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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]APS teacher here.  I’m a member of Arlington Parents for Education and support most of their advocacy.  I’m disappointed about what some parents are doing though.  A few days ago another APS teacher emailed families to say that learning may be uneven next month because of COVID and referenced vaccinations and masking, pointing to the Arlington website.  It was a perfectly ordinary message but rubbed some the wrong way.  Someone copied it, posted it to the FB group and then everyone dumped on it because some are against masks or vaccines, or because they think a teacher should never mention them.  Some thought it was to avoid work.   It makes me queasy to think that a well meaning message I might send would get treated that way and scorned for something that I didn’t say or intend.    I don’t think the whole group is bad or anything like that.  But be careful what you send to parents right now because you could have your message passed around that group.  [/quote]

That email was from one of the heads of the teachers unions too who is a COVID fanatic (his name was redacted but my friend’s kid received it and she was outraged too).  But he loves to ride motorcycles in his free time, as he told the W-L newspaper (one of the most dangerous activities around).

His zero COVID evangelicism is completely offputting.  We teach our kids not to wear masks, just as the majority of the country is doing. COVID is never going away and these fanatics will not quit until they ruin our children’s childhood completely trying to avoid the equivalent of a bad cold (considering they’re vaccinated and boosted).

This zero COVID fanaticism is so bizarre, and it really only seems to be a neurosis in the deepest of blue America.

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Like OP I am an APS teacher who largely supports APEs mission (I have blocked a few people there so I don’t see their toxic comments) 
The person who wrote this letter has poor judgment IMO. I don’t like how he often presents as the face of all APS staff, especially considering the low membership in AEA. He riles up the relatively small number of COVID hysterics in our educators group. I think the response in APE was about half supportive, half taking him to task and both sides had a point. [/quote]

NP.  Also a teacher.  Found the thread.  That's the correct assessment.  It went both ways.  I wouldn't have sent that email.  If I did, however, I wouldn't want it posted for general commentary on FB just because someone didn't like it.  Geez.  I expect the parents wouldn't like someone taking their posts on FB and copying them over to DCUM.     [/quote]

He sent that in his professional capacity, not his personal capacity.  There is no expectation of privacy for a mass email sent out in that context.[/quote]

LOL, really?  Glad that APE is cool that stuff posted to their 1000 member group can be re-posted here.  Can't be any expectation of privacy there, either.  Good to know.  This will be fun.[/quote]

Last night, on the eve of the 1-year anniversary of January 6, one of the APEs asked if anyone knew Duran’s home address so they could riot in front of his house. Klassy, as usual, but also dangerous. They walked it back after some commenters called them out, but a fair number were defending the comment as “a joke.” [/quote]

No, there was no intention of that and you already posted with some over dramatic response on APE.  And isn't this just like when you posted that people who are unvaxxed should never get medical care again, or you are ok if they die, or if you found out your neighbor didn't get vaxxed you would immediately never speak to them and spread the info around your neighborhood FB groups and on next door?  [/quote]

You people in APE are quite...something. [/quote]

I agree…if by “something” you mean a bunch of POS. [/quote]

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