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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The teachers are dead set on not going back in-person this year in any way. Someone just posted to APE (which I’m a member of just to see their side, not because I fully support their positions) that she had a meeting with Libby Garvey today, who said the teachers are the biggest impediment to reopening schools.  Apparently APS is concerned if they reopen, so many teachers will refuse to return that they’ll have a teacher shortage for hybrid.  It sounds like this may be part of the reason for bringing the teachers back earlier, that APS can get a sense of how much of a problem this is in advance rather than face an effective mass walkout just ask students are arriving at the building.[/quote]

I'm sure its this.   APS thinks its teachers are going to quit en masse.  Some people suggest that is not true given that FCPS, FCCPS, PWS, LCS, have not seen this mass resignations.  This is the clearest way to find out if it is true or not.  
It's also to give them time to get ready, e.g. actually get childcare if needed, actually move back to commuting distance if needed.   
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Because of its high COL APS has 3 types of teachers:

1) young single teachers living in apartments 
2) married teachers more embedded in community who have a breadwinner husband to afford to live here 
3) older teachers who bought here in 80s and 90s and near retirement.

ALL of them are way more willing to quit than the LCPS teachers who often make up over half their households incomes [/quote]

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