Lets Just Call It How It Is...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think running all the sped teachers out of schools (when there are zero applicants for the job) is the best way to get your child’s needs met.

It’s extremely hard to prove lack of progress and takes years and years. You can email the teacher and principal each and every time your child with a disability doesn’t understand something but it isn’t gonna her you want you want. You and your child will be the hot potato when they do class lists and will most likely get the weakest/newest teacher every year you remain at the school. You may think you are winning this battle but your child will have lost the war. Schools 100% do this to parents who act outrageous

And THIS is why public education is failing. THIS is why we pulled our children out and paid for private because they have special needs. The system is SO SO SO broken.

[Anonymous]

Actually we do share DNA.

[Anonymous]

This thread is bizarre to me. Yes, of course my priority is my own family. Of course! It's not anyone else's priority; it has to be mine. I put my kid before other people, including myself, all the time.

But that doesn't mean that we don't all have a ton of shared priorities. I want my kid in-person, but like the WTU and individual teachers, it is really important to me that it happen under relatively safe circumstances. Can it be 100% safe? No, of course not -- sending your kid to school will never be 100% safe. But it can be a lot safer than it currently is.

Our elementary school STILL doesn't have functioning sinks with hot water, functioning toilets, or a staff area set up with social distancing protocols. But they were going to invite students and staff back for in-person school six days from now? That doesn't make sense. And what is the plan for getting those things fixed before CARES classrooms open? I have no idea, because no on has conveyed that info to me.

I appreciate that the WTU and teachers are willing to fight for stuff like this, because I don't feel like I have a lot of power as a parent. My trump card is unenrolling my child, but that means taking on the challenge of educating my child myself (we could never pay for private, even at a parochial school or in the suburbs), and I truly believe that she is better off with a professional teacher in the public schools. So right now, the WTU is working for my interests, and for the interests of all the kids at our school. And I'm grateful to them.

Being self-interested sometimes means banding together with others who share your interests. I don't understand the attitude that we're all just out for ourselves because it's obvious to me that this is a good way for 99% of us to fail, leaving only a sliver of very privileged families to get what they need. The rest of us, teachers and students and parents, are better off working together.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I actually really love your kids. -a teacher

And yet you called out today so that my child, who had an in person slot, will DL all year. You really love my kid who is not just not learning but loosing ground in skills? Cause I feel right now like you don't and like I am on my own. Like the OP said (or I think she said - it was too long) - we are not all in this together, We are all on our own and we better start acting like it.

Teachers don't give a crap about our SN kids. That's undeniable after today's strike to protest the plan for our kids to have a fighting chance at FAPE.

So what are you going to do about it? Your sh!tbag teacher went on strike while your kid is losing ground, so you need to document your kid's teacher's poor performance. Email the Principal with all the ways your teacher has been failing your child. Every area that your child isn't up to grade level is evidence of your child not receiving FAPE and the teacher's lack of performance. Every single time your kid's teacher screws up or your kid can't do something, you email the Principal to expose the teacher's failings. Your kid can't do XYZ? Email the Principal to document that the teacher failed to teach XYZ. Give no mercy. It's what all SN parents need to do now.

Oh my God. I am a teacher who taught yesterday. I’m sorry it’s been so awful for you your child. But you are laying scorn on the wrong doorstep. Please don’t add to all the hate. I know you are deeply disappointed. But the teachers who were out today feel threatened and/or feel the plan was ineffective. Just hold on. We need something better and want ALL kids to have in person ASAP. POTUS, the Mayor AND the union have all made mistakes that have gotten us into this mess. Teacher bashing may feel good in the moment but it is very harmful to trust, morale and progress in the future. Most of us care deeply about your child.

I’m glad you feel that way. But you also need to understand how deeply hurt and desperate parents of SN kids are right now.

+1. DD has an IEP and her teacher knows she's not doing an effective job of teaching her. Yet DD's teacher went on strike yesterday, supporting DD's in person spot - her lifeline - being yanked away. It felt like a knife in the back. I 100% blame WTU and all teachers who went on strike. Don't piss on us and tell us it's raining.

STFU you hag! MY CHILD IS IN SELF CONTAINED and didn't get a spot!!! I'm glad my teacher went on strike!! It's NOT FAIR. SO FU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!