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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Good to see all the WTU members responding when they should be teaching.

Not surprising that you all are more focused on the adults in the schools rather than the kids. "Rewarding unions is more important than funding students fairly," is a great summary of your orientation.

Who cares if it means that half the kids in the city will receive fewer resources. Their parents should have sent them to the failing school down the block because the teachers there are in a union.[/quote]

Not a WTU member, not even a teacher, and I actually have beef with WTU because I blame them for keeping DCPS closed longer than it should have been during Covid.

But I do support paying teachers well. I've had kids in DCPS for 5 years and while I have lots of complaints about the school district and administration, we've had phenomenal teachers. Even the ones who were not a perfect fit for one of my kids were still fantastic teachers. And DCPS gets good quality teachers because they pay well. The district also rewards years of service and advanced education in a meaningful way. My kids have only ever had one teacher who didn't have a masters, and she was in a part-time masters program. We've had teachers who were 20 year veterans but who still learn new methods for teaching, stay up on the latest pedagogy, etc. Our school has been teaching phonics all along, for instance.

I think parents who have only ever experienced charters in DC sometimes don't realize that what they think are the problems in DCPS are not the problems. The teachers are NOT the problems in DCPS. That's a worthwhile place to spend funds.[/quote]

DCPS went back before our non-unionized charter did. Every day I sat home with my kids and watched the DCPS kids going in and I resented it very much. Any mixed feelings I had about the WTU are much more positive than the negative feelings I had about our charter. [/quote]

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