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Among other things they asked candidates for office if they supported Bowser’s decision to open when she did.

Janeese Lewis George was vague but recognized how important school is beyond education, like free meals. (I’d have liked her also to point out that actually educating the kids is also really important.) Kenyan McDuffie didn’t answer the questionnaire at all.

Jacque Patterson, Candace Nelson, Dyana Forester, and Ryan Prince (all at large candidates I think?) all would have kept kids away from education longer.

Elissa Silverman (running for at large) had a good answer I thought, agreeing that schools should open and recognizing the challenges some faced by suggesting there be virtual options. Don’t know if that was feasible or not (and if available, might have become an excuse never to go back until everything melts) but it was clearly better than the others’.
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He will not speak on schools (assuming until it’s time to debate). He has not done much for schools beyond advocating for modernizations. He’s a big business kind of guy. He will be a worse or similar Bowser 2.0.

I have heard he also wouldn’t do the questionnaire from DCPS teachers either. That’s probably why he wasn’t endorsed. [/quote]

He was never going to be endorsed by WTU anyway. WTU is run by someone who wears an n95 mask in her social media profile pictures. Of course she's picking the DSA candidate.[/quote]

Teacher here, she did NOT pick. WE (teachers and other members) voted. And what does wearing a mask has to do with anything?

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I can't stand McDuffie (I live in Ward 5 and had to deal with him when he was our Ward councilman) and support teachers and the union, and I will tell you that Laura's tone and performative liberalism is a major turn off and I really wish you guys would choose someone else.

To answer your question, wearing a medical-grade face mask in a profile photo makes no sense because it's a photograph -- even if you have a serious immune vulnerability, you could take a photo without a mask safely. So it's 100% performative and unnecessary. Since DC doesn't even really have a real MAGA contingent in our public schools, it mostly serves to antagonize families who struggled during Covid and advocated for schools to open sooner than they did, something most serious analysis now says would have been safe and appropriate. So Laura is just seeking conflict with a constituency who there is no need to antagonize because... reasons. No thank you. Good luck with her.[/quote]

Yes, exactly this.[/quote]

There wasn’t much else to choose. You may not like her tone but she has done a lot in her time as a teacher.

Just like the 2 man mayoral candidates aren’t perfect the same is unfortunately true for the teacher’s union.

But whether you love the president or not there was not one person in the meeting who brought up voting for McDuffie. We all choose JLG and one thing I will say is at the very least we will see changes for our schools. And teachers are very much hoping to change our poor eval system. Happier teachers equated to better schools.

I want someone who will focus on more than just big businesses -yes it’s important too but children should not be an afterthought!

*please note I’m on my lunch break! Don’t come after me :-)[/quote]

Her tone makes me extremely wary of WTU as a whole. People with that kind of attitude tend to be very effective at shame, to the point that anyone with a diverging opinion stops speaking up all together.

Besides the eval system, what changes do you think Janeese will bring for schools? [/quote]

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