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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you kidding? Charters were a mess responding to the pandemic compared to DCPS. There’s no accountability. I know so many people who lotteried for DCPS this year because their charter schools couldn’t get their heads out of their bums to come up with a reopening plan.[/quote]

right - but OP isn’t slandering PAVE because she thinks schools should have reopened sooner. Neither sector showed itself to be particularly dedicated to kids during the pandemic. Will be interesting to see how they do next year. [/quote]

I’m slandering PAVE because they’re funded by the Walton family who want to destroy public schools to cut taxes on the rich.

The two biggest state and local budget lines are schools and police and prisons.  There’s a reason the Waltons and Charles Koch fund school “reform” and prison “reform”. They don’t care about the kids or the prisoners. They just want to shrink government to cut taxes on the ultra rich (themselves.)

It’s just hard to take any school reform organization seriously if it takes money from bad actors.  Maybe PAVE will do good. Or maybe they have secretive conflicts of interest that affect what they do. We don’t know.[/quote]

you know who ACTUALLY destroyed my child's schooling for the past 1.5 years? The teacher's union.  So spare me the histrionics. [/quote]

Do I have the following details wrong? 
- The vast majority (all?) DC charter schools were closed for the entirety of last school year.
- With few exceptions, those schools do not have unionized teachers.

If those are both correct, then how did the teacher's union destroy your kid's school? Do they dictate policy for charter schools as well?[/quote]

my kid goes to DCPS. based on the union’s conduct, I have zero trust in teacher’s unions critiques of education policy. it’s all self-interest, and not an honest assessment of charters. Separately, charters have issues of their own. But certainly charters did no worse than DCPS and some did better. My sense is they were able to pivot to DL better in some cases, but were not as good at reopening as quickly as DCPS. [/quote]

I just don’t understand how people can look at the last 2 years of dcps’ inability to plan, communicate, adapt, fail to follow through on safety protocols and still think this is the fault of unions. 
“But they had a one day strike tho” [/quote]

maybe because that one-day strike resulted in keeping my SN child out of school? Hard to ignore that. And no, I don’t find fault with DCPS’s communication or planning. at the end of the day they came up with a system that allowed local parent pressure to get kids back on a school-by-school basis, and that pivot was done very quickly. they did better than other urban school districts like SF, worse than NYC. There was ONE organization sharing my interest in educating my child, and that was DCPS. [/quote]

also … their adaption and safety protocols worked very well. our school had 2 covid quarantines in 2 terms - that seems quite good to me. No complaints. [/quote]

They completely abandoned asympt testing which was promised; told families one thing and schools another re: return protocols, pressured principals to not report positive cases (at my school my principal tried to cover up a positive staffer and got called out by another teacher who reported it anonymously). 
Teachers unions fought a hard line because they knew they couldn’t count on the district to keep them safe. Now that they are vaxxed and have a years worth of data from the science community, you don’t hear any noise about not returning for the fall. If the WTU tries it, I can promise you we as members wouldn’t allow it[/quote]

well, that wasn’t my experience. as much as you want to point fingers at DCPS, they reopened our school with minimal covid burden. y’all got your way - schools closed and prioritized vaccinations. maybe it’s time to be humble and accept that asserting your interests caused serious harms and lost union allies for a long time. [/quote]

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