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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]APS is finally getting with the program. It seems this thread is 95% responses by teachers if I had to guess.

Teachers, there are other teachers around the country successfully teaching. I do think there should be some kind of opt-out for teachers with immune system issues or serious complicating health factors. But for healthy normal adult teachers, let's be reasonable. You cannot stay out of the classroom until there is zero risk. The educational system is changing drastically while you sit this one out.

By pushing parents to the brink with union protests, you are losing your public school children populations and you will eventually return to a very different school framework, where parents realize public school education is less desirable and your formerly "upper-middle class" schools might look very different. Maybe smaller size public schools will be for the best, but it further segregates our society's children, which is not.

My child's in-school public school 2nd grade class (outside the DMV) had two kids at separate times catch COVID (they suspect from a soccer team, family contacts etc), and none of them transmitted it to other students in the class or teacher, or others in the school (based on the school's tracking and low numbers). Wearing masks, tracking cases, and social distancing works in schools. [/quote]

“Union protests”? There is no teacher union in VA.

This is a thread about APS. Why do you think we care about your comments?

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DP. Virginia did away with the ban on teachers unions earlier this year.  Collective bargaining starts May 1.[/quote]

Yes. And? That is several months away. 
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That doesn’t mean they won’t start soon. AEA isn’t going to give up anything now while they wait, they’ll encourage their members to hold every line possible.  And APS knows that every move they make is will also affect contract negotiations that start in May, so they have to be aware of it now as well.  Do you not know how negotiations work?  The strategy doesn’t start only once you’re sitting at the table.[/quote]

Sure. But "pushing parents to the brink with union protests" is completely false. 
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Not really.  If you just substitute “union protests” for “collective teacher protests,” pp’s point stands.  You may not like it, but splitting hairs on terminology doesn’t change the substantive point.[/quote]

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