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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t think teachers are the big issue. You need more teachers in the system with all the social distancing requirements. NYC said they had to double their teaching staff to make in person school work. Has DCPS made any effort to hire new teachers? They should have foreseen this and had a hiring blitz over the summer. Some teachers are high risk and cannot teach in person right now. DCPS now has a huge staffing crisis that was mostly preventable [/quote]

doubled teaching staff? No. NYC has 200k teachers. You think they doubled that? stop exaggerating. [/quote]

Actually, they have about 75k teachers as of 2018. And they have pulled it together and re-opened. DCPS is nowhere near that size - a little over 4k teachers + 3500 support staff - and here we sit. Why are the mayor, chancellor and WTU all so bad at this?[/quote]

It's actually hard to get teachers to DC, NYC is a sought after city to live despite the expense.

DC has the expense but not the city life.

Teachers also spend less out of pocket in NYC and have a more trust and since it's not the mayor who knows nothing about day to day public schools calling all the shots.

It's funny because we pay teachers more here but some really don't know anything about what it's actually like to work for DCPS. Seriously only children and some parents make it worth it.

And now those children and parents are disappointed. We need to come together and tell them we need a comprehensive hybrid plan. We need more staff, some teachers truly can only do DL, those who truly have a condition should be matched to DL only families.

I sincerely hope the union, chancellor, and mayor can stop butting heads and do what's best, do what's RIGHT.[/quote]

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