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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I bet Jill Biden is very pro teacher because she actually knows what they do unlike you useless fools.[/quote]

None of us are anti-teacher. Quite to the contrary. We are very pro-teacher. We want them to teach where they teach best and that is in the classroom. What we are against is a public sector union engaging in absurd posturing that exploits and aggravates unfounded fears during an unprecedented global crisis in order to extract ridiculous concessions for its adult members while denying tens of thousands of children - many of which fell desperately below learning standards before this crisis - the education enjoyed by their peers in almost all of the rest of the country and undermining, for years to come, a historically-underperforming public school district that was, slowly but surely, on its way up. No one who cares about public education or children endorses what you are doing. Useless fools yourself. [/quote]

Maybe not you, but there are most certainly people on this board who are anti-teacher.  How else would you interpret posts about lazy teachers who don't care about kids, don't want to do any work, don't want to think about student need?

As a special education teacher at an east of the park school, I am certainly well aware of the needs of students, and I am not opposed to going back to in-person teaching.  I was, however, strongly opposed to this plan that was put together by the mayor and the chancellor.  At most schools, it would have given benefit to very few students and sacrificed so many more.

I also simply DID NOT believe that schools would be ready for an opening today and, if you look through the DCPS readiness checklists available online, most of the schools are, in fact, not ready to reopen.  While schools west of the park might be able to supplement financial need with PTA funds, my school does not have that.  Should it really be on me as the teacher to put my money into the school to ensure safety?  It has been 8 months, the district should have been able to get the buildings prepared (to even their own standard) by now.  I do not see any reason why students or teachers should be forced to go back to buildings until the buildings meet DCPS' own standards.[/quote]

These folks want to scream about all the kids you teach need to go back but they have the funds to supplement.  They have no idea what conditions you work under and what the needs of your school are nor are they willing to help.  Why don't they step up and donate cleaning supplies, masks, barriers, and everything else needed.  And, donate money to repair the schools.  They have no idea of what some of those school buildings are like.[/quote]

I'm going to to out on a teeny tiny limb and bet that if you said to PTA's "hey we need $XX for cleaning supplies to open", then parents would do it in a heartbeat.  Cleaning supplies are probably far less expensive than what we are paying individually for tutors, etc.

Also, there is a dashboard showing which building are ready and which are not, so all of us can know:  https://dcpsreopenstrong.com/school-plans/
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We are at a very low income school like the teacher posted.  Our PTA barely has any money and people are trying to feed their families and pay their rent.  They would probably try to donate but most simply don't have the money for it.[/quote]

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