Early Release tomorrow?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I guess I don’t see the controversy of an advocacy group advocating for their members. Especially for a weather event that eventually led to the closing of the Federal and County government. FCPS wasn’t even the first district to call for early dismissal.

If they tried to pressure Gatehouse with threats of sick outs or other actions then there’d be a story.

My problem is pressure to do something for teachers that could endanger students. The line for advocacy really needs to be before student safety.

If a kid was struck by a falling tree yesterday would gatehouse have admitted there was advocacy from the teachers union to close? It’s different from their advocacy around snow days, where the risk calculus is the other way and gatehouse can always say this was the interest of safety. Yesterday was a bad safety call.

The union advocacy to force an early dismissal yesterday only occurred in your head. You hate teachers for some reason and it fits your narrative. It's actually laughable that you think the union has that much power.

Many other organizations closed early yesterday, including federal and local government offices. The House cancelled all votes yesterday due to the weather impact. But in FCPS, it was definitely because of the union.

+1

It didn't happen. I personally know one of the heads of one of the unions, and she has said the unions always work together as a united front, so she would know if the other union was involved in contacting Gatehouse about something.

The accusation above didn't happen. The PP is inventing stories to fit their narrative that teachers are lazy, evil, conniving, manipulative ogres.

Inventing stories to fit a narrative alright…

This one seems a lot more believable.
Unions working together? Okay.
A union deciding to fight for “2 paid hours off” while willfully endangering kids? Not so much.

[Anonymous]

The weather reports that I was following before Monday, including the Capital Weather Gang, had three lines of storms with the middle line coming through at 1 PM. I saw that report before the 3 hour delay was announced. That 1 PM storm was going to be right during the early dismissal. The last line of storms was projected for 7 PM.

There was no reason to dismiss early. They should have had a full day where the kids were in a safe place if the worse case scenario happened, ie tornados. Or they should have cancelled school altogether. Instead there were kids from the neighborhood ES walking home in the worst part of the storm because of an early dismissal.

Stupid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I guess I don’t see the controversy of an advocacy group advocating for their members. Especially for a weather event that eventually led to the closing of the Federal and County government. FCPS wasn’t even the first district to call for early dismissal.

If they tried to pressure Gatehouse with threats of sick outs or other actions then there’d be a story.

My problem is pressure to do something for teachers that could endanger students. The line for advocacy really needs to be before student safety.

If a kid was struck by a falling tree yesterday would gatehouse have admitted there was advocacy from the teachers union to close? It’s different from their advocacy around snow days, where the risk calculus is the other way and gatehouse can always say this was the interest of safety. Yesterday was a bad safety call.

The union advocacy to force an early dismissal yesterday only occurred in your head. You hate teachers for some reason and it fits your narrative. It's actually laughable that you think the union has that much power.

Many other organizations closed early yesterday, including federal and local government offices. The House cancelled all votes yesterday due to the weather impact. But in FCPS, it was definitely because of the union.

+1

It didn't happen. I personally know one of the heads of one of the unions, and she has said the unions always work together as a united front, so she would know if the other union was involved in contacting Gatehouse about something.

The accusation above didn't happen. The PP is inventing stories to fit their narrative that teachers are lazy, evil, conniving, manipulative ogres.

Inventing stories to fit a narrative alright…

This one seems a lot more believable.
Unions working together? Okay.
A union deciding to fight for “2 paid hours off” while willfully endangering kids? Not so much.

+1

Every teacher in the county knows FEA and FCFT work in unison. That is no secret.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I guess I don’t see the controversy of an advocacy group advocating for their members. Especially for a weather event that eventually led to the closing of the Federal and County government. FCPS wasn’t even the first district to call for early dismissal.

If they tried to pressure Gatehouse with threats of sick outs or other actions then there’d be a story.

My problem is pressure to do something for teachers that could endanger students. The line for advocacy really needs to be before student safety.

If a kid was struck by a falling tree yesterday would gatehouse have admitted there was advocacy from the teachers union to close? It’s different from their advocacy around snow days, where the risk calculus is the other way and gatehouse can always say this was the interest of safety. Yesterday was a bad safety call.

The union advocacy to force an early dismissal yesterday only occurred in your head. You hate teachers for some reason and it fits your narrative. It's actually laughable that you think the union has that much power.

Many other organizations closed early yesterday, including federal and local government offices. The House cancelled all votes yesterday due to the weather impact. But in FCPS, it was definitely because of the union.

+1

It didn't happen. I personally know one of the heads of one of the unions, and she has said the unions always work together as a united front, so she would know if the other union was involved in contacting Gatehouse about something.

The accusation above didn't happen. The PP is inventing stories to fit their narrative that teachers are lazy, evil, conniving, manipulative ogres.

Inventing stories to fit a narrative alright…

This one seems a lot more believable.
Unions working together? Okay.
A union deciding to fight for “2 paid hours off” while willfully endangering kids? Not so much.

+1

Every teacher in the county knows FEA and FCFT work in unison. That is no secret.

And they carefully inform this particular anonymous poster before they have any communication with gatehouse. Ha ha.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The weather reports that I was following before Monday, including the Capital Weather Gang, had three lines of storms with the middle line coming through at 1 PM. I saw that report before the 3 hour delay was announced. That 1 PM storm was going to be right during the early dismissal. The last line of storms was projected for 7 PM.

There was no reason to dismiss early. They should have had a full day where the kids were in a safe place if the worse case scenario happened, ie tornados. Or they should have cancelled school altogether. Instead there were kids from the neighborhood ES walking home in the worst part of the storm because of an early dismissal.

Stupid.

There was no *student safety* reason to dismiss early. If you realize FCPS wasn’t making their call based on student safety…less surprising. Still stupid! But less surprising.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I guess I don’t see the controversy of an advocacy group advocating for their members. Especially for a weather event that eventually led to the closing of the Federal and County government. FCPS wasn’t even the first district to call for early dismissal.

If they tried to pressure Gatehouse with threats of sick outs or other actions then there’d be a story.

My problem is pressure to do something for teachers that could endanger students. The line for advocacy really needs to be before student safety.

If a kid was struck by a falling tree yesterday would gatehouse have admitted there was advocacy from the teachers union to close? It’s different from their advocacy around snow days, where the risk calculus is the other way and gatehouse can always say this was the interest of safety. Yesterday was a bad safety call.

The union advocacy to force an early dismissal yesterday only occurred in your head. You hate teachers for some reason and it fits your narrative. It's actually laughable that you think the union has that much power.

Many other organizations closed early yesterday, including federal and local government offices. The House cancelled all votes yesterday due to the weather impact. But in FCPS, it was definitely because of the union.

+1

It didn't happen. I personally know one of the heads of one of the unions, and she has said the unions always work together as a united front, so she would know if the other union was involved in contacting Gatehouse about something.

The accusation above didn't happen. The PP is inventing stories to fit their narrative that teachers are lazy, evil, conniving, manipulative ogres.

Inventing stories to fit a narrative alright…

This one seems a lot more believable.
Unions working together? Okay.
A union deciding to fight for “2 paid hours off” while willfully endangering kids? Not so much.

+1

Every teacher in the county knows FEA and FCFT work in unison. That is no secret.

And they carefully inform this particular anonymous poster before they have any communication with gatehouse. Ha ha.

FCFT and FEA do not just “sometimes” work together; they are formally united through the collaborative group they formed-- Fairfax Education Unions -- and jointly lead all collective bargaining, contract negotiations, and other major initiatives and social advocacy.