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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]Cannot vote for any candidate endorsed by the WTU. [/quote]

So you hate teachers then?[/quote]

NP. I hate the WTU. I think they are crooked. They are a detriment to our kids' education. I also love teachers.

If you can't differentiate between teachers and the WTU then...you probably collect a paycheck from the WTU.  [/quote]

Teachers are the WTU. So yes you hate teachers.[/quote]

The self delusion of some people is really astonishing. To claim you don’t hate teachers but hate the WTU is not only wild, but completely divorced from reality. WTU represents 90-95% of DCPS teachers, so if said person is claiming they hate WTU, they definitely hate public school teachers at the very least.[/quote]

This 100 percent.  When posters say they hate the union, they mean they want the right to treat teachers like their servants, hover over them like the Gestapo, interfere with their ability to do their jobs, judge them for being successful or failing at what they do notwithstanding that they themselves are no more qualified to judge then vice-versa, and fire them at will.  They want the right to be adverse to teachers and not to work in tandem with that.  And that means they hate teachers, and that the WTU is necessary to protect teachers from their haters.[/quote]

Sorry, but Covid exposed a lot of teacher's unions - including WTU - for what they really are. This is all a lot of BS. And I support unions in general. [/quote]

Oh please.  The teacher's union exists to protect teachers, not students, and teachers didn't want to die.  It's not that complicated.  [/quote]

You sound like Trump trying to re-write the history of Jan. 6. [/quote]

I'm not saying that their fear was justified.  Not in hindsight, at least.  But lots of people lost their minds in the once-in-100-years pandemic.  My real point was that the teachers' union looks out for teachers, not students, and that shouldn't be a surprise to you.
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DP. It's not a surprise anymore but this is EXACTLY why many parents have decided to hate the WTU.

During the pandemic, the WTU advocated for teachers over the interests of kids and families. That's their right, but as a parent, I don't have like an organization that advocated for policies that actively hurt my kids. I can hate that organization if I want. And I do! See how that works.

You can't have it both ways. Why would I like or care about an organization that will happily throw my child under the bus?[/quote]

This is why I can't support JLG. The conduct of WTU during the pandemic was nothing short of evil, and JLG bent over backwards to do WTU's bidding. We need a mayor who will stand up to them. [/quote]

Exactly. The only reason any DC school reopened was because Bowser did eventually stand up to them. And countrywide, that's how it worked too in major urban centers.

I don't think that hating WTU is the same as "hating teachers" what ridiculousness is that. Not every teacher even agreed with what their union was doing at that time. The fact that others were stepping up as essential workers and teachers were not as per their union's direction will go down in history as shameful.

Also, the politics of unions are such that teachers have to join their union in order to access the pay rates they want and to negotiate. It does not mean they all agree uniformly with every decision made. It also means that we, the parents of schoolchildren, need to push back on this union and the mayor is the one to represent us in doing so. [/quote]

Someone in this city has to represent the interests of kids and their parents. As we saw most vividly during the pandemic, that's not WTU, and [b]if we have a mayor like JLG who backs WTU 1000 percent of the time, then parents and kids will have no say in anything. [/b][/quote]

This is the biggest problem with JLG. I don't like Bowser but she was at least willing to sometimes say no to WTU. [/quote]

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