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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The teachers unions advocating for "concurrent learning" resulted in them losing my respect, and my vote for their backed candidates.  They were speaking for only a minority of teachers who supported it over going back to the classroom.  My own kids' teachers ALL wanted to be back in the classroom last spring after vaccines became available.[/quote]

I didn't hear any teachers (or teacher associations--not unions yet in VA) advocating for "concurrent learning". They were advocating for schools to follow the health guidelines, and until the spring of last year, that was 6 ft distance between people (they only changed it to 3 ft around March). There was no way to do that and not do some kind of concurrent teaching. I don't think anyone thought it was ideal. I think it's what was doable at that moment in the global pandemic. It was concurrent or stay virtual. Yes, I realize that we could have just said to heck with it and sent everyone back, but there would have been tremendous pushback not only from teachers, but also from families. There was no perfect solution. You don't get perfect solutions in a global pandemic.

I didn't hear about ANY teachers or ANY teacher associations being against the idea of full 5 days a week learning this fall. It also appears that teacher associations are in support of required vaccines for all teachers now that is rolling out.

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