any of them got hazard pay. Many had to wait to get vaccinated so that teachers who werent even going to work got vaccinated before them.

+1000. I will never let this happen to my child again- it was incredibly harmful to them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am so tired of people pointing out that the pandemic is unprecedented as an excuse for allowing anything to happen.

Then you have big problems

No. You can't say that to excuse constant bad behavior.