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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]APS teacher here.  I’m a member of Arlington Parents for Education and support most of their advocacy.  I’m disappointed about what some parents are doing though.  A few days ago another APS teacher emailed families to say that learning may be uneven next month because of COVID and referenced vaccinations and masking, pointing to the Arlington website.  It was a perfectly ordinary message but rubbed some the wrong way.  Someone copied it, posted it to the FB group and then everyone dumped on it because some are against masks or vaccines, or because they think a teacher should never mention them.  Some thought it was to avoid work.   It makes me queasy to think that a well meaning message I might send would get treated that way and scorned for something that I didn’t say or intend.    I don’t think the whole group is bad or anything like that.  But be careful what you send to parents right now because you could have your message passed around that group.  [/quote]

That email was from one of the heads of the teachers unions too who is a COVID fanatic (his name was redacted but my friend’s kid received it and she was outraged too).  But he loves to ride motorcycles in his free time, as he told the W-L newspaper (one of the most dangerous activities around).

His zero COVID evangelicism is completely offputting.  We teach our kids not to wear masks, just as the majority of the country is doing. COVID is never going away and these fanatics will not quit until they ruin our children’s childhood completely trying to avoid the equivalent of a bad cold (considering they’re vaccinated and boosted).

This zero COVID fanaticism is so bizarre, and it really only seems to be a neurosis in the deepest of blue America.

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Like OP I am an APS teacher who largely supports APEs mission (I have blocked a few people there so I don’t see their toxic comments) 
The person who wrote this letter has poor judgment IMO. I don’t like how he often presents as the face of all APS staff, especially considering the low membership in AEA. He riles up the relatively small number of COVID hysterics in our educators group. I think the response in APE was about half supportive, half taking him to task and both sides had a point. [/quote]

There are fine people on both sides, huh?

What part of his message did you disagree with? [/quote]

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