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[quote]    Anonymous wrote:

I agree. The school board is dragging its feet on this.

I used to be a huge supporter of unions. I think unfortunately for teachers locally, how Covid was handled really soured the public on the school system and by association-the teachers. The extremists marching around with coffins,[b] the people who phoned it in on virtual, the teachers who refused to help kids catch up this year[/b]--a few bad apples spoilt it for the bunc[/quote]h.

Puh-leeze.
1) Show me the person in FFX Co. who "marched around with a coffin." Show me...bet you can't, because it didn't happen here in Fairfax.
2) It was impossible to "phone it in" during virtual. Impossible. It was very difficult work to teach under those conditions, and every teacher did their best. 
3) What teachers are these who "refused to help kids catch up" this year? Seriously...who did this? No one. Every teacher out there did their best this year.
PP sounds like a sour grapes person who, even under the circumstances, cannot admit that teachers have been terribly maligned and mistreated. I'll bet PP was one of the loudest voices out there at the time. [/quote]

+1 And won't recognize their own culpability in creating vitriol that increased the teacher shortage.[/quote]

Yeah, that’s been a huge factor in me questioning my career - I was stunned at the anger and teacher-blaming that happened during the pandemic.  I didn’t understand why people who clearly needed us would proceed to verbally abuse us - it seems counterintuitive.  I realized that it’s the people we need the most who are often abused the most, as if making them question their worth and self-esteem will keep them around  - women, mothers, nurses, teachers.  We are a society of bullies and many of us are in abusive  relationships, work-wise.  [/quote]

:roll: [/quote]

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