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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you kidding? Charters were a mess responding to the pandemic compared to DCPS. There’s no accountability. I know so many people who lotteried for DCPS this year because their charter schools couldn’t get their heads out of their bums to come up with a reopening plan.[/quote]

right - but OP isn’t slandering PAVE because she thinks schools should have reopened sooner. Neither sector showed itself to be particularly dedicated to kids during the pandemic. Will be interesting to see how they do next year. [/quote]

I’m slandering PAVE because they’re funded by the Walton family who want to destroy public schools to cut taxes on the rich.

The two biggest state and local budget lines are schools and police and prisons.  There’s a reason the Waltons and Charles Koch fund school “reform” and prison “reform”. They don’t care about the kids or the prisoners. They just want to shrink government to cut taxes on the ultra rich (themselves.)

It’s just hard to take any school reform organization seriously if it takes money from bad actors.  Maybe PAVE will do good. Or maybe they have secretive conflicts of interest that affect what they do. We don’t know.[/quote]

you know who ACTUALLY destroyed my child's schooling for the past 1.5 years? The teacher's union.  So spare me the histrionics. [/quote]

Do I have the following details wrong? 
- The vast majority (all?) DC charter schools were closed for the entirety of last school year.
- With few exceptions, those schools do not have unionized teachers.

If those are both correct, then how did the teacher's union destroy your kid's school? Do they dictate policy for charter schools as well?[/quote]

my kid goes to DCPS. based on the union’s conduct, I have zero trust in teacher’s unions critiques of education policy. it’s all self-interest, and not an honest assessment of charters. Separately, charters have issues of their own. But certainly charters did no worse than DCPS and some did better. My sense is they were able to pivot to DL better in some cases, but were not as good at reopening as quickly as DCPS. [/quote]

I just don’t understand how people can look at the last 2 years of dcps’ inability to plan, communicate, adapt, fail to follow through on safety protocols and still think this is the fault of unions. 
“But they had a one day strike tho” [/quote]

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