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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

And it’s because of educators like you that my senior never set foot in their building after March 2020.  I am well aware that the vast majority of teachers in our buildings wanted to be there and didn’t agree with the union.  The WTU scare tactics not only kept kids out of school but eroded confidence in reopening to communities that were afraid enough already about being back in buildings.  I’ll say this too - kids at the high school level who are fully vaccinated should be able to have a normal year next year with full activities, unmasked.  We shouldn’t have to continue living in pandemic times to accommodate people who are quite frankly selfish morons who won’t go get a simple shot, particularly teachers who had the opportunity to get vaccinated before just about everyone else. [/quote]

LOL. Educators like me who have been back as long as schools have been opened? And please stop with the vaccination priority nonsense we had a small % of the small % of available shots in dc. I went out of state to get mine.

If you want to continue to blame game against a toothless organization, nobody is stopping you. I only bothered to respond bc the only way this ever gets better is if all you DCUM parents bring your indignation to people that actually matter. Bowser, ferebee, mendelson make these choices, not me or my friends.[/quote]

If you have been in the building as long as schools have been opened you had access to the vaccine at the end of the January through the partnership with Children's, by mid- February those of us who received the vaccine through that partnership (vaccine priority) were fully vaccinated.

While the union bumbled around most of the summer/fall/winter where they were successful was filing a complaint with PERB which stopped the reopening in Nov. The silly performative sick-out that followed that decision seemed to have energized some of the membership in a "fight the power" sort of posture that fueled the ridiculous #onlywhenitsafe mantra, claiming DC hospitals were "overflowing" and selectively choosing data to scare anyone who believed the crap messaging. So while the union ultimately lost its dumb pissing battle with the city and is toothless during non pandemic times, where they were successful was keeping kids from accessing a credible education for more than a year.[/quote]

kids who were 4 in 2020 are going to start 1st grade in 2021-2022 without having had any formal schooling. It’s going to be a crazy experiment, and totally tragic for a city with universal preschool aspirations. [/quote]

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