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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Janeese Lewis George says she wants to give teachers more professional development days, so if she's elected, expect even more time out of school. [/quote]

Wait, did she really say that??? :shock: [/quote]

No, I don't think she did, but I think I know how this misinformation came to be: 
1) In some survey (I think the WTU survey), Lewis George said she supported "more differentiated professional development" ...if you read it, you can tell it means "professional development that is differentiated better" not "more professional development"
2) Matt Yglesias then tweeted a screenshot of it and said something along the lines of: Lewis George is calling for less classroom time
3) People then accepted his totally incorrect reading of it and retweeted it saying oh no she wants less class time

The bottom lines are: Lewis George didn't advocate for less classroom time - Matt Yglesias made that up, and if you're annoyed about half-day Wednesdays, that is not actually a mayoral issue because the mayor is over DCPS but doesn't set policies like that for charters and only charters do half-day Wednesdays. [/quote]

This is Janeese talking out of both sides of her mouth, per usual. She came out in favor of PD days, then, when the inevitable blowback came, pretended that didn't necessarily mean less classtime and came up with this meaningless "professional development that is differentiated better" phrasing. [/quote]

The basic trade JLG has made with the teachers union throughout her career is that she gives them carte blanche over her education policies in exchange for them giving her its get-out-the-vote operation at election time. [/quote]

I am a teacher, I was in every meeting we had with her. This is not true, stop lying because as a whole we didn’t support McDuffie, [b]who refused to meet with us or really anyone for that matter.[/b]

If you have been paying attention teachers would like less PD days or more meaningful ones. Also you want the experts who teach children to have NO say in policies? That’s a very odd stance.[/quote]

Thank you for saying this. McDuffie and his team have barely engaged on education issues. [/quote]

McDuffie has an entire education plan on his website - and it sounds good to me. https://kenyanmcduffie.com/platform/education [/quote]

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