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

[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.

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

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she keeps spewing this in response to a thread about women who are not able to work and their husbands who are unable to provide daytime childcare for good reason. she just keeps assuming everyone is one particular type of mom who she is very, very mad at.

[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.

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

+1

she keeps spewing this in response to a thread about women who are not able to work and their husbands who are unable to provide daytime childcare for good reason. she just keeps assuming everyone is one particular type of mom who she is very, very mad at.

It really sounds like she has one mom friend who fits this particular description who she Does Not Like.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Yes it was a political choice.
Republicans and Trump made a political choice to botch the pandemic response.
They fired the freaking Pandemic Team! To save money so they could cut taxes on billionaires!

My god.
That was the political choice that screwed us.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Yes it was a political choice.
Republicans and Trump made a political choice to botch the pandemic response.
They fired the freaking Pandemic Team! To save money so they could cut taxes on billionaires!

My god.
That was the political choice that screwed us.

Yep

[Anonymous]

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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.

Yes it was a political choice.
Republicans and Trump made a political choice to botch the pandemic response.
They fired the freaking Pandemic Team! To save money so they could cut taxes on billionaires!

My god.
That was the political choice that screwed us.

Yep

Nope. The choice to keep schools closed was made by largely democratic politicians. They own it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Yes it was a political choice.
Republicans and Trump made a political choice to botch the pandemic response.
They fired the freaking Pandemic Team! To save money so they could cut taxes on billionaires!

My god.
That was the political choice that screwed us.

Yep

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Yes it was a political choice.
Republicans and Trump made a political choice to botch the pandemic response.
They fired the freaking Pandemic Team! To save money so they could cut taxes on billionaires!

My god.
That was the political choice that screwed us.

Yep

Nope. The choice to keep schools closed was made by largely democratic politicians. They own it.

This. Glad the orange guy is gone, but it's not like any President could have prevented the pandemic. I'm so sick of these WTU trolls and corrupt DC politicians trying to blame everyone but themselves for why DC public schools are closed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Yes it was a political choice.
Republicans and Trump made a political choice to botch the pandemic response.
They fired the freaking Pandemic Team! To save money so they could cut taxes on billionaires!

My god.
That was the political choice that screwed us.

Yep

Nope. The choice to keep schools closed was made by largely democratic politicians. They own it.

This. Glad the orange guy is gone, but it's not like any President could have prevented the pandemic. I'm so sick of these WTU trolls and corrupt DC politicians trying to blame everyone but themselves for why DC public schools are closed.

I’m tired of every time someone doesn’t agree with a post it is automatically a WTU troll.

[Anonymous]

The only reason DC schools have been closed so long is because of WTU. Bowser wanted schools to reopen in August, the medical community said it was totally safe and teachers refused to go to work because they didn’t *feel* it was safe (and they’d get paid the same regardless of whether they showed up for work so it was no skin off their back). That’s the only reason schools have been closed so long even as schools in most of the rest of the country, not to mention private schools and daycares in DC, were open for business.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The only reason DC schools have been closed so long is because of WTU. Bowser wanted schools to reopen in August, the medical community said it was totally safe and teachers refused to go to work because they didn’t *feel* it was safe (and they’d get paid the same regardless of whether they showed up for work so it was no skin off their back). That’s the only reason schools have been closed so long even as schools in most of the rest of the country, not to mention private schools and daycares in DC, were open for business.

I mean bowser says a lot of things. If she really wanted schools to open, she could have done that. She did it in February.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The only reason DC schools have been closed so long is because of WTU. Bowser wanted schools to reopen in August, the medical community said it was totally safe and teachers refused to go to work because they didn’t *feel* it was safe (and they’d get paid the same regardless of whether they showed up for work so it was no skin off their back). That’s the only reason schools have been closed so long even as schools in most of the rest of the country, not to mention private schools and daycares in DC, were open for business.

I mean bowser says a lot of things. If she really wanted schools to open, she could have done that. She did it in February.

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I am a teacher who would have been fine with going back in person in the fall. I never ‘refused’ to go in to work. I was never told to do so. The mayor could have told teachers to come in to school and then those who wanted to apply for FMLA, ADA could have done so. Can’t refuse to do something you were never told to do!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The only reason DC schools have been closed so long is because of WTU. Bowser wanted schools to reopen in August, the medical community said it was totally safe and teachers refused to go to work because they didn’t *feel* it was safe (and they’d get paid the same regardless of whether they showed up for work so it was no skin off their back). That’s the only reason schools have been closed so long even as schools in most of the rest of the country, not to mention private schools and daycares in DC, were open for business.

Teachers did not refuse to go to work in August. Teachers were not asked by the Union or by DCPS whether they wanted or were able to come in starting in August. Teachers themselves had no agency in the decisions. Schools didn’t open in August because the mayor and DCPS couldn’t get their act together to execute an opening plan. In addition none of the other local school districts opened then.

Teachers did not get a chance to act in any capacity individually until late in the fall. That is when the single day sick out happened. At that point the mayor had already scrapped any plans for hybrid and changed the plan to bring in only a small number of elementary students. Many teacher ms who participated did so because the mayors plan at that point was highly disruptive in terms of most elementary student classes getting shuffled to serve only a fraction of students in person. This was also right as cases started climbing again. Also the WTU legal challenges had far more to do with that plan getting scrapped than the sick out.

Teachers have no choice about being represented by the WTU. Teachers do not vote on union actions like legal challenges. If DCPS central and the mayor had at any point out together a solid, well communicated opening plan and stuck with it school would have happened.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Yes it was a political choice.
Republicans and Trump made a political choice to botch the pandemic response.
They fired the freaking Pandemic Team! To save money so they could cut taxes on billionaires!

My god.
That was the political choice that screwed us.

Yep

Nope. The choice to keep schools closed was made by largely democratic politicians. They own it.

This. Glad the orange guy is gone ….

Jared Kushner said he wanted “cities to suffer.”

We get that Republicans desperately want to blame others for complete incompetence in the White House. But let’s be real here.

[Anonymous]

- Get everyone vaccinated, so that those who can not get vaccinated for medical or religious reasons can also be safe.
- Get everyone wearing masks based on where they are in the school.
- Maintain social distance in the class room between desks. Allow kids who bring lunch to eat in the classroom or outdoors instead of crowded cafeterias.
- Leave the virtual option open for families that are travelling, kids who are unwell, for schools that need to close because of outbreaks, and for snow days.
- Leave schools open for the whole year so that closing it for some period of time due to any emergency does not result in loss of learning.
- Fix the air conditioning and heating, install solar panels, so that we can avoid airborne contagions.
- Insist on flu shots, booster shots in school for every one including the parents.

Yes, we must reopen the schools and we must also do every thing that the schools do not close. If that means vaccinations, masking, social distancing, temp checks etc then so be it.

Also, while we are doing all of this, it would be great if we could have metal detectors, more CCTV and other solutions in place to even curb gun violence and mass shootings in school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The only reason DC schools have been closed so long is because of WTU. Bowser wanted schools to reopen in August, the medical community said it was totally safe and teachers refused to go to work because they didn’t *feel* it was safe (and they’d get paid the same regardless of whether they showed up for work so it was no skin off their back). That’s the only reason schools have been closed so long even as schools in most of the rest of the country, not to mention private schools and daycares in DC, were open for business.

Funny thing, you were not exactly signing up to teach in person given how safe it was.