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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids’ families know I didn’t participate in the sick out this year and haven’t directed any angst my way. I’m not looking forward to spill over drama next year from families who think we all did. [/quote]

I'm a parent who feels quite strongly that keeping schools closed for more than a couple of months was a terrible policy failure and an abdication of responsibility on the part of teachers as a professional group. However, I hold no angry feelings against the individual teachers at our school. I don't know who participated in the sick-out and who didn't, because we were out of the country last fall (to go to school where they were open), and I don't feel an urge to find out. I do know who came back in term 3 and who didn't, but again I don't know or care about the individual reasons, and I know there were constraints on opening classrooms then besides teacher availability. I don't hold any grudges against individual teachers. I mean, if I knew the teachers who participated in the body bag stunt, that would be a different story, but I am not assuming it was someone from our school. I think a lot of parents are able to separate their anger at how this whole situation was handled by policy makers from their feelings about individual teachers. [/quote]

honestly, I’m not. The strike was a choice. Teachers can’t escape the consequences of that choice. I am really looking forward to new teachers next year so I can feel more trust in them. (Irrational because they themselves may have gone on strike, I know.)[/quote]

PP here and I understand. I suppose if I did know who participated in the sick-out, I would feel differently about those specific teachers. But I wouldn't automatically assume that every teacher did participate, like the teacher PP above said she feared.[/quote]

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