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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I guess I don’t see the controversy of an advocacy group advocating for their members. Especially for a weather event that eventually led to the closing of the Federal and County government. FCPS wasn’t even the first district to call for early dismissal.

If they tried to pressure Gatehouse with threats of sick outs or other actions then there’d be a story. [/quote]

My problem is pressure to do something for teachers that could endanger students. The line for advocacy really needs to be before student safety.

If a kid was struck by a falling tree yesterday would gatehouse have admitted there was advocacy from the teachers union to close? It’s different from their advocacy around snow days, where the risk calculus is the other way and gatehouse can always say this was the interest of safety. Yesterday was a bad safety call.[/quote]

First, just because the union said something doesn’t mean Gatehouse listened.

Second, [b]these two ideas are not mutually exclusive. Safety for teachers can also be safety for students. [/b]

I don’t get your teacher hatred at all.

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But it was mutually exclusive. Dismissing early for teachers endangered students. That should really be over the line.[/quote]

Wouldn’t dismissing early then also endanger the teachers? I’m not following. They didn’t know the exact time of the storm - some reports were saying the worst would be between 3 pm and 7 pm which makes an early dismissal safer.[/quote]

Wouldn’t it also endanger the teacher children? [/quote]

Editing: teachers’ children [/quote]

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