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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I watched the round-table. About half of the people were for and half against reopening, including a children's hospital manager/doctor, who was pro-reopening, as evidence was that it could be done safely.  Councilmen Grosso and Mendelsohn asked why New York is opening school fully five days a week, while DCPS has not been able to make a lot of progress. Council members Allen, White and Silverman expressed a hostility toward reopening schools and blamed the Chancellor for how poorly the process has gone. White in particular wanted a commitment from the Chancellor to not opening schools for all students this year and asked for that repeatedly. [/quote]

thanks for the summary. super disappointed in Charles Allen and Silverman. Hopefully Grosso’s view will be shared by Henderson. [/quote]

Grossing?  The man who is now going to be a partner at a firm so he can lobby for charter schools?[/quote]

I’m sorry, what? Do you think the anti-charter school stuff (driven by the union) has ANY persuasive o
power now? One consequence of the WTU behavior is to make me look much more favorably on charters.[/quote]

I don’t really care about about anti charter stuff.  My kids attend a charter school.  I’m just pointing out he is going to become a lobbyist in a month when he leaves the council for charters.  He has been a terrible lead on schools on the council. He has been useless.  I actually think he should have excused himself from this.

But go ahead and attack me as some kind of shrill.  [/quote]

So what is the relevance of him being a charter lobbyist? I’m glad he’s at least speaking sensibly about schools. Maybe the fact that he doesn’t have to think about WTU votes now should tell you something about why the other councilmembers are insisting on schools staying closed. [/quote]

My kids charter is closed.  I’m unclear how that is the unions fault. [/quote]

This gets asked all the time on DCUM. The answers are cray-cray. You need to just ignore this little problem with their alternate reality where everyone (politicians, charters, etc.) are all deathly afraid of the WTU. Just go with it and watch the same small group of crazies whip themselves up thread after thread. Think of it like performance art.[/quote]

Obviously the charter teachers can ride on the coat-tails of WTU and their supporters, to a certain extent.  As long as the council supports keeping DCPS schools closed, the charter admins are subject to VERY strong political pressure to do the same. At the same time, it's not a complete parallel, since charters were in fact willing to open up "learning hubs" to a much greater and faster extent than DCPS.  If you don't get that, you're just not a very astute observe.  Sorry! [/quote]

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