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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]Jeff, are you ok? It's not like you to get into the weeds like this. I say this without any sarcasm.[/quote]

I am a parent of a DCPS student so why shouldn't I get into the weeds? Beyond that, after a nearly a year and a half of seeing teachers blamed for every evil under the sun, I think I reached my limit. I am constantly amazed that posters here seem to believe that teachers are nothing but stupid lazy, incompetent, slackers (and now anti-vaxxers to boot), but want them to care and educate their children. I understand parents are frustrated -- I'm frustrated too -- but taking it out on teachers and the WTU is not the solution.
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that’s a caricature of my position here, Jeff. School closure was very harmful to my SN child, and not justified by public health knowledge in my opinion. It is not “teacher bashing” to be upset about that. It is not “WTU bashing” to ask why they are not affirmatively supporting the single most effective way to keep schools open (mandatory vax) and instead focusing on measures that shift the burden onto my child (cohorts, distancing, masking, and quarantines/closures).  And of course there was a LOT of extremely toxic parent bashing on here — I was called a “bad parent” many times, told that my SN kid’s struggles were my fault, I only wanted free daycare, etc.

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Very well said. Many parents feel similarly. I think a lot of us aren't simply blaming teachers and the union. It was institutional failure on many levels, from the mayor on down, and unfortunately the unions and many teachers used the opportunity to "never let a crisis go to waste" and abuse medical leave, etc to avoid doing their jobs. Many teachers also bent over backward to help students, but the evidence overwhelmingly shows that distance learning and school closures as DC did them were very very harmful to kids. Plenty of other public school districts in this country figured out how to safely reopen schools. DC failed. That failure should not be forgotten nor excused away.[/quote]

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