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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]People are still rightfully angry that teachers refused to allow schools to open last year.  That's not going to go away for a long, long time.  I'm not dwelling on it because I need to have a good relationship with my kid's teachers and the school, but yeah -- never going to forget it.  As for vaccinations, if WTU had been more forthright off the block, we could have truly mandatory vaccines for everyone in DCPS.  WTU could have pressured DCPS to impose a vaccine mandate this summer on all adults in schools (including their own union and the other staff unions) to protect their own members AND the kids and families they purport to advocate for.  But no.  [/quote]

This is another example of the misplaced blame on teachers that is so common here. Teachers alone didn't close schools. The WTU was attempting to negotiate safety arrangements -- including vaccines -- for most of the summer. There is a long thread here in which a poster repeatedly argued that the WTU opposed a vaccine mandate and I argued that the union did not (it simply wanted to negotiate its implementation). It's possible that the announcement of the mandate was delayed because Mayor Bowser made it part of a policy that included other city workers. But, it was clear a lot earlier that the WTU would support a mandate.
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And yet, I think it's open to interpretation. I don't think the case is as black and white as you are painting it here. I don't think the people you're arguing with have a nefarious intent, but I don't think they are placing blame exactly where you do. That isn't wrong, or blaming teachers for absurd things like Nationals batting averages.[/quote]

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