ACPS now closed for the entire thanksgiving week

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Anonymous wrote:Teachers are snowflakes. And cowrds. This surprises no one.

And my DH is a fed that never left the office. Some of us are big boys that get the job done no matter the situation.

“Some of us” - mentions husband, not self

Plenty of feds still in my neighborhood still not back in the office yet, working from home, exercising around the neighborhood, and complaining that their kids might be around. Your “big boy” is an exception, not the rule.

Plenty of feds, unlike public school teachers, can effectively do their jobs from home.

Who’s doing it from home?!

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Some of you are crazy. Teaching is nothing like being in a health care profession. You cannot even begin to equate their level of importance. Of course hospitals cannot close. Schools? Of course they can if they don't have staff. Stop trying to pit teachers against doctors and nurses. The professions are nothing alike.

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Anonymous wrote:Thank your friends that went private. They screwed you. The districts get paid by the pupil from the state, and every one lost to private means less money. Bigger class sizes. Having to do more with less.

Eventually maybe, but not this year, maybe not next. The state isn't reducing funding based on per pupil yet - they're keeping it at 2019 levels. And the Feds are shoveling CARES and Recovery funding at the schools. It really shouldn't be a "do more with less" - there's substantially more funding available than ever before, and yet...

Well, shoot. I always thought that was what it was. Get rid of half the Central Office, then. That ain’t right.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Thank your friends that went private. They screwed you. The districts get paid by the pupil from the state, and every one lost to private means less money. Bigger class sizes. Having to do more with less.

Eventually maybe, but not this year, maybe not next. The state isn't reducing funding based on per pupil yet - they're keeping it at 2019 levels. And the Feds are shoveling CARES and Recovery funding at the schools. It really shouldn't be a "do more with less" - there's substantially more funding available than ever before, and yet...

I don’t fault anyone for choosing private school or homeschooling. It’s smart. Our public schools are terrible.

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Anonymous wrote:LOL someone had the thread joking about Virginia hospitals being shut down Thanksgiving week deleted. Guess they didn’t like that point being made!

Healthcare workers have been more stressed than anyone these past 2 years. They deserve that week off. Who cares if that means they have to close the hospitals for a few days 😉

Agreed. Being a healthcare worker is just a job — nothing more, nothing less. I deserve time off any time I want it. Who cares if my hospital is understaffed? Saving lives isn’t a calling. It’s just a job.

I hate that people have pitted teachers and healthcare workers against each other over the last 2 years. The reality is that working conditions are terrible for both groups. It's a top down problem. Schools and hospitals should probably have double the staff to ensure everyone is safe and able to do their job well. Sowing discord, especially anti-union sentiment, makes it much harder for people to get employees what they need. I think there will be a ripple effect for many years with people not thinking twice about entering either profession. I know it's already happening in education.

Nope. Can’t compare the two fields. Healthcare workers (and grocery workers, sanitation workers, firefighters, etc) behaved entirely different than teachers did during the pandemic. We all took our jobs seriously while teachers stayed home.

Oh not you again. Please. You know who was back in school buildings as soon as they let us? Teachers . I was back in with kids end of January of 2021. Have been ever since. You know who is still at home? Feds.

Not true. My husband is a fed employee. He was back in the office before teachers were.

LOL, dear. Even the DOE wasn't back in the office until a week ago and even now they're not ALL back in the office. Give me a break.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teachers are snowflakes. And cowrds. This surprises no one.

And my DH is a fed that never left the office. Some of us are big boys that get the job done no matter the situation.

“Some of us” - mentions husband, not self

Plenty of feds still in my neighborhood still not back in the office yet, working from home, exercising around the neighborhood, and complaining that their kids might be around. Your “big boy” is an exception, not the rule.

Plenty of feds, unlike public school teachers, can effectively do their jobs from home.

I’m a teacher. I agree. I just get irritated when people act like they’re all going in. They’re not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teachers are snowflakes. And cowrds. This surprises no one.

And my DH is a fed that never left the office. Some of us are big boys that get the job done no matter the situation.

“Some of us” - mentions husband, not self

Plenty of feds still in my neighborhood still not back in the office yet, working from home, exercising around the neighborhood, and complaining that their kids might be around. Your “big boy” is an exception, not the rule.

Plenty of feds, unlike public school teachers, can effectively do their jobs from home.

Who’s doing it from home?!

Um, where were you last year?

They failed our students. The complaint that there are still feds working from home is stupid. Many of them can do their jobs just as well remotely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teachers are snowflakes. And cowrds. This surprises no one.

And my DH is a fed that never left the office. Some of us are big boys that get the job done no matter the situation.

“Some of us” - mentions husband, not self

Plenty of feds still in my neighborhood still not back in the office yet, working from home, exercising around the neighborhood, and complaining that their kids might be around. Your “big boy” is an exception, not the rule.

Plenty of feds, unlike public school teachers, can effectively do their jobs from home.

+1

MY FCC general counsel DH doesn't need to be downtown to write briefs.

My DD's second 1st grade teacher needs to be by her side to effectively teach her to read.

Insane that you people are gaslighting this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LOL someone had the thread joking about Virginia hospitals being shut down Thanksgiving week deleted. Guess they didn’t like that point being made!

Healthcare workers have been more stressed than anyone these past 2 years. They deserve that week off. Who cares if that means they have to close the hospitals for a few days 😉

Agreed. Being a healthcare worker is just a job — nothing more, nothing less. I deserve time off any time I want it. Who cares if my hospital is understaffed? Saving lives isn’t a calling. It’s just a job.

I hate that people have pitted teachers and healthcare workers against each other over the last 2 years. The reality is that working conditions are terrible for both groups. It's a top down problem. Schools and hospitals should probably have double the staff to ensure everyone is safe and able to do their job well. Sowing discord, especially anti-union sentiment, makes it much harder for people to get employees what they need. I think there will be a ripple effect for many years with people not thinking twice about entering either profession. I know it's already happening in education.

Nope. Can’t compare the two fields. Healthcare workers (and grocery workers, sanitation workers, firefighters, etc) behaved entirely different than teachers did during the pandemic. We all took our jobs seriously while teachers stayed home.

Oh not you again. Please. You know who was back in school buildings as soon as they let us? Teachers . I was back in with kids end of January of 2021. Have been ever since. You know who is still at home? Feds.

Not true. My husband is a fed employee. He was back in the office before teachers were.

LOL, dear. Even the DOE wasn't back in the office until a week ago and even now they're not ALL back in the office. Give me a break.

Do you know how many fed employees there are?! Of course there are many that have been going in for a long time now.

[Anonymous]

* my second DD's 1st grade teacher

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teachers are snowflakes. And cowrds. This surprises no one.

And my DH is a fed that never left the office. Some of us are big boys that get the job done no matter the situation.

“Some of us” - mentions husband, not self

Plenty of feds still in my neighborhood still not back in the office yet, working from home, exercising around the neighborhood, and complaining that their kids might be around. Your “big boy” is an exception, not the rule.

Plenty of feds, unlike public school teachers, can effectively do their jobs from home.

Who’s doing it from home?!

Um, where were you last year?

They failed our students. The complaint that there are still feds working from home is stupid. Many of them can do their jobs just as well remotely.

No, actually, YOU failed YOUR kids. The rest of us did great. YOU, however, not at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some of you are crazy. Teaching is nothing like being in a health care profession. You cannot even begin to equate their level of importance. Of course hospitals cannot close. Schools? Of course they can if they don't have staff. Stop trying to pit teachers against doctors and nurses. The professions are nothing alike.

I’m sorry, but let’s look at reading and math scores. Please tell me how the situation isn’t critical. So glad you don’t take your job seriously.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LOL someone had the thread joking about Virginia hospitals being shut down Thanksgiving week deleted. Guess they didn’t like that point being made!

Healthcare workers have been more stressed than anyone these past 2 years. They deserve that week off. Who cares if that means they have to close the hospitals for a few days 😉

Agreed. Being a healthcare worker is just a job — nothing more, nothing less. I deserve time off any time I want it. Who cares if my hospital is understaffed? Saving lives isn’t a calling. It’s just a job.

I hate that people have pitted teachers and healthcare workers against each other over the last 2 years. The reality is that working conditions are terrible for both groups. It's a top down problem. Schools and hospitals should probably have double the staff to ensure everyone is safe and able to do their job well. Sowing discord, especially anti-union sentiment, makes it much harder for people to get employees what they need. I think there will be a ripple effect for many years with people not thinking twice about entering either profession. I know it's already happening in education.

Nope. Can’t compare the two fields. Healthcare workers (and grocery workers, sanitation workers, firefighters, etc) behaved entirely different than teachers did during the pandemic. We all took our jobs seriously while teachers stayed home.

Oh not you again. Please. You know who was back in school buildings as soon as they let us? Teachers . I was back in with kids end of January of 2021. Have been ever since. You know who is still at home? Feds.

Not true. My husband is a fed employee. He was back in the office before teachers were.

LOL, dear. Even the DOE wasn't back in the office until a week ago and even now they're not ALL back in the office. Give me a break.

Do you know how many fed employees there are?! Of course there are many that have been going in for a long time now.

And a great many more, mad that their kid being home will interfere with their middle of the workday exercise class. Next?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LOL someone had the thread joking about Virginia hospitals being shut down Thanksgiving week deleted. Guess they didn’t like that point being made!

Healthcare workers have been more stressed than anyone these past 2 years. They deserve that week off. Who cares if that means they have to close the hospitals for a few days 😉

Agreed. Being a healthcare worker is just a job — nothing more, nothing less. I deserve time off any time I want it. Who cares if my hospital is understaffed? Saving lives isn’t a calling. It’s just a job.

I hate that people have pitted teachers and healthcare workers against each other over the last 2 years. The reality is that working conditions are terrible for both groups. It's a top down problem. Schools and hospitals should probably have double the staff to ensure everyone is safe and able to do their job well. Sowing discord, especially anti-union sentiment, makes it much harder for people to get employees what they need. I think there will be a ripple effect for many years with people not thinking twice about entering either profession. I know it's already happening in education.

Nope. Can’t compare the two fields. Healthcare workers (and grocery workers, sanitation workers, firefighters, etc) behaved entirely different than teachers did during the pandemic. We all took our jobs seriously while teachers stayed home.

Oh not you again. Please. You know who was back in school buildings as soon as they let us? Teachers . I was back in with kids end of January of 2021. Have been ever since. You know who is still at home? Feds.

Not true. My husband is a fed employee. He was back in the office before teachers were.

LOL, dear. Even the DOE wasn't back in the office until a week ago and even now they're not ALL back in the office. Give me a break.

Do you know how many fed employees there are?! Of course there are many that have been going in for a long time now.

Do you realize that the DOE is the Department of Education? And that they haven't been back in their offices.

And do you realize that "many" is not all, and that "many" constitutes probably less then 20% of the entire federal workforce? They couldn't go in even if they wanted to. You're making an argument about something where you don't even know any facts. Come back when you know more and you can stop blowing smoke out of your bottom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teachers are snowflakes. And cowrds. This surprises no one.

And my DH is a fed that never left the office. Some of us are big boys that get the job done no matter the situation.

“Some of us” - mentions husband, not self

Plenty of feds still in my neighborhood still not back in the office yet, working from home, exercising around the neighborhood, and complaining that their kids might be around. Your “big boy” is an exception, not the rule.

Plenty of feds, unlike public school teachers, can effectively do their jobs from home.

Who’s doing it from home?!

Um, where were you last year?

They failed our students. The complaint that there are still feds working from home is stupid. Many of them can do their jobs just as well remotely.

No, actually, YOU failed YOUR kids. The rest of us did great. YOU, however, not at all.

100%. My kids were fine.