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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]100% agree.

I am tired of being screamed at by both sides for wanting a pragmatic approach to this longterm problem. The people who are arguing that we cannot open schools until a vaccine are doing a terrible disservice to all the many, many families who do not have the resources to weather a school shut down of that length. And meanwhile, the people who claim Covid is overblown and advocate for full opening with little to no precautions only undermine efforts to open schools in a responsible way.

I'm exhausted. We live across the street from our kid's school and it just sits there empty every day, a wasted resources, as the kids who should be attending it are cared for and provided educations by parents (some of whom have had to quit or scale back jobs, putting family finances at risk), in group care that pose the exact same risks of exposure as school but at greater financial cost to parents, or in-home care that also carries exposure risks. It is baffling to me. It reminds me of back in May when we were told to social distance but all the city parks were closed so we were all crowded onto sidewalks together.

I[b] do not understand why we can't have a rational conversation about how to best balance the competing risks[/b], not just Covid but also the risks of children falling behind, the risks to parents and lower-paid childcare workers of becoming the defacto early education system, and the risks to families of bearing the brunt of the Covid crisis. I really do not understand.[/quote]
There is a trust element that has been lost over the years.
Parents sent kids in sick.   A child would be picked up from school one afternoon with a high fever and back at school the next day.  The rule was 24 hours fever free - which clearly was not the case.

Parents time and again lied about the health of their child as it was inconvenient for them.   Now the stakes are a lot higher. [/quote]

This attitude is frankly what has turned me off to teachers/the WTU. If compromise is impossible, I choose Mayor Bowser over literally nothing, which is what WTU offers. At this point, I think they’d oppose opening once there’s a vaccine.[/quote]

my thoughts too. or they are using covid as a bargaining chip, which is execrable. [/quote]

A bargaining chip for what Karen? A better teaching environment? So horrible :roll: [/quote]

No, they have explicitly asked for more money, actually.[/quote]

They have their released list of asks and that is not on there.

Or you mean more money for schools? That’s fine.[/quote]

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