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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The only reason DC schools have been closed so long is because of WTU. Bowser wanted schools to reopen in August, the medical community said it was totally safe and teachers refused to go to work because they didn’t *feel* it was safe (and they’d get paid the same regardless of whether they showed up for work so it was no skin off their back). That’s the only reason schools have been closed so long even as schools in most of the rest of the country, not to mention private schools and daycares in DC, were open for business.[/quote]

Teachers did not refuse to go to work in August.  Teachers were not asked by the Union or by DCPS whether they wanted or were able to come in starting in August.  Teachers themselves had no agency in the decisions.  Schools didn’t open in August because the mayor and DCPS couldn’t get their act together to execute an opening plan.  In addition none of the other local school districts opened then.

Teachers did not get a chance to act in any capacity individually until late in the fall.  That is when the single day sick out happened.  At that point the mayor had already scrapped any plans for hybrid and changed the plan to bring in only a small number of elementary students.  Many teacher ms who participated did so because the mayors plan at that point was highly disruptive in terms of most elementary student classes getting shuffled to serve only a fraction of students in person.  This was also right as cases started climbing again.  Also the WTU legal challenges had far more to do with that plan getting scrapped than the sick out.

Teachers have no choice about being represented by the WTU.  Teachers do not vote on union actions like legal challenges.  If DCPS central and the mayor had at any point out together a solid, well communicated opening plan and stuck with it school would have happened.

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oh wtf. what a load of history-rewriting, self-serving nonsense. [/quote]

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