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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Her continued insistence on 3ft is worrying. Where does she think all the extra staff will come from to make smaller class sizes? Or the space, in a city? This just compounds the harms to the minority kids who are concentrated in districts still even listening to teachers unions. [/quote]

No. We are IPL with 3 feet distance. Our kinder rooms have 24 students.
The 3 feet does not matter. It just makes the classroom look like old school rows.

Classrooms can open at full capacity with 3 feet of distance. [/quote]

Actually, they cannot, particularly in crowded MS and HS in DC. My kids high school principal has already started saying if cohosting and 3 feet rules are still in place high schoolers (who haven't had a SINGLE DAY of in person learning this school year) won't be able to come back full time.

As for Weingarten: All that's changed is the framing, but read the details (3 feet spacing, new HVAC, hire new teachers for smaller class sizes, etc). She's still moving the goalposts and could care less about getting kids back in classrooms. She's lying. This is all PR. Because early polling for midterm elections is showing that school reopenings are a HUGE issue in many parts of the country where union pressure on inept officials (like Bowser) have kept schools closed.

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This! The union's latest scam is saying we want to reopen too! (We just demand all these unreasonable terms and conditions which actually preclude reopening). The difference is that many of us parents want schools to reopen NOW and with NO additional terms and conditions and in fact with terms and conditions removed (3 ft distancing, cohort rules, DC ADA regs, and CARES ACT), the way much of the rest of the nation and world have.

Screw Randi Weingarten - she's just trying to get more jobs and benefits for teachers, which is standing in the way of kids returning to school.[/quote]

Well, of course she is trying to do that. That is her job. And now that we know how vital schools are to the functioning of our society, it does make sense to reevaluate our priorities. I would be fine with paying teachers more and CEOs less. As a society we have no issue with CEOs walking away with hundreds of millions of dollars even when they do a crappy job. Capitalism has run amok and clearly doesn’t care about the working mother. [/quote]

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