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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][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm basically just shocked you still have WTU officials stating that schools aren't safe for in-person instruction.  It seems increasingly devoid from reality.[/quote]

I’m also shocked that you believe this is happening. Can you find those officials because I haven’t seen anyone say that. They have been asking for repairs
And upkeep for their buildings but that is not the same as saying schools are unsafe for students [/quote]

I clicked on the tweet on the first page of this thread.  Scroll down one tweet for Fuchs saying that if Central office doesn't have to go to work in person, that suggests it isn't safe for teachers to teach in person.

She also has testimony from the beginning of the school year saying that in-person learning is unsafe.[/quote]

Here's her testimony from Aug. 23:  "It is NOT safe to return to in person instruction. Advertising it as such is a recipe for disaster."

https://www.dccoreunion.org/post/dc-core-co-chair-laura-fuchs-sboe-testimony-on-reopening[/quote]

That is from before this school year even started. Find me something that says that WTU officials are still saying schools are not safe for reopening[/quote]

Already did, above.  [/quote]

You know what?  I take it back.  I assumed badly that because the tweet on the first page of this thread was linked now, that it was a recent tweet.  It is from Oct. 7, 2020.

Mea culpa.[/quote]

How about a mea culpa from WTU? Did they say they were wrong when they said schools were unsafe? Did they apologize for parading child size coffins around? What about when they brought bodybags to the city government, labeled "your favorite teacher"? Did they apologize for forcing schools to close on Wednesday for completely needless "deep cleaning"? Did they apologize for keeping schools closed here far, far longer than they needed? Seems like WTU has a lot to apologize for. [/quote]

Howaboutism is a lot like whataboutism [/quote]

DP. The PP’s post has nothing to do with whataboutism. She isn’t countering a request from the previous poster in order to deflect. She is making the very valid point that grave mistakes were made and it would be nice to see that acknowledged by those responsible for it. [b]There will be a reckoning at some point, if not now by those culpable, it will come from those who were harmed when they grow up. [/b]I know that is an uncomfortable thought for many.[/quote]

Have to add that the bolder is both weird and kinda threatening. Are you saying that the children who learned at home for a year will rise up against their teachers? Sounds like an m night shamylan movie[/quote]

I'm the PP. The point was that someone was asking someone else to apologize for saying WTU is saying schools currently are not safe. I thought that was ironic because WTU lied about basically everything from Day 1 of the pandemic. The list of lies they told would embarrass Donald Trump. If anything, WTU should be doing the apologizing. It is such a sleazy organization. [/quote]

If they lied, they’re part of a log list of doctors, experts and politicians who wanted to keep schools and businesses closed. I think what you mean is that they used the information they had.

You can retcon this all you want, but there were reports and scientific data saying that it was both safe and unsafe to go to school. The WTU, along with the council, the Mayor, the Chancellor, and the dc parent community all were trying to figure out a hard situation at the same time.

Now, we’re all back in school and some of you are still demanding reckonings and Justice which isn’t going to happen. Move on[/quote]

Don't try to rewrite history here. The medical community was unanimous and said many, many times that kids belonged in schools and that it was safe for them to reopen. Why do you think schools basically everywhere else, outside of the DMV, were open for most if not all of last year? Because they listened to the experts. We didn't. Schools closed because of WTU. Now everyone hates WTU for what it did to their children, and WTU is trying to rewrite history, blaming it on Trump and all this other nonsense. But we all lived through what happened, and everyone saw it firsthand. [/quote]

Fauci in February: https://edsource.org/2021/in-his-own-words-dr-fauci-on-the-complexities-of-school-reopening-and-vaccinations/649581/amp
The CDC in February (responding to Biden, not trump): https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/cdc-schools-guidelines-reopen/2021/02/25/9b4d8ae8-76c2-11eb-948d-19472e683521_story.html
More CDC in February (suggesting exactly what DCPS did): https://nypost.com/2021/02/12/cdc-to-recommend-phased-school-reopening-as-covid-recedes/amp/

You don’t even need to go back to the more unknown times like summer and fall of 2020 to see that there was mixed opinions among the experts.

I’m sorry you have all this hate in your heart. Move past it you’ll feel better

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Did you even read these? They don't say what you think they say. I'm sorry everyone hates WTU. Maybe in a generation or two, they can come back from this. [/quote]
I read them all. The point is there’s arguments for and against reopening, and the complexities that went into it. It required all parties to work together, which took a long time to happen. All parties were slow to collaborate. The RCCs didn’t start at schools until January and that has nothing to do with the union and everything to do with the snail like pace of the mayor and Chancellor on collaboration and strategizing reopening.

At my smaller school it still took 3 months of meetings to get everything in place for a partial term 4 reopening. It wasn’t a snap your fingers and everyone come back to school situation. It was a process and many teachers, including some who are WTU leaders, were on board to come back. If you really hate the WTU you also hate the teachers who chose to come back which really makes no sense at all [/quote]

D.C. was one of the very last places in America, if not the entire world, to allow kids back in schools. [/quote]

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