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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]JLG has been incredibly engaged with Ward 4 education activists and schools. I have my doubts McDuffie could say the same.

I don't think you have to agree with her or with him on specific topics, but I'd much rather go with an engaged mayor on education than one who is not.[/quote]

I am honestly torn. We live in Ward 4 and her office was responsive about some pool issues. But we didn't hear a word from them when we wrote to ask that she support opening schools, after over a year of covid closures. Her office instead supported a policy of closing schools anytime the citywide positivity rate went above some threshold (luckily it didn't happen). That was so misguided and they were so unresponsive about why that would be the right policy, I can't let it go.[/quote]

DC kept schools closed longer than almost any other place and even after they finally opened -- like, months after they finally reopened, JLG was still trying to reclose them because she will do literally anything WTU asks. It was unforgiveable, I think, and I will never vote for her again after that. [/quote]

I see you hate teachers, speech language pathologists, occupational therapists, physical therapists, social workers, etc.

If you hate us, home school. What’s unforgivable is the lies you people like to spout because you’d rather see a man in office who doesn’t give a single penny about public schooling.

He has been on the council for over a decade and has not pushed for anything beyond modernization (just for dcps btw) and tech. He has also not given ten anything passed.

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How can anyone possibly still defend closing schools for as long as we did? There is a generation of kids who basically never came back to school. It was a disaster.

Teachers are essential workers like nurses and doctors. Most other societies recognized this.[/quote]

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