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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am new to DCPS (first year was last year) so new this particular issue.  Has Bowser not been willing to sit at the table because their demands have been un-meetable?[/quote]

This is how contract negotiations have happened for years.  Contract expires, lots of negotiation but no one actually knows what the demands are because it’s all behind closed doors, eventually a contract is agreed to with not much change except a pay increase and teachers get back pay for the years the contract was expired.[/quote]

Thank you.  It's hard to rally support (at least for me) when we don't know what they're fighting for. I find it hard to believe that if they are making reasonable demands that Bowser would just ignore them, but again I'm new so....[/quote]

This is my 4th year in DCPS so it’s not like I’ve been here forever but I’m not sure how you can be so naive? You must work in a non title 1 school. Teachers in the very general sense love what we do and just want to feel respected, valuable, and have enough resources to teach ALL of our students. And by resources I do not mean paper and pencils, I mean social workers, paraprofessionals, etc. And better building conditions.

Of course we also want an evaluation system that is not punitive, this is coming from an HE teacher.

I suggest you do research past covid 19 as well. Money is nice of course, I can’t lie. But I think and hope we are past just accepting money for ourselves and nothing that is going to actually attract and KEEP excellent teachers.

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I am a parent and I am telling you what it looks like for someone new to the system.  Granted, I became a parent of a DCPS student during Covid and was not at all convinced that based on their demands, the WTU had the students best interests at heart, because the WTU was NOT making reasonable demands (as a PP pointed out). You're asking me to give the WTU the benefit of the doubt now after that and it's not easy to do is all I'm saying.  [/quote]

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