WTU is demanding a "plan & policy for next week & Jan"

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Well I sure am glad we never planned for any virtual learning. Just heads right in the sand was a great choice.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't. If you spend any kind of time planning a switch to virtual, word gets around and you're crucified before you can explain, and you don't, and a dangerous variant arrives (because it was bound to happen at some point, as scientists told us), people are mad that nothing is in the works, ready to go.

Is anyone surprised that there are any public school teachers left at this point? It's like healthcare workers who quit. There is only so much terrible work conditions a human can take.

I hated virtual learning and hope we won’t have to pivot, but this may be my last year as a teacher. I’m tired of being disrespected and brow beaten by parents and gaslighted by DCPS.

Reading this board would make one think teachers are lazy and just want to work from home for whatever reason. Why on earth would you send your kids to school at all? If you think our job is so easy, YOU do it!

No one is saying the job is easy. People are saying there is a significant cohort of teachers who are not up for the task of the admittedly difficult job and would prefer to stay home because the job is much easier (and half **** and comparatively ineffective) from home

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well I sure am glad we never planned for any virtual learning. Just heads right in the sand was a great choice.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't. If you spend any kind of time planning a switch to virtual, word gets around and you're crucified before you can explain, and you don't, and a dangerous variant arrives (because it was bound to happen at some point, as scientists told us), people are mad that nothing is in the works, ready to go.

Is anyone surprised that there are any public school teachers left at this point? It's like healthcare workers who quit. There is only so much terrible work conditions a human can take.

I hated virtual learning and hope we won’t have to pivot, but this may be my last year as a teacher. I’m tired of being disrespected and brow beaten by parents and gaslighted by DCPS.

Reading this board would make one think teachers are lazy and just want to work from home for whatever reason. Why on earth would you send your kids to school at all? If you think our job is so easy, YOU do it!

No one is saying the job is easy. People are saying there is a significant cohort of teachers who are not up for the task of the admittedly difficult job and would prefer to stay home because the job is much easier (and half **** and comparatively ineffective) from home

I have utmost respect for teachers and sure as heck can’t do the proper job they should be doing and many do (though I could do a better job than some while in bed half asleep). My child has had teachers who are unbelievably amazing this pandemic and fighting to keep schools open and safe and bringing their 100% each day and teaching the kids light years better than I could ever do. Then I have one partner teacher who has subbed in quite a bit for my child’s main teacher and both her and the main teacher are a disgraceful disaster whom I have zero respect for. The partner teacher literally tweets all day long about how she hates her job and can’t stand the thought of going in and can’t wait to find a new job. And my child tells me several days per week about how sad the partner teacher is and I can see she is doing barely anything. Who in their right mind wants that person watching nevertheless teaching their kids all day? No one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well I sure am glad we never planned for any virtual learning. Just heads right in the sand was a great choice.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't. If you spend any kind of time planning a switch to virtual, word gets around and you're crucified before you can explain, and you don't, and a dangerous variant arrives (because it was bound to happen at some point, as scientists told us), people are mad that nothing is in the works, ready to go.

Is anyone surprised that there are any public school teachers left at this point? It's like healthcare workers who quit. There is only so much terrible work conditions a human can take.

I hated virtual learning and hope we won’t have to pivot, but this may be my last year as a teacher. I’m tired of being disrespected and brow beaten by parents and gaslighted by DCPS.

Reading this board would make one think teachers are lazy and just want to work from home for whatever reason. Why on earth would you send your kids to school at all? If you think our job is so easy, YOU do it!

No one is saying the job is easy. People are saying there is a significant cohort of teachers who are not up for the task of the admittedly difficult job and would prefer to stay home because the job is much easier (and half **** and comparatively ineffective) from home

What do you think the “task” of being a teacher is comprised of? Which specific things do you think some teachers are up to that others aren’t? Is it possible a large cohort can’t meet the demands because they too rigorous compared with salary?

[Anonymous]

DCPS teacher pay is extraordinarily high.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DCPS teacher pay is extraordinarily high.

Yet DCPS loses more teachers each year than any other school system in the country!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well I sure am glad we never planned for any virtual learning. Just heads right in the sand was a great choice.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't. If you spend any kind of time planning a switch to virtual, word gets around and you're crucified before you can explain, and you don't, and a dangerous variant arrives (because it was bound to happen at some point, as scientists told us), people are mad that nothing is in the works, ready to go.

Is anyone surprised that there are any public school teachers left at this point? It's like healthcare workers who quit. There is only so much terrible work conditions a human can take.

I hated virtual learning and hope we won’t have to pivot, but this may be my last year as a teacher. I’m tired of being disrespected and brow beaten by parents and gaslighted by DCPS.

Reading this board would make one think teachers are lazy and just want to work from home for whatever reason. Why on earth would you send your kids to school at all? If you think our job is so easy, YOU do it!

I’m resigning at the end of this year OR when I find a new position, whatever comes first. Reading DCUM and seeing the blatant disrespect and elitist mentalities toward my profession make this very tough decision easier.

Best of luck to you. I lasted three years in my 20s. My husband has been teaching for 20+ years and I think this will be his last year. You won’t regret it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DCPS teacher pay is extraordinarily high.

And the cost of living is extraordinarily high.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DCPS teacher pay is extraordinarily high.

And the cost of living is extraordinarily high.

I think we all experience the cost of living here. Many prople working for non-profits and government have low pay compared to the cost of living here.

[Anonymous]

All this stuff about CO is so weird. The arguments that they do nothing and produce nothing, but they're all based on what people imagine the chancellor does. These are people who are coordinating behavioral and emotional services, and doing district IT work, etc.

I constantly see complaints from teachers that CO has no idea what happens in the classroom, at the same time I see that teachers have no idea what goes on in CO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All this stuff about CO is so weird. The arguments that they do nothing and produce nothing, but they're all based on what people imagine the chancellor does. These are people who are coordinating behavioral and emotional services, and doing district IT work, etc.

I constantly see complaints from teachers that CO has no idea what happens in the classroom, at the same time I see that teachers have no idea what goes on in CO.

Lolz that’s cute that you either felt the need to defend yourself or a friend. My role has me working with multiple CO people and they can’t even help themselves from admitting how little they have to do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All this stuff about CO is so weird. The arguments that they do nothing and produce nothing, but they're all based on what people imagine the chancellor does. These are people who are coordinating behavioral and emotional services, and doing district IT work, etc.

I constantly see complaints from teachers that CO has no idea what happens in the classroom, at the same time I see that teachers have no idea what goes on in CO.

Lolz that’s cute that you either felt the need to defend yourself or a friend. My role has me working with multiple CO people and they can’t even help themselves from admitting how little they have to do.

I am pointing out an inconsistency in the logic. Teachers on this board constantly have significant misconceptions about what office work is like, as though their main source of information was TV shows.

I'm calling BS on your "friends." Give context. What department?

[Anonymous]

Like lol, the plausibility that 2 minutes after I revived a thread, there would be a teacher on here on a Saturday who happens to have multiple contacts at CO who all for some reason are open about not having work...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Like lol, the plausibility that 2 minutes after I revived a thread, there would be a teacher on here on a Saturday who happens to have multiple contacts at CO who all for some reason are open about not having work...

I’m not sure why that’s so surprising. I’m in a school based leadership position so I have “managers” at central office. Recently we had to pause a training bc my contact was getting a fridge delivered, while we were all in our buildings. Another one of my contacts comes to my school once a month and comments how surprised she is by how busy we all are

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All this stuff about CO is so weird. The arguments that they do nothing and produce nothing, but they're all based on what people imagine the chancellor does. These are people who are coordinating behavioral and emotional services, and doing district IT work, etc.

I constantly see complaints from teachers that CO has no idea what happens in the classroom, at the same time I see that teachers have no idea what goes on in CO.

Lolz that’s cute that you either felt the need to defend yourself or a friend. My role has me working with multiple CO people and they can’t even help themselves from admitting how little they have to do.

I am pointing out an inconsistency in the logic. Teachers on this board constantly have significant misconceptions about what office work is like, as though their main source of information was TV shows.

I'm calling BS on your "friends." Give context. What department?

OTL, MTSS, anyone who is in cluster “support”, people who work in teacher retention. These people work about 10-15 hours per week and good for them for finding the roles. Bad for you defending them as if they work hard

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All this stuff about CO is so weird. The arguments that they do nothing and produce nothing, but they're all based on what people imagine the chancellor does. These are people who are coordinating behavioral and emotional services, and doing district IT work, etc.

I constantly see complaints from teachers that CO has no idea what happens in the classroom, at the same time I see that teachers have no idea what goes on in CO.

Lolz that’s cute that you either felt the need to defend yourself or a friend. My role has me working with multiple CO people and they can’t even help themselves from admitting how little they have to do.

I am pointing out an inconsistency in the logic. Teachers on this board constantly have significant misconceptions about what office work is like, as though their main source of information was TV shows.

I'm calling BS on your "friends." Give context. What department?

OTL, MTSS, anyone who is in cluster “support”, people who work in teacher retention. These people work about 10-15 hours per week and good for them for finding the roles. Bad for you defending them as if they work hard

Yes. When people complain about central office, they are not taking about IT, HR, payroll, legal. There are needed areas that exist in any large organization. What we are talking about is the people who write and rewrite the same curriculum. The ones who develop materials that teachers then have to completely recreate so they actually make sense for our classrooms. The ones who come and observe our classrooms for 20 minutes a month to tell us everything we are doing wrong, without any suggestions to improve.