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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teachers: you would have a lot more credibility if you stopped acting like DL is difficult. 
I’ve done both and we are all begging to be quarantined. DL is insanely easy and that’s why folks won’t give it up.

Start from a place of integrity and we can gain credibility. [/quote]

You obviously have no idea what it's like to be a teacher. DL for me and my colleagues has added hours of extra work. We haven't had a free weekend as we constantly create new content each week. We can't wait for the hybrid and simulcast teaching to end.[/quote]

We know this is true from a teacher’s POV - but your union and their s hills hate kids and scared families into staying home.  The city was ready to open until your body bag stunt you pulled last August, and your union fought tooth and nail to keep things shut down until February.  I want you to look my senior in the eye and explain why you stole their senior year, while they watch friends and cousins elsewhere enjoy being in school, activities, prom, etc.  Bottom line is that the WTU bullied the city into submission, and the still draconian health department guidelines show the complicity.  I feel for the teachers who put kids first - you are the true heroes, but what the union did is just criminal.[/quote]

It’s so sad that this is how you choose the to see the world. Nobody on an anonymous site is going to change your mind but you really need to reset your brain if you think teachers hate kids or stole time from students. None of this had anything to do with negative feelings toward children, but decades of lost trust between DCPS and the teachers. Lapsed contracts/broken promises/class size violations/refusals to update tech in the before times all add up to a teaching population that had no faith in their district to put together a reopening that would best serve children while also providing safety per cdc guidelines. DCPS is STILL not meeting their side of the MOU, but now that I’m vaccinated I can feel a little better being in a situation that did not meet CDC guidelines from January on. [/quote]

This is true but our union used children as pawns and chose scare tactic messaging to try to achieve the goals of what was probably the minority of our membership with the loudest voices. A textbook union battle that took advantage of a pandemic to try to strong arm the city. Nothing appears to have changed between the union and the city, our students lost (are still losing.)[/quote]

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