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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel like we said that before November, and then it still blew up. I'll believe it when my kids walk through the doors.[/quote]

This. DCPS always had the authority to assign teachers back to work, but they chose not to use it. This agreement gave the union some extra terms they wanted including the right for some teachers to not return to work, but didn't give DCPS anything they didn’t already have. WTU already has a no strike clause so they couldn’t strike/ refuse to return to work. That’s why the teachers who went on strike on November 2nd were so careful to frame it as not a strike, but a sick day.

Then DCPS allowed each school to come up with their own reopening plan, which was a horrible shirking of duties. Some schools have plans that include no in person learning for some grades.

I’ll believe that schools are reopening after I’ve dropped my kids off. [/quote]

I am never in the camp of defending DCPS and I am aware that with mayoral control Bowser always had the authority to order teachers to return to work, but in spite of the no strike clause the WTU was likely entertaining the idea (maybe they still are.) Of course doing so would bankrupt the union for sure and teachers would immediately lose benefits but I wouldn't be so sure that threat of strike wasn't something that was, at the very least, alluded to, during the negotiations. After the Silverman bill was withdrawn the only thing left the union has is threatening a strike, they know they lost so they signed the MOA.Honestly, teachers were better off with return to work options before the PERB lawsuit.

I am optimistic for Term 3, not all kids are going back to school. Mine probably aren't, they are middle schoolers, but having some portion of students going back into the school to learn is moving forward. I supposed I would also be skeptical if I were only thinking about my kids.[/quote]

Teachers (and parents!) were talking about striking when the chancellor was ignoring what teachers wanted a few months ago.  And sustained pressure from teachers and parents got the chancellor to back down.[/quote]

rephrase: teachers and parents fulfilled their long-desired dream of ganging up on special needs kids. [/quote]

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