VA Budget Salary Increases for Teachers

[Anonymous]

I love getting my deserved raise as a hero. I love more seeing fuming parents raging on these boards.

The fact that this is taking place on a snow day is the cherry on top 🥰

Should I open a Cabernet Sauvignon or a Merlot today?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How many teacher bashing posts can DCUM have at any given time? This board has gone to crap.

Agreed! Teachers are working 5 days a week right now! We are working just as hard as ever before. We deserve to receive cost of living and step increases AT A MINIMUM.

You have my support when all kids who want it are back in school 5 days a week.

You are ignorant trash. GTFO.

-parent

You can call me ignorant all you want. I think that says more about you than it does about me.
My spouse is a teacher and really advocating on the steps point. I tell my spouse the same thing I’m saying here - you’ll have more support for all of this once all kids are back in school. You’re the dumb one if you want to keep your head in the sand on that major public relations issue.

No, I called you ignorant because you are ignorant.

Facts:
Teachers didn't manufacture this virus that is easily spread in the air.
Teachers didn't force millions of Americans to not wear masks.
Teachers didn't force millions of Americans to not the virus seriously.
Teachers didn't cause community spread.
Teachers didn't cause the pandemic.
Teachers didn't design or build the small classrooms.
Teachers didn't create the large class sizes.

Teachers have ZERO control over the constraints of "return to school". You should be happy that any kids are in person at all FFS.

Facts: Teachers all over the country threatened to quit when told to return to school last fall.
In other parts of the country, school administrators or governors called their bluff and schools reopened. Here, they didn't.

So teachers get the credit for keeping schools closed. Yay for teachers! It worked!

Now teachers are also getting blamed for keeping schools closed. Oh.

We - the parents and community - didn't push to open schools in the fall because we recognized that this was a deadly pandemic and we weren't able to address openly schools safely. Our schools are crazy overcrowded. There were much bigger community issues - feeding kids.

Monday morning quarterback forgets what it was like in the fall.

We have vaccines now. And more kids are heading back to the buildings. See how that works? Make it safe, kids will go back.

Contrary to your narrative that schools couldn't be opened safely, Rhode Island pushed to open schools and kept them open with VERY low in-school transmission all year. And in fall our numbers were low. And they might have stayed somewhat lower if schools were open, since multiple studies have shown that kids are safer from COVID at school. Read up on some national news sources talking about COVID. This isn't hidden stuff.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Its a tough economy and unemployment is high. Many, many people are in bad financial shape. For teachers to argue that they "deserve" COL increases AND raises would be pretty tone deaf EVEN IF schools were open. With schools closed, its insane.

They are open and more kids go back within the next few weeks.

They are not open at the moment and many kids won’t even start two whole days a week until March.

Level 1 kids are back.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How many teacher bashing posts can DCUM have at any given time? This board has gone to crap.

Agreed! Teachers are working 5 days a week right now! We are working just as hard as ever before. We deserve to receive cost of living and step increases AT A MINIMUM.

You have my support when all kids who want it are back in school 5 days a week.

You are ignorant trash. GTFO.

-parent

You can call me ignorant all you want. I think that says more about you than it does about me.
My spouse is a teacher and really advocating on the steps point. I tell my spouse the same thing I’m saying here - you’ll have more support for all of this once all kids are back in school. You’re the dumb one if you want to keep your head in the sand on that major public relations issue.

No, I called you ignorant because you are ignorant.

Facts:
Teachers didn't manufacture this virus that is easily spread in the air.
Teachers didn't force millions of Americans to not wear masks.
Teachers didn't force millions of Americans to not the virus seriously.
Teachers didn't cause community spread.
Teachers didn't cause the pandemic.
Teachers didn't design or build the small classrooms.
Teachers didn't create the large class sizes.

Teachers have ZERO control over the constraints of "return to school". You should be happy that any kids are in person at all FFS.

Facts: Teachers all over the country threatened to quit when told to return to school last fall.
In other parts of the country, school administrators or governors called their bluff and schools reopened. Here, they didn't.

So teachers get the credit for keeping schools closed. Yay for teachers! It worked!

Now teachers are also getting blamed for keeping schools closed. Oh.

We - the parents and community - didn't push to open schools in the fall because we recognized that this was a deadly pandemic and we weren't able to address openly schools safely. Our schools are crazy overcrowded. There were much bigger community issues - feeding kids.

Monday morning quarterback forgets what it was like in the fall.

We have vaccines now. And more kids are heading back to the buildings. See how that works? Make it safe, kids will go back.

I pushed for kids to go back in August. I don’t forget what it was like in the fall - lower coronavirus numbers than now in fairfax county.

The game changer now is the vaccine.

Teacher vaccinated --> hybrid
Community vaccinated --> full capacity

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How many teacher bashing posts can DCUM have at any given time? This board has gone to crap.

Agreed! Teachers are working 5 days a week right now! We are working just as hard as ever before. We deserve to receive cost of living and step increases AT A MINIMUM.

You have my support when all kids who want it are back in school 5 days a week.

You are ignorant trash. GTFO.

-parent

You can call me ignorant all you want. I think that says more about you than it does about me.
My spouse is a teacher and really advocating on the steps point. I tell my spouse the same thing I’m saying here - you’ll have more support for all of this once all kids are back in school. You’re the dumb one if you want to keep your head in the sand on that major public relations issue.

No, I called you ignorant because you are ignorant.

Facts:
Teachers didn't manufacture this virus that is easily spread in the air.
Teachers didn't force millions of Americans to not wear masks.
Teachers didn't force millions of Americans to not the virus seriously.
Teachers didn't cause community spread.
Teachers didn't cause the pandemic.
Teachers didn't design or build the small classrooms.
Teachers didn't create the large class sizes.

Teachers have ZERO control over the constraints of "return to school". You should be happy that any kids are in person at all FFS.

Facts: Teachers all over the country threatened to quit when told to return to school last fall.
In other parts of the country, school administrators or governors called their bluff and schools reopened. Here, they didn't.

So teachers get the credit for keeping schools closed. Yay for teachers! It worked!

Now teachers are also getting blamed for keeping schools closed. Oh.

We - the parents and community - didn't push to open schools in the fall because we recognized that this was a deadly pandemic and we weren't able to address openly schools safely. Our schools are crazy overcrowded. There were much bigger community issues - feeding kids.

Monday morning quarterback forgets what it was like in the fall.

We have vaccines now. And more kids are heading back to the buildings. See how that works? Make it safe, kids will go back.

Contrary to your narrative that schools couldn't be opened safely, Rhode Island pushed to open schools and kept them open with VERY low in-school transmission all year. And in fall our numbers were low. And they might have stayed somewhat lower if schools were open, since multiple studies have shown that kids are safer from COVID at school. Read up on some national news sources talking about COVID. This isn't hidden stuff.

This study was available back in July/August as schools were making plans?

Monday morning quarterback.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How many teacher bashing posts can DCUM have at any given time? This board has gone to crap.

Agreed! Teachers are working 5 days a week right now! We are working just as hard as ever before. We deserve to receive cost of living and step increases AT A MINIMUM.

You have my support when all kids who want it are back in school 5 days a week.

You are ignorant trash. GTFO.

-parent

You can call me ignorant all you want. I think that says more about you than it does about me.
My spouse is a teacher and really advocating on the steps point. I tell my spouse the same thing I’m saying here - you’ll have more support for all of this once all kids are back in school. You’re the dumb one if you want to keep your head in the sand on that major public relations issue.

No, I called you ignorant because you are ignorant.

Facts:
Teachers didn't manufacture this virus that is easily spread in the air.
Teachers didn't force millions of Americans to not wear masks.
Teachers didn't force millions of Americans to not the virus seriously.
Teachers didn't cause community spread.
Teachers didn't cause the pandemic.
Teachers didn't design or build the small classrooms.
Teachers didn't create the large class sizes.

Teachers have ZERO control over the constraints of "return to school". You should be happy that any kids are in person at all FFS.

Facts: Teachers all over the country threatened to quit when told to return to school last fall.
In other parts of the country, school administrators or governors called their bluff and schools reopened. Here, they didn't.

So teachers get the credit for keeping schools closed. Yay for teachers! It worked!

Now teachers are also getting blamed for keeping schools closed. Oh.

We - the parents and community - didn't push to open schools in the fall because we recognized that this was a deadly pandemic and we weren't able to address openly schools safely. Our schools are crazy overcrowded. There were much bigger community issues - feeding kids.

Monday morning quarterback forgets what it was like in the fall.

We have vaccines now. And more kids are heading back to the buildings. See how that works? Make it safe, kids will go back.

Contrary to your narrative that schools couldn't be opened safely, Rhode Island pushed to open schools and kept them open with VERY low in-school transmission all year. And in fall our numbers were low. And they might have stayed somewhat lower if schools were open, since multiple studies have shown that kids are safer from COVID at school. Read up on some national news sources talking about COVID. This isn't hidden stuff.

This study was available back in July/August as schools were making plans?

Monday morning quarterback.

This was known by epidemiologists back in April or May of last year...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How many teacher bashing posts can DCUM have at any given time? This board has gone to crap.

Agreed! Teachers are working 5 days a week right now! We are working just as hard as ever before. We deserve to receive cost of living and step increases AT A MINIMUM.

You have my support when all kids who want it are back in school 5 days a week.

You are ignorant trash. GTFO.

-parent

You can call me ignorant all you want. I think that says more about you than it does about me.
My spouse is a teacher and really advocating on the steps point. I tell my spouse the same thing I’m saying here - you’ll have more support for all of this once all kids are back in school. You’re the dumb one if you want to keep your head in the sand on that major public relations issue.

No, I called you ignorant because you are ignorant.

Facts:
Teachers didn't manufacture this virus that is easily spread in the air.
Teachers didn't force millions of Americans to not wear masks.
Teachers didn't force millions of Americans to not the virus seriously.
Teachers didn't cause community spread.
Teachers didn't cause the pandemic.
Teachers didn't design or build the small classrooms.
Teachers didn't create the large class sizes.

Teachers have ZERO control over the constraints of "return to school". You should be happy that any kids are in person at all FFS.

Facts: Teachers all over the country threatened to quit when told to return to school last fall.
In other parts of the country, school administrators or governors called their bluff and schools reopened. Here, they didn't.

So teachers get the credit for keeping schools closed. Yay for teachers! It worked!

Now teachers are also getting blamed for keeping schools closed. Oh.

We - the parents and community - didn't push to open schools in the fall because we recognized that this was a deadly pandemic and we weren't able to address openly schools safely. Our schools are crazy overcrowded. There were much bigger community issues - feeding kids.

Monday morning quarterback forgets what it was like in the fall.

We have vaccines now. And more kids are heading back to the buildings. See how that works? Make it safe, kids will go back.

Contrary to your narrative that schools couldn't be opened safely, Rhode Island pushed to open schools and kept them open with VERY low in-school transmission all year. And in fall our numbers were low. And they might have stayed somewhat lower if schools were open, since multiple studies have shown that kids are safer from COVID at school. Read up on some national news sources talking about COVID. This isn't hidden stuff.

This study was available back in July/August as schools were making plans?

Monday morning quarterback.

This was known by epidemiologists back in April or May of last year...

Link?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How many teacher bashing posts can DCUM have at any given time? This board has gone to crap.

Agreed! Teachers are working 5 days a week right now! We are working just as hard as ever before. We deserve to receive cost of living and step increases AT A MINIMUM.

You have my support when all kids who want it are back in school 5 days a week.

You are ignorant trash. GTFO.

-parent

You can call me ignorant all you want. I think that says more about you than it does about me.
My spouse is a teacher and really advocating on the steps point. I tell my spouse the same thing I’m saying here - you’ll have more support for all of this once all kids are back in school. You’re the dumb one if you want to keep your head in the sand on that major public relations issue.

No, I called you ignorant because you are ignorant.

Facts:
Teachers didn't manufacture this virus that is easily spread in the air.
Teachers didn't force millions of Americans to not wear masks.
Teachers didn't force millions of Americans to not the virus seriously.
Teachers didn't cause community spread.
Teachers didn't cause the pandemic.
Teachers didn't design or build the small classrooms.
Teachers didn't create the large class sizes.

Teachers have ZERO control over the constraints of "return to school". You should be happy that any kids are in person at all FFS.

Facts: Teachers all over the country threatened to quit when told to return to school last fall.
In other parts of the country, school administrators or governors called their bluff and schools reopened. Here, they didn't.

So teachers get the credit for keeping schools closed. Yay for teachers! It worked!

Now teachers are also getting blamed for keeping schools closed. Oh.

We - the parents and community - didn't push to open schools in the fall because we recognized that this was a deadly pandemic and we weren't able to address openly schools safely. Our schools are crazy overcrowded. There were much bigger community issues - feeding kids.

Monday morning quarterback forgets what it was like in the fall.

We have vaccines now. And more kids are heading back to the buildings. See how that works? Make it safe, kids will go back.

Contrary to your narrative that schools couldn't be opened safely, Rhode Island pushed to open schools and kept them open with VERY low in-school transmission all year. And in fall our numbers were low. And they might have stayed somewhat lower if schools were open, since multiple studies have shown that kids are safer from COVID at school. Read up on some national news sources talking about COVID. This isn't hidden stuff.

This study was available back in July/August as schools were making plans?

Monday morning quarterback.

This was known by epidemiologists back in April or May of last year...

Link?

There's a little bit about the data in the article on Rhode Island's governor doing her best (to include offering to help parents sue school districts) to keep schools there open in-person:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/10/magazine/school-reopenings-rhode-island.html

[Anonymous]

Parent: “Please open the schools” (imagines in person learning, with a teacher, during normal school hours 5 days a week)

SB: “Sure, no problem.” (Asynchronous at home Monday. Two days of DL on offset hours in a school building. Two more days of DL at home. Checks stock price of companies that support DL software and tech. Quietly chuckles.)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How many teacher bashing posts can DCUM have at any given time? This board has gone to crap.

Agreed! Teachers are working 5 days a week right now! We are working just as hard as ever before. We deserve to receive cost of living and step increases AT A MINIMUM.

You have my support when all kids who want it are back in school 5 days a week.

You are ignorant trash. GTFO.

-parent

You can call me ignorant all you want. I think that says more about you than it does about me.
My spouse is a teacher and really advocating on the steps point. I tell my spouse the same thing I’m saying here - you’ll have more support for all of this once all kids are back in school. You’re the dumb one if you want to keep your head in the sand on that major public relations issue.

No, I called you ignorant because you are ignorant.

Facts:
Teachers didn't manufacture this virus that is easily spread in the air.
Teachers didn't force millions of Americans to not wear masks.
Teachers didn't force millions of Americans to not the virus seriously.
Teachers didn't cause community spread.
Teachers didn't cause the pandemic.
Teachers didn't design or build the small classrooms.
Teachers didn't create the large class sizes.

Teachers have ZERO control over the constraints of "return to school". You should be happy that any kids are in person at all FFS.

Facts: Teachers all over the country threatened to quit when told to return to school last fall.
In other parts of the country, school administrators or governors called their bluff and schools reopened. Here, they didn't.

So teachers get the credit for keeping schools closed. Yay for teachers! It worked!

Now teachers are also getting blamed for keeping schools closed. Oh.

We - the parents and community - didn't push to open schools in the fall because we recognized that this was a deadly pandemic and we weren't able to address openly schools safely. Our schools are crazy overcrowded. There were much bigger community issues - feeding kids.

Monday morning quarterback forgets what it was like in the fall.

We have vaccines now. And more kids are heading back to the buildings. See how that works? Make it safe, kids will go back.

Contrary to your narrative that schools couldn't be opened safely, Rhode Island pushed to open schools and kept them open with VERY low in-school transmission all year. And in fall our numbers were low. And they might have stayed somewhat lower if schools were open, since multiple studies have shown that kids are safer from COVID at school. Read up on some national news sources talking about COVID. This isn't hidden stuff.

This study was available back in July/August as schools were making plans?

Monday morning quarterback.

This was known by epidemiologists back in April or May of last year...

Link?

There's a little bit about the data in the article on Rhode Island's governor doing her best (to include offering to help parents sue school districts) to keep schools there open in-person:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/10/magazine/school-reopenings-rhode-island.html

The study was from January 2021.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2775875

From your article:
"Raimondo had none of that C.D.C. research at hand when she made her decision on school openings in June; to the contrary, the safer political move would have been to leave the call, as many governors did, to local districts, given the obvious risk of coming down on the wrong side of a decision with potential serious health implications. The state brought in a Boston-based education consulting group to help manage the logistics of school openings; those consultants strongly advised Rhode Island’s board of education that the best way to manage openings was not to have them — to offer mostly remote instruction, the choice that many large urban districts eventually announced.

Many public-health experts still believed, around the time that Raimondo was deciding, that children were likely to be worrisome vectors of the virus at school, with implications for community spread. Reports in Israel pointed toward spread in schools (though later investigation revealed that safety protocols were not being followed); Ashish Jha, now dean of the School of Public Health at Brown University, predicted that in areas of high rates of Covid prevalence, if infected students went to school, “they’d spread it to their teachers and staff,” with large outbreaks in schools inevitable. At the time, encouraging research in Sweden and China suggested the possibility of safety in schools, but it was hard to know whether those studies would be relevant to large American districts like Providence or Boston, with their aging infrastructure, their relatively crowded schools, their narrow stairwells and often-inoperable windows. It seemed intuitive, to many parents and teachers, that schools would be significant sites of transmission, as they have always been known to be for influenza."


Sounds like you are full of s.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:How many teacher bashing posts can DCUM have at any given time? This board has gone to crap.

Agreed! Teachers are working 5 days a week right now! We are working just as hard as ever before. We deserve to receive cost of living and step increases AT A MINIMUM.

You have my support when all kids who want it are back in school 5 days a week.

You are ignorant trash. GTFO.

-parent

You can call me ignorant all you want. I think that says more about you than it does about me.
My spouse is a teacher and really advocating on the steps point. I tell my spouse the same thing I’m saying here - you’ll have more support for all of this once all kids are back in school. You’re the dumb one if you want to keep your head in the sand on that major public relations issue.

No, I called you ignorant because you are ignorant.

Facts:
Teachers didn't manufacture this virus that is easily spread in the air.
Teachers didn't force millions of Americans to not wear masks.
Teachers didn't force millions of Americans to not the virus seriously.
Teachers didn't cause community spread.
Teachers didn't cause the pandemic.
Teachers didn't design or build the small classrooms.
Teachers didn't create the large class sizes.

Teachers have ZERO control over the constraints of "return to school". You should be happy that any kids are in person at all FFS.

Facts: Teachers all over the country threatened to quit when told to return to school last fall.
In other parts of the country, school administrators or governors called their bluff and schools reopened. Here, they didn't.

So teachers get the credit for keeping schools closed. Yay for teachers! It worked!

Now teachers are also getting blamed for keeping schools closed. Oh.

We - the parents and community - didn't push to open schools in the fall because we recognized that this was a deadly pandemic and we weren't able to address openly schools safely. Our schools are crazy overcrowded. There were much bigger community issues - feeding kids.

Monday morning quarterback forgets what it was like in the fall.

We have vaccines now. And more kids are heading back to the buildings. See how that works? Make it safe, kids will go back.

Contrary to your narrative that schools couldn't be opened safely, Rhode Island pushed to open schools and kept them open with VERY low in-school transmission all year. And in fall our numbers were low. And they might have stayed somewhat lower if schools were open, since multiple studies have shown that kids are safer from COVID at school. Read up on some national news sources talking about COVID. This isn't hidden stuff.

This study was available back in July/August as schools were making plans?

Monday morning quarterback.

This was known by epidemiologists back in April or May of last year...

Link?

There's a little bit about the data in the article on Rhode Island's governor doing her best (to include offering to help parents sue school districts) to keep schools there open in-person:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/10/magazine/school-reopenings-rhode-island.html

The study was from January 2021.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2775875

From your article:
"Raimondo had none of that C.D.C. research at hand when she made her decision on school openings in June; to the contrary, the safer political move would have been to leave the call, as many governors did, to local districts, given the obvious risk of coming down on the wrong side of a decision with potential serious health implications. The state brought in a Boston-based education consulting group to help manage the logistics of school openings; those consultants strongly advised Rhode Island’s board of education that the best way to manage openings was not to have them — to offer mostly remote instruction, the choice that many large urban districts eventually announced.

Many public-health experts still believed, around the time that Raimondo was deciding, that children were likely to be worrisome vectors of the virus at school, with implications for community spread. Reports in Israel pointed toward spread in schools (though later investigation revealed that safety protocols were not being followed); Ashish Jha, now dean of the School of Public Health at Brown University, predicted that in areas of high rates of Covid prevalence, if infected students went to school, “they’d spread it to their teachers and staff,” with large outbreaks in schools inevitable. At the time, encouraging research in Sweden and China suggested the possibility of safety in schools, but it was hard to know whether those studies would be relevant to large American districts like Providence or Boston, with their aging infrastructure, their relatively crowded schools, their narrow stairwells and often-inoperable windows. It seemed intuitive, to many parents and teachers, that schools would be significant sites of transmission, as they have always been known to be for influenza."


Sounds like you are full of s.

Look at Asia. They reopened schools very quickly because unlike flu, children are not covid vectors. We've known that from very early on.

We've known that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Contrary to your narrative that schools couldn't be opened safely, Rhode Island pushed to open schools and kept them open with VERY low in-school transmission all year. And in fall our numbers were low. And they might have stayed somewhat lower if schools were open, since multiple studies have shown that kids are safer from COVID at school. Read up on some national news sources talking about COVID. This isn't hidden stuff.

This study was available back in July/August as schools were making plans?

Monday morning quarterback.

This was known by epidemiologists back in April or May of last year...

Link?

There's a little bit about the data in the article on Rhode Island's governor doing her best (to include offering to help parents sue school districts) to keep schools there open in-person:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/10/magazine/school-reopenings-rhode-island.html

The study was from January 2021.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2775875

From your article:
"Raimondo had none of that C.D.C. research at hand when she made her decision on school openings in June; to the contrary, the safer political move would have been to leave the call, as many governors did, to local districts, given the obvious risk of coming down on the wrong side of a decision with potential serious health implications. The state brought in a Boston-based education consulting group to help manage the logistics of school openings; those consultants strongly advised Rhode Island’s board of education that the best way to manage openings was not to have them — to offer mostly remote instruction, the choice that many large urban districts eventually announced.

Many public-health experts still believed, around the time that Raimondo was deciding, that children were likely to be worrisome vectors of the virus at school, with implications for community spread. Reports in Israel pointed toward spread in schools (though later investigation revealed that safety protocols were not being followed); Ashish Jha, now dean of the School of Public Health at Brown University, predicted that in areas of high rates of Covid prevalence, if infected students went to school, “they’d spread it to their teachers and staff,” with large outbreaks in schools inevitable. At the time, encouraging research in Sweden and China suggested the possibility of safety in schools, but it was hard to know whether those studies would be relevant to large American districts like Providence or Boston, with their aging infrastructure, their relatively crowded schools, their narrow stairwells and often-inoperable windows. It seemed intuitive, to many parents and teachers, that schools would be significant sites of transmission, as they have always been known to be for influenza."


Sounds like you are full of s.

Look at Asia. They reopened schools very quickly because unlike flu, children are not covid vectors. We've known that from very early on.

We've known that.

Still waiting on "multiple studies have shown that kids are safer from COVID at school" from "epidemiologists back in April or May of last year"

Put up or shut up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ll be voting HELL NO.

Onnnnnce again for your lack of reading comprehension, You. Don't. Get. A. Vote.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:How many teacher bashing posts can DCUM have at any given time? This board has gone to crap.

Agreed! Teachers are working 5 days a week right now! We are working just as hard as ever before. We deserve to receive cost of living and step increases AT A MINIMUM.

You have my support when all kids who want it are back in school 5 days a week.

Nobody gives a crap about your "support" or lack thereof.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How many teacher bashing posts can DCUM have at any given time? This board has gone to crap.

Agreed! Teachers are working 5 days a week right now! We are working just as hard as ever before. We deserve to receive cost of living and step increases AT A MINIMUM.

My kids have only had virtual "school" four (short) days a week all year, and two hours a week last spring. You don't deserve a thing. We'll talk once schools are open again.

"We'll talk?" ROFL.

Sweetie, you have no authority and no power over teachers. Get the hell over yourself with your "we'll talk."