Do DC parents still blame teacher unions for everything?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC schools are not open.

Not true. I'm a teacher and we have more than 85% of students and staff back for 4 days a week.

Blame the unions for this? I don't think so.

My kid’s school is not open. Yes, I blame the union. But not just the union.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC schools are not open.

Not true. I'm a teacher and we have more than 85% of students and staff back for 4 days a week.

Blame the unions for this? I don't think so.

My kid’s school is not open. Yes, I blame the union. But not just the union.

Both my kids schools are not open. Between Deal and Wilson there are 3500 DCPS students who are learning virtually [with the exception of a very small token amount of Wilson students getting 1 class period a week.]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I never blamed the teachers unions because I’m not an ignorant MAGA asshole.

With uneducated children. A source of pride.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teachers unions have permanently alienated a good share of parents in DC. A lot of them will never forgive WTU for what it did to their families during the pandemic.

We're at the part of the story where WTU, realizing how much damage it has done to its own brand, tries to rewrite history to convince everyone that it actually had nothing to do with schools closing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teachers unions have permanently alienated a good share of parents in DC. A lot of them will never forgive WTU for what it did to their families during the pandemic.

We're at the part of the story where WTU, realizing how much damage it has done to its own brand, tries to rewrite history to convince everyone that it actually had nothing to do with schools closing.

We will miss you when you go private (we won’t)

[Anonymous]

The schools should not have been allowed to decide how they would reopen.

[Anonymous]

So I am a WTU member in the union dropped the ball in many respects. If you look at the Chicago teachers union they’ve been able to do both sides of the issue. They fought to make sure their union members were brought back to school in a safe manner. They’ve also been incredibly engage in the community making sure that community members and parents of their students get vaccines. The only thing a WTU did was say we’re not opening. I don’t disagree with it. But they could’ve done a lot more to support the community which would’ve gone along way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So I am a WTU member in the union dropped the ball in many respects. If you look at the Chicago teachers union they’ve been able to do both sides of the issue. They fought to make sure their union members were brought back to school in a safe manner. They’ve also been incredibly engage in the community making sure that community members and parents of their students get vaccines. The only thing a WTU did was say we’re not opening. I don’t disagree with it. But they could’ve done a lot more to support the community which would’ve gone along way.

Chicago's coronavirus rates were far, far higher than DC's and Chicago's schools are in much, much worse shape than ours. And yet they opened, and we didn't. Inexcusable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yep.

They're pretty much the only reason why DC ranks last nationally in getting kids back to school.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So I am a WTU member in the union dropped the ball in many respects. If you look at the Chicago teachers union they’ve been able to do both sides of the issue. They fought to make sure their union members were brought back to school in a safe manner. They’ve also been incredibly engage in the community making sure that community members and parents of their students get vaccines. The only thing a WTU did was say we’re not opening. I don’t disagree with it. But they could’ve done a lot more to support the community which would’ve gone along way.

Chicago's coronavirus rates were far, far higher than DC's and Chicago's schools are in much, much worse shape than ours. And yet they opened, and we didn't. Inexcusable.

I’ve been teaching in a dcps school since February

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So I am a WTU member in the union dropped the ball in many respects. If you look at the Chicago teachers union they’ve been able to do both sides of the issue. They fought to make sure their union members were brought back to school in a safe manner. They’ve also been incredibly engage in the community making sure that community members and parents of their students get vaccines. The only thing a WTU did was say we’re not opening. I don’t disagree with it. But they could’ve done a lot more to support the community which would’ve gone along way.

Chicago's coronavirus rates were far, far higher than DC's and Chicago's schools are in much, much worse shape than ours. And yet they opened, and we didn't. Inexcusable.

I’ve been teaching in a dcps school since February

A small fraction of kids going to school twice a week doesnt count as open. DC is dead last in the country by a lot when it comes to getting kids back in school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So I am a WTU member in the union dropped the ball in many respects. If you look at the Chicago teachers union they’ve been able to do both sides of the issue. They fought to make sure their union members were brought back to school in a safe manner. They’ve also been incredibly engage in the community making sure that community members and parents of their students get vaccines. The only thing a WTU did was say we’re not opening. I don’t disagree with it. But they could’ve done a lot more to support the community which would’ve gone along way.

Chicago's coronavirus rates were far, far higher than DC's and Chicago's schools are in much, much worse shape than ours. And yet they opened, and we didn't. Inexcusable.

I’ve been teaching in a dcps school since February

A small fraction of kids going to school twice a week doesnt count as open. DC is dead last in the country by a lot when it comes to getting kids back in school.

Our whole staff is teaching full classrooms every day except Weds AMA. Actually don’t bc y’all are bad people so I don’t really want to talk to you and just enjoy reading this to laugh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So I am a WTU member in the union dropped the ball in many respects. If you look at the Chicago teachers union they’ve been able to do both sides of the issue. They fought to make sure their union members were brought back to school in a safe manner. They’ve also been incredibly engage in the community making sure that community members and parents of their students get vaccines. The only thing a WTU did was say we’re not opening. I don’t disagree with it. But they could’ve done a lot more to support the community which would’ve gone along way.

Chicago's coronavirus rates were far, far higher than DC's and Chicago's schools are in much, much worse shape than ours. And yet they opened, and we didn't. Inexcusable.

I’ve been teaching in a dcps school since February

A small fraction of kids going to school twice a week doesnt count as open. DC is dead last in the country by a lot when it comes to getting kids back in school.

Our whole staff is teaching full classrooms every day except Weds AMA. Actually don’t bc y’all are bad people so I don’t really want to talk to you and just enjoy reading this to laugh.

only about a quarter of DCPS students attend school at least once a week. shameful. in dc, adults put themselves ahead of children -- people who are halfway to the grave put themselves ahead of kids whose lives have barely even started.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So I am a WTU member in the union dropped the ball in many respects. If you look at the Chicago teachers union they’ve been able to do both sides of the issue. They fought to make sure their union members were brought back to school in a safe manner. They’ve also been incredibly engage in the community making sure that community members and parents of their students get vaccines. The only thing a WTU did was say we’re not opening. I don’t disagree with it. But they could’ve done a lot more to support the community which would’ve gone along way.

Chicago's coronavirus rates were far, far higher than DC's and Chicago's schools are in much, much worse shape than ours. And yet they opened, and we didn't. Inexcusable.

I’ve been teaching in a dcps school since February

A small fraction of kids going to school twice a week doesnt count as open. DC is dead last in the country by a lot when it comes to getting kids back in school.

Our whole staff is teaching full classrooms every day except Weds AMA. Actually don’t bc y’all are bad people so I don’t really want to talk to you and just enjoy reading this to laugh.

Laughing because kids aren’t in school. What a strange thing for a teacher to say.

[Anonymous]

I blame:
- the union
- the mayor
- that worthless Ferebee
- the teachers themselves