Do DC parents still blame teacher unions for everything?

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher but this is my job. I know parents except us to always sacrifice for the greater good but at the end of the day, this is how we make a living. I like teaching and interacting with students but teachers are not respected or valued in this country and no way I’m going to be a sacrificial lamb. I’ve been back since Feb but I teach at a title 1 school and most families and kids at our school don’t feel ready to come back yet.

im afraid of flying. does that mean flying is unsafe? doctors have said a thousand times that it's safe for schools to reopen. and in fact schools in most of the rest of the country have been open every day for months, if not this entire school year. just because you're afraid doesn't mean it's not safe. you need to separate your feelings from the actual facts in the world.

I’m not afraid. I’ve been in school. But I ignore stupid parents who think they can lecture me about how to do my job.

Really hope that if you are a teacher, you don't bring that attitude to your classroom. I feel bad for your students. The only person demonstrating stupidity here is you.

The students and I get along great. No attitude with them. I always get asked for multiple college recommendations for students. It is you crazy parents I have a problem with. If you actually care about what is happening in schools, you should be advocating that teachers actually get classroom supplies on time and working laptops for kids. How should I run labs when DCPS does not provide me with lab supplies until March instead of last August? There is a reason that teachers run into the arms of WTU. It’s because they are treated so badly by DCPS.

Teachers walked away from their responsibilities to educate children during the pandemic. It was inexcusable and unforgiveable. If you think I'm going to advocate on your behalf now, you are crazy.

Private schools are readily available in the District of Columbia for teachers haters.

Many DC teachers are great. But my view of WTU is WTF?!

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher but this is my job. I know parents except us to always sacrifice for the greater good but at the end of the day, this is how we make a living. I like teaching and interacting with students but teachers are not respected or valued in this country and no way I’m going to be a sacrificial lamb. I’ve been back since Feb but I teach at a title 1 school and most families and kids at our school don’t feel ready to come back yet.

im afraid of flying. does that mean flying is unsafe? doctors have said a thousand times that it's safe for schools to reopen. and in fact schools in most of the rest of the country have been open every day for months, if not this entire school year. just because you're afraid doesn't mean it's not safe. you need to separate your feelings from the actual facts in the world.

I’m not afraid. I’ve been in school. But I ignore stupid parents who think they can lecture me about how to do my job.

Really hope that if you are a teacher, you don't bring that attitude to your classroom. I feel bad for your students. The only person demonstrating stupidity here is you.

The students and I get along great. No attitude with them. I always get asked for multiple college recommendations for students. It is you crazy parents I have a problem with. If you actually care about what is happening in schools, you should be advocating that teachers actually get classroom supplies on time and working laptops for kids. How should I run labs when DCPS does not provide me with lab supplies until March instead of last August? There is a reason that teachers run into the arms of WTU. It’s because they are treated so badly by DCPS.

Teachers walked away from their responsibilities to educate children during the pandemic. It was inexcusable and unforgiveable. If you think I'm going to advocate on your behalf now, you are crazy.

Private schools are readily available in the District of Columbia for teachers haters.

Ah yes, criticism is hate and also only the rich are allowed to have opinions about the quality of teachers.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher but this is my job. I know parents except us to always sacrifice for the greater good but at the end of the day, this is how we make a living. I like teaching and interacting with students but teachers are not respected or valued in this country and no way I’m going to be a sacrificial lamb. I’ve been back since Feb but I teach at a title 1 school and most families and kids at our school don’t feel ready to come back yet.

im afraid of flying. does that mean flying is unsafe? doctors have said a thousand times that it's safe for schools to reopen. and in fact schools in most of the rest of the country have been open every day for months, if not this entire school year. just because you're afraid doesn't mean it's not safe. you need to separate your feelings from the actual facts in the world.

I’m not afraid. I’ve been in school. But I ignore stupid parents who think they can lecture me about how to do my job.

Really hope that if you are a teacher, you don't bring that attitude to your classroom. I feel bad for your students. The only person demonstrating stupidity here is you.

The students and I get along great. No attitude with them. I always get asked for multiple college recommendations for students. It is you crazy parents I have a problem with. If you actually care about what is happening in schools, you should be advocating that teachers actually get classroom supplies on time and working laptops for kids. How should I run labs when DCPS does not provide me with lab supplies until March instead of last August? There is a reason that teachers run into the arms of WTU. It’s because they are treated so badly by DCPS.

Teachers walked away from their responsibilities to educate children during the pandemic. It was inexcusable and unforgiveable. If you think I'm going to advocate on your behalf now, you are crazy.

Don’t advocate if you don’t want to but the lack of supplies, etc., end up hurting your kids and other kids. You do you but don’t expect me to buy classroom supplies with my own money as I have done in the past because DCPS can’t get its act together. If anything, this year should have taught folks how important school is for kids and for a well functioning society. If you prefer to spend your energy on an anti-teacher crusade, it will be counter productive but obviously you have that right.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher but this is my job. I know parents except us to always sacrifice for the greater good but at the end of the day, this is how we make a living. I like teaching and interacting with students but teachers are not respected or valued in this country and no way I’m going to be a sacrificial lamb. I’ve been back since Feb but I teach at a title 1 school and most families and kids at our school don’t feel ready to come back yet.

im afraid of flying. does that mean flying is unsafe? doctors have said a thousand times that it's safe for schools to reopen. and in fact schools in most of the rest of the country have been open every day for months, if not this entire school year. just because you're afraid doesn't mean it's not safe. you need to separate your feelings from the actual facts in the world.

I’m not afraid. I’ve been in school. But I ignore stupid parents who think they can lecture me about how to do my job.

Really hope that if you are a teacher, you don't bring that attitude to your classroom. I feel bad for your students. The only person demonstrating stupidity here is you.

The students and I get along great. No attitude with them. I always get asked for multiple college recommendations for students. It is you crazy parents I have a problem with. If you actually care about what is happening in schools, you should be advocating that teachers actually get classroom supplies on time and working laptops for kids. How should I run labs when DCPS does not provide me with lab supplies until March instead of last August? There is a reason that teachers run into the arms of WTU. It’s because they are treated so badly by DCPS.

Teachers walked away from their responsibilities to educate children during the pandemic. It was inexcusable and unforgiveable. If you think I'm going to advocate on your behalf now, you are crazy.

Right? “You’re all terrible, lazy, and racist for expecting me to do the job I get paid for! Now call the mayor’s office and get me some laptops!” Oh yes, jumping right on that.

I guess it might work on the type of white woman who wants to pay $5000 to attend a dinner party to be told how bigoted and horrible she is. But even in upper NW there’s a very limited supply of those.

I teach at an upper nw school. My students’ parents were incredibly understanding when I wanted to wait until I was vaxxed to return. They nominated me for TOY for my flexibility with all the changes in virtual teaching. I’m back and me and my students are having an incredible fourth term. Its so fun to read this site and watch the crazies think they have some sort of quorum. Keep screaming into the void on your way to private school and moco.

How nice that you're actually back and students are too at your school. Many of us are still dealing with 100% DL because our kids' teachers refuse to return to the classroom and school administrators have abdicated all responsibility for educating kids in person. If that makes us "crazies," so be it. I happen to think it makes us legitimately outraged. At the mayor, the chancellor, DCPS, and, yes, the WTU and its members -- every last one of them.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher but this is my job. I know parents except us to always sacrifice for the greater good but at the end of the day, this is how we make a living. I like teaching and interacting with students but teachers are not respected or valued in this country and no way I’m going to be a sacrificial lamb. I’ve been back since Feb but I teach at a title 1 school and most families and kids at our school don’t feel ready to come back yet.

im afraid of flying. does that mean flying is unsafe? doctors have said a thousand times that it's safe for schools to reopen. and in fact schools in most of the rest of the country have been open every day for months, if not this entire school year. just because you're afraid doesn't mean it's not safe. you need to separate your feelings from the actual facts in the world.

I’m not afraid. I’ve been in school. But I ignore stupid parents who think they can lecture me about how to do my job.

Really hope that if you are a teacher, you don't bring that attitude to your classroom. I feel bad for your students. The only person demonstrating stupidity here is you.

The students and I get along great. No attitude with them. I always get asked for multiple college recommendations for students. It is you crazy parents I have a problem with. If you actually care about what is happening in schools, you should be advocating that teachers actually get classroom supplies on time and working laptops for kids. How should I run labs when DCPS does not provide me with lab supplies until March instead of last August? There is a reason that teachers run into the arms of WTU. It’s because they are treated so badly by DCPS.

Teachers walked away from their responsibilities to educate children during the pandemic. It was inexcusable and unforgiveable. If you think I'm going to advocate on your behalf now, you are crazy.

Don’t advocate if you don’t want to but the lack of supplies, etc., end up hurting your kids and other kids. You do you but don’t expect me to buy classroom supplies with my own money as I have done in the past because DCPS can’t get its act together. If anything, this year should have taught folks how important school is for kids and for a well functioning society. If you prefer to spend your energy on an anti-teacher crusade, it will be counter productive but obviously you have that right.

All that stuff seems trivial compared to how much school my kids have missed over the past year, for no good reason.

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Teachers walked away from their responsibilities to educate children during the pandemic. It was inexcusable and unforgiveable. If you think I'm going to advocate on your behalf now, you are crazy.

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Teachers walked away from their responsibilities to educate children during the pandemic. It was inexcusable and unforgiveable. If you think I'm going to advocate on your behalf now, you are crazy.

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Don't bother advocating. You have done enough to show your true colors. You have no way of knowing why teachers didn't return. Blaming them for not coming back in the middle of a pandemic to teach your angel in person to give you a break from parenting just makes you look worse than the lovechild of satan and no.45. And don't forget, you will never know why and that probably eats at you even more.

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Anonymous wrote:What would have been wrong with just giving everyone a choice? Families that want IPL should get IPL. Families that want virtual can stay virtual. So tired of the condescending sermons on both sides. The only winner was WTU fanning all this division to keep schools shut for everyone.

Because as much as people here don’t want to accept, we should not give parents the “choice” to keep their kids out of school.

School isn't buildings. Sorry. In a pandemic, distance learning IS education, and those students will graduate to the next grade after their year in distance learning.

As much as people like YOU don't want to accept, we should not (and thankfully, did not, despite all your interminable screaming) give privileged parents the "choice" to force everyone else's kids into buildings during a pandemic for the benefit of their own special, special bebes.

I can maybe understand this attitude for high school students, maybe middle. But for ECE and early elementary... school IS buildings, to some degree. Or not the buildings themselves, but the immersive experience of being in a classroom. Maybe you can learn HS English via distance learning. But the amount of experiential learning lost for kids in K-5 is massive.

I really hope that schools understand that those of us with kids in this early age group basically had to reconstruct school at home. We might have gotten some academic content via DL, but most of us were essentially homeschooling using the school materials. For people who could not afford tutors or afford/find nannies or daycare (which is most of us) we had to become teachers.

I did an OK job. Just okay. I did some things better than others. I work, so there were some very tough days/weeks/months in there. Sometimes I look back and I can't believe we did this. I am immensely proud that my child seems to have gotten through relatively on track academically and not too messed up socially/emotionally. There are definitely scars, but I worked my butt off to address them and mitigate where I could.

I know that for my kid, school is the full experience, not an online class. And I know that because that experience, or a mediocre facsimile of it, has been unfolding in my home over the last year. Any teacher of young kids who thinks they are really educating kids via DL is delusional. I educated my kid this year. Her teacher helped a little bit.

Well said. I feel the same.

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Anonymous wrote:Just settle down. People are still dying and only 50 percent of the population is vaccinated. You people in upper NW have an entirely different existence than the rest of the city and you prove it on this site every day. You don't know everything and stop blaming worker organizations that are mostly comprised of women of color for your own weird preconceptions and slated view of the world.

Sincere question here. I’m a teacher in NW who is IPL, happily. For families of color who aren’t sending kids in now, are the adults in your home vaccinated? If not, how come? If so, are you worried that your masked kids will catch it in school? I really want to understand the hesitation about sending your children to school.

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Anonymous wrote:Look, obviously unions are supposed represent the interests of their members. But it was still crass to see just how single-mindedly WTU fought any reasonable compromise to reopen. Tooth and nail, no matter how much families were suffering. That's just not a good look and it probably cost teachers quite a bit of goodwill for years to come.

Teacher here and I agree 100%! It was awful what the union did, starting last July by telling members to. It respond to a “would you be willing to return in the fall?” Non-binding survey. It set the stage for months of heel- digging. It was an embarrassment and damaging to many of us.

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Telling teachers NOT to respond

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My kids’ families know I didn’t participate in the sick out this year and haven’t directed any angst my way. I’m not looking forward to spill over drama next year from families who think we all did.

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Anonymous wrote:Telling teachers NOT to respond

What if you are a teacher and a parent?

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That is a place where DCPS could have done much better! If you want teacher parents back, provide classroom space for their children. I sympathize with ALL parents whose kids didn’t have school, leaving them in the lurch. This one should have been more obvious to DCPS than almost any other employer. Am a parent teacher too but my husband could work from home so I returned to school in February. Would have been a much tougher decision without that child care in place, I admit. But to benefit ALL students I’m pretty sure I’d have made use of DCPS care for my child so I could teach, had it been offered in any reasonable way. But I understand that I’d family leave was available and no reasonable childcare option was offered by DCPS I probably would have continued DL teaching from home too.

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Anonymous wrote:That is a place where DCPS could have done much better! If you want teacher parents back, provide classroom space for their children. I sympathize with ALL parents whose kids didn’t have school, leaving them in the lurch. This one should have been more obvious to DCPS than almost any other employer. Am a parent teacher too but my husband could work from home so I returned to school in February. Would have been a much tougher decision without that child care in place, I admit. But to benefit ALL students I’m pretty sure I’d have made use of DCPS care for my child so I could teach, had it been offered in any reasonable way. But I understand that I’d family leave was available and no reasonable childcare option was offered by DCPS I probably would have continued DL teaching from home too.

good point. but daycares were open and other essential workers did figure out childcare. that said, it would have been reasonable for DC to try to offer childcare for all DC gov essential workers. Not just teachers.