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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How many teacher bashing posts can DCUM have at any given time?  This board has gone to crap. [/quote]

Agreed! Teachers are working 5 days a week right now! We are working just as hard as ever before. We deserve to receive cost of living and step increases AT A MINIMUM. [/quote]

So many teachers are busting their a$$ every day. 
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As a parent, I can see that from my kids' teachers. I think they deserve generous compensation for their tireless work.

As a political constituent, I'd like Richmond to trade giving teachers a generous raise for [b]tying state level school funding to being creative and getting kids in school 5 days a week[/b] (as long as they don't have a medical necessity for otherwise - if it's not medical necessity families are welcome to look into a private virtual option).  I think the school board and superintendent in my district have failed us utterly and need the power of the purse used against them.

Oh, and no taking away Right to Work either.[/quote]

That doesn't even make sense. Teachers won't have any ability to set school schedules. ????

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No, but they could move to a neighboring school district with better pay and better administrators. [/quote]

Or we can make our communities (and schools) safe *and* give teachers raises. Then we get the good teachers. Capisce?

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This fall, all adults (not just teachers) and a number of HS will be vaccinated.

Anything less than 5 day school is worth moving.  As a parent or a teacher.[/quote]

People are mostly concerned because FCPS (along with other districts around the country) have already said they will offer a "highly synchronous" virtual option. Unless that option is centralized, that means some sort of concurrent. While that could theoretically be 5 days a week, teachers across the country have indicated that concurrent is substantially harder than traditional face-to-face instruction. This year districts gave them a planning day to help handle that. It'll be more challenging with the 180 days of school/990 hours of instruction thing to prove that planning/asynch day meets the hours requirement (I think), but I'm sure they can find a way.

Plus there's the distancing guidelines. Unless CDC eliminates them, mitigation-conscious districts won't fill classrooms (whether you think they should or no). Even if they only have a suggestion "where possible," it isn't happening. Right now 3' is considered acceptable and 6' the gold standard, and FCPS has said they won't do less than 6'.[/quote]

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