WTU press release: teachers to vote by secret ballot to authorize strike

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Anonymous wrote:All this back and forth is pointless. Schools are in session. It is done. WTU needs to stop being obstructionists. As schools continue inperson successfully, resentment will build between IP teaching staff and virtual.

Why would resentment build?

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Anonymous wrote:All this back and forth is pointless. Schools are in session. It is done. WTU needs to stop being obstructionists. As schools continue inperson successfully, resentment will build between IP teaching staff and virtual.

Why would resentment build?

There are in person learning teachers who are in classroom with students for all but 30 minutes/day while 60ish% are teaching remotely, isn't it obvious how resentment might start to build?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:All this back and forth is pointless. Schools are in session. It is done. WTU needs to stop being obstructionists. As schools continue inperson successfully, resentment will build between IP teaching staff and virtual.

Why would resentment build?

There are in person learning teachers who are in classroom with students for all but 30 minutes/day while 60ish% are teaching remotely, isn't it obvious how resentment might start to build?

DP here. I see how some resentment could build, but I don't see how any potential resentment would be a driving force to reopen schools. I just don't see IP teachers launching a campaign to force virtual teachers back to work. We parents are going to have to push for DCPS to fully reopen.

[Anonymous]

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There should be a right to strike. Otherwise we're not living in a free society that protects workers' rights.

Also, it won't make one lick of difference to the quality of instruction anyway. We're providing in-person face-to-face instruction for the majority of the student body any time soon. Our cases, hospitalizations and deaths are just too high.

If we were truly living in a “free society”, half the teachers in the country would have not been paid for the last year since they haven’t done their jobs. And they’d now be looking for other jobs (probably without success) since most of them could have been replaced during the past year.

If we were living in a real “free society” we would it have public subsidized schools. You also would have been fired for your less than full blast work product during this pandemic. Not sure how these types of comments really help the dialogue. But continue to rant

What the hell? Teachers are now also responsible for setting back the women’s movement?!!! I’m sooooooo sick of this dumping everything on teachers!! I worked my rear end off during DL, late into the night every night. I volunteered to go back this week and have been summarily dumped on with extra responsibilities since I must not mind doing them because I volunteered. Are we also single-handed my responsible for climate change, AIDS, world hunger and poverty? Have at it folks!! But I’m done being everyone’s punching bag. This once-dedicated teacher is ready to move on. And before anyone feels the need to say it, I will be sure the door doesn’t hit me on the way out.

you know nothing about the quality of our work products. we do know something about the quality of teacher work.

I know in a free society most companies would not hire women and especially mothers. So there’s that.

The main thing that allows women to be hired in our society is that we know all the kids will be going to school and so there's no need for childcare. By changing the rules on this, teachers around the country have put us back 50 years. Now employers look at women and think of them as childcare providers again, when we'd just gotten rid of that label.

[Anonymous]

What the hell? Teachers are now also responsible for setting back the women’s movement?!!! I’m sooooooo sick of this dumping everything on teachers!! I worked my rear end off during DL, late into the night every night. I volunteered to go back this week and have been summarily dumped on with extra responsibilities since I must not mind doing them because I volunteered. Are we also single-handed my responsible for climate change, AIDS, world hunger and poverty? Have at it folks!! But I’m done being everyone’s punching bag. This once-dedicated teacher is ready to move on. And before anyone feels the need to say it, I will be sure the door doesn’t hit me on the way out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What the hell? Teachers are now also responsible for setting back the women’s movement?!!! I’m sooooooo sick of this dumping everything on teachers!! I worked my rear end off during DL, late into the night every night. I volunteered to go back this week and have been summarily dumped on with extra responsibilities since I must not mind doing them because I volunteered. Are we also single-handed my responsible for climate change, AIDS, world hunger and poverty? Have at it folks!! But I’m done being everyone’s punching bag. This once-dedicated teacher is ready to move on. And before anyone feels the need to say it, I will be sure the door doesn’t hit me on the way out.

Don’t let the crazies on DCUM get to you! Most parents know how hard you are working and how stressful this is.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
There should be a right to strike. Otherwise we're not living in a free society that protects workers' rights.

Also, it won't make one lick of difference to the quality of instruction anyway. We're providing in-person face-to-face instruction for the majority of the student body any time soon. Our cases, hospitalizations and deaths are just too high.

If we were truly living in a “free society”, half the teachers in the country would have not been paid for the last year since they haven’t done their jobs. And they’d now be looking for other jobs (probably without success) since most of them could have been replaced during the past year.

If we were living in a real “free society” we would it have public subsidized schools. You also would have been fired for your less than full blast work product during this pandemic. Not sure how these types of comments really help the dialogue. But continue to rant

you know nothing about the quality of our work products. we do know something about the quality of teacher work.

I know in a free society most companies would not hire women and especially mothers. So there’s that.

The main thing that allows women to be hired in our society is that we know all the kids will be going to school and so there's no need for childcare. By changing the rules on this, teachers around the country have put us back 50 years. Now employers look at women and think of them as childcare providers again, when we'd just gotten rid of that label.

+1. And they would be right, too. Our society just showed that it willingly lets women pick up all the slack during a year long pandemic, fail at their jobs, be fired and quit. Hiring moms is now shown to be a big risk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What the hell? Teachers are now also responsible for setting back the women’s movement?!!! I’m sooooooo sick of this dumping everything on teachers!! I worked my rear end off during DL, late into the night every night. I volunteered to go back this week and have been summarily dumped on with extra responsibilities since I must not mind doing them because I volunteered. Are we also single-handed my responsible for climate change, AIDS, world hunger and poverty? Have at it folks!! But I’m done being everyone’s punching bag. This once-dedicated teacher is ready to move on. And before anyone feels the need to say it, I will be sure the door doesn’t hit me on the way out.

goodbye. hope you can get a new job as a woman entering a new career.

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The main thing that allows women to be hired in our society is that we know all the kids will be going to school and so there's no need for childcare. By changing the rules on this, teachers around the country have put us back 50 years. Now employers look at women and think of them as childcare providers again, when we'd just gotten rid of that label.

+1. And they would be right, too. Our society just showed that it willingly lets women pick up all the slack during a year long pandemic, fail at their jobs, be fired and quit. Hiring moms is now shown to be a big risk.

I would argue that yes, the pandemic hit women's employment disproportionately to men's, and this was in some not small part due to school closures. Originally I would have blamed the pandemic, but at this point I think it's fair to say that by demanding zero risk of exposure and therefore keeping schools closed, that yes, teachers do bear some responsibility for the disproportionate economic impacts of the pandemic on women versus men. Similarly, I have had to grapple with the whether sending my kid to IP school is contributing to increased risk for teachers. Own your part.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

The main thing that allows women to be hired in our society is that we know all the kids will be going to school and so there's no need for childcare. By changing the rules on this, teachers around the country have put us back 50 years. Now employers look at women and think of them as childcare providers again, when we'd just gotten rid of that label.

+1. And they would be right, too. Our society just showed that it willingly lets women pick up all the slack during a year long pandemic, fail at their jobs, be fired and quit. Hiring moms is now shown to be a big risk.

I would argue that yes, the pandemic hit women's employment disproportionately to men's, and this was in some not small part due to school closures. Originally I would have blamed the pandemic, but at this point I think it's fair to say that by demanding zero risk of exposure and therefore keeping schools closed, that yes, teachers do bear some responsibility for the disproportionate economic impacts of the pandemic on women versus men. Similarly, I have had to grapple with the whether sending my kid to IP school is contributing to increased risk for teachers. Own your part.

agree. I’m not blaming any individual female teachers. but schools could ONLY close because society implicitly or explicitly expected moms to be able to pick up the slack without compensation or support. teacher moms included.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What the hell? Teachers are now also responsible for setting back the women’s movement?!!! I’m sooooooo sick of this dumping everything on teachers!! I worked my rear end off during DL, late into the night every night. I volunteered to go back this week and have been summarily dumped on with extra responsibilities since I must not mind doing them because I volunteered. Are we also single-handed my responsible for climate change, AIDS, world hunger and poverty? Have at it folks!! But I’m done being everyone’s punching bag. This once-dedicated teacher is ready to move on. And before anyone feels the need to say it, I will be sure the door doesn’t hit me on the way out.

first question: are you going to quit your job because someone said something you didn't like on the internet

second question: why are you on dcum