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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Love that they kept the Wellness Day, but scrapped PTCs. (Eyeroll....) Way to keep accountability to an absolute minimum, DC teachers' union.

Can't wait until my DC heads to her older siblings' charter...[/quote]

For the record, they didn’t ask the Union about this. If they had, I can assure you teachers would have either given up that wellness day or kept PTC. We now have to report to work on June 22nd….[/quote]

I think you're wrong - the  union would not have given up wellness day[/quote]

I absolutely believe WTU would have given up a wellness day to avoid reporting on the 22nd. I don’t believe they would have given it up for PTCs.[/quote]

No they would not.  The most vocal teachers in the union never want to give up any days off.  They also wanted school closed for a week after the snow storm.  No way WTU gives up the wellness day.[/quote]

I think it would be unfair to take away the wellness day if that’s what it is designated as. Teachers might have already planned trips or family events. However I’m confused by the wellness day in general as it doesn’t seem to work well here. Why not add a day to Thanksgiving or some other holiday. [/quote]

But it would be in lieu of extending their school year by a day. They don’t have kids on the extra day. If you polled teachers at my school on wellness day vs reporting on that Monday, they would 100% sacrifice the wellness day. Also, lots of them were planning 4 day weekends and holding PTCs at alternate times and those plans are screwed up too.[/quote]

I’ll be honest with you, I haven’t gone on the last teacher work day in years because my school doesn’t do anything that day. We turn in our check out list the last student day and we are done. So I definitely wouldn’t vote to lose our wellness day.[/quote]

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