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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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). I can’t think of one… ONE… who vocally fought to keep schools virtual. They were all too busy making virtual learning WORK to waste time getting political.

You are fighting the wrong people. [b]Go after school boards and unions, the ones who actually have a voice[/b] 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]

But a [b]majority of teachers elected those unions[/b] who brought about those disastrous results for our kids.

Also, I was talking about public perception. Surely you and your close-knit circle of teacher friends may see it differently. But for better or worse, but many more parents (and the public at large) viewed teachers and their unions has having been blatantly selfish when refusing any reasonable solution to go reopen schools. Again, just thinking about the current public perception here: Now might not be an ideal time to loudly whine about wanting more money while paying no attention to how much our kids are still struggling with the fallout...

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Not in VA, where the majority don’t belong to a “union” (unless you are talking about a majority of a small group of people that belong). [/quote]

You keep talking about VA, but what about DC and MD? Also, VA teachers had their own fair share of pressure campaigns to keep schools shut.

Maybe you're 100% correct and teachers are perfect, but that doesn't change public perception: It's simply not a good look for teachers to whine so much about pay when the real focus should be on how to help students. [/quote]

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