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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As one of the PPs already mentioned, teachers and their unions fought reopening schools tooth and nail during COVID, which cased a disastrous drop in student achievement. For better or worse, by refusing any reasonable proposal to go back to work for so long, teachers lost a lot of public goodwill. So Even if many factors were at play for that leaning loss, it's just not a good look right now for teachers to keep whining how they're npt tp blame and how they deserve ever higher pay increases. How abput teachers first bring up student test scores back to pre-pandemic levels, and then we can talk about more pay?[/quote]

I see it differently. I saw teachers bending backwards to provide for students in terrible circumstances *that the teachers did not create.* I know many teachers throughout the DMV (which tends to happen when you’ve been in the profession for so long). [b]I can’t think of one… ONE… who vocally fought to keep schools virtual. They were all too busy making virtual learning WORK[/b] to waste time getting political.

You are fighting the wrong people. Go after school boards and unions, the ones who actually have a voice and, no, don’t always represent the teachers. I have spoken many times over the years to both the BOE and the union about what I consider are their poor decisions. Again: *teachers* didn’t make these decisions. You’re giving us far more power than we actually have. You are also assuming we have time to drop our busy, overburdened jobs to pick up a political fight. [/quote]

Same. We can’t think of anyone either and we are both in elementary schools. Everyone we know hated distance learning. When pooled by FCPS in the summer of 2020, we both said we preferred to teach in-person. This was when they were trying to plan a way to have some of us in schools teaching in-person while other taught virtually. They couldn’t figure out a way to make it work. I think they were trying to please everyone and couldn’t. Both of us went into the building and taught virtually from the classroom every day. At least that way I could see other people (I’d say about 25% of the teachers were there plus office staff) and had a dedicated space in which to work. Everyone was so happy when the students started coming back into the school and nobody wanted the possibility of having to teach in a hybrid model last fall. Thankfully we didn’t have to do that. [/quote]

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