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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Remember when a majority of teachers refused to go to work in the fall 2020?[/b]

These are not model employees. They've shown 0 regrets about the damage they caused kids, especially the most disadvantaged.

I wish all who refused to work leave and don't let the door hit them on the way out.  They've done enough damage to our public school system and should retire or find a new career.[/quote]

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Parent here.  This comic is SO accurate.  Parents, seriously, this is how you came off.  So many parents had such a disturbing response during the crisis and an absolute disregard for the safety of our teachers.  [/quote]
As a counterpoint, there were some teachers in APS and teacher who didnt do their job during the pandemic.  The parent angst isn't entirely misplaced.  Two examples:

My daughter's teacher refused to return to the classroom in Spring 2021 after she was fully vaccinated.  My daughter would go in 2 days a week for hybrid and be taught by iPad because her teacher "felt unsafe."   Basically she didn't believe that the vaccine worked.  For a little kid who couldn't learn virtually, it was a super tough blow not to get in person instruction even after APS "reopened."

We also had issues during virtual.  There would be a full class of 7 yos on Teams and the specials teacher literally wouldn't sign in some days.  She would "forget' she had class.  It happened many times over the year and was never addressed by the administration despite complaints.

I could go on with more examples of significant issues, but will stop.

Did some teachers work really hard and do their best?  Yes, absolutely.  Did some take advantage of the lack of supervision and chaos?  Yes.  We're some irrational about returning to the classroom to the detriment of students?  Yes.

Were there issues with shitty parents? Yes, but there were also issues with shitty teachers. If you were lucky enough not to run into issues, then great for you.  For those who had issues, they were likely never addressed by the administration and those parents are still likely peeved.  Myself included.  I lost a lot of faith in APS.[/quote]

If a teacher didn't feel safe, then she/he shouldn't have come in.  If you felt safe going in then you should have volunteered as a monitor.  You didn't.  Guess in your mind it was okay for the teacher to risk her life but not okay for you to risk yours.  Loser.  No wonder your kid is having problems.[/quote]I have a job working in healthcare.  I was working tons of hours in person even before I was vaccinated.

No APS teacher was risking their life post-vaccine and with masks in spring 2021.  That's ridiculous.  [/quote]

There is a huge difference between being in a hospital room with one ill patient for 10-15 minutes at a time, and being in a room with 30 unvaccinated children for 7 hours at a time.  In a room with 30 unvaccinated children for 7 hours in a room that has poor ventilation and windows that don't open.  When your health care work conditions come close to what you expected teachers to do, then we can talk.  Until then, sit down and keep your math closed.[/quote]

Umm, I'm assuming this is a parody of an unhinged 'APS never does anything wrong' poster, right?[/quote]

???  Parody?  The teacher speaks the truth.  If you can't see it then you have a big problem.

A doctor or nurse being in a 12x15 hospital room for 10-15 minutes with a masked adult patient is vastly different from a 20x30 classroom with 30 unmasked and unvaccinated children and one teacher breathing that same air for 7 or 8 hours.  What world do you live in that you think those two situations are even remotely similar?

Don't tell teachers to do what you refuse to do yourself.

- A Parent[/quote]

Uhh, schools were open in Europe in Spring 2020 and in the US (even private schools in Arlington) in Fall 2020, all without a problem.  Schools don't exist to provide employment to teachers, they exist to educate children.

[b]If I committed to educating children for my career, I would have been there teaching for what was an incredibly tiny risk, as the data showed.[/b]  If I was nervous, I would have called my private school colleagues and other public schools teachers in the US (and would ahve found out how minimal the risk was).

There were even some APS teachers complaining about more than 2 days a week in April 2021, after they got put to the front of the vaccine line in January.

I support 0 pay raises for any APS teacher who was there during that time period.[/quote]

Liar, but the real problem here is that my personal children and parent outranked yours in my equation for who to save. [/quote]

BAM!  Well said and I agree.[/quote]

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