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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]APS teacher here.  I’m a member of Arlington Parents for Education and support most of their advocacy.  I’m disappointed about what some parents are doing though.  A few days ago another APS teacher emailed families to say that learning may be uneven next month because of COVID and referenced vaccinations and masking, pointing to the Arlington website.  It was a perfectly ordinary message but rubbed some the wrong way.  Someone copied it, posted it to the FB group and then everyone dumped on it because some are against masks or vaccines, or because they think a teacher should never mention them.  Some thought it was to avoid work.   It makes me queasy to think that a well meaning message I might send would get treated that way and scorned for something that I didn’t say or intend.    I don’t think the whole group is bad or anything like that.  But be careful what you send to parents right now because you could have your message passed around that group.  [/quote]

That email was from one of the heads of the teachers unions too who is a COVID fanatic (his name was redacted but my friend’s kid received it and she was outraged too).  But he loves to ride motorcycles in his free time, as he told the W-L newspaper (one of the most dangerous activities around).

His zero COVID evangelicism is completely offputting.  We teach our kids not to wear masks, just as the majority of the country is doing. COVID is never going away and these fanatics will not quit until they ruin our children’s childhood completely trying to avoid the equivalent of a bad cold (considering they’re vaccinated and boosted).

This zero COVID fanaticism is so bizarre, and it really only seems to be a neurosis in the deepest of blue America.

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Like OP I am an APS teacher who largely supports APEs mission (I have blocked a few people there so I don’t see their toxic comments) 
The person who wrote this letter has poor judgment IMO. I don’t like how he often presents as the face of all APS staff, especially considering the low membership in AEA. He riles up the relatively small number of COVID hysterics in our educators group. I think the response in APE was about half supportive, half taking him to task and both sides had a point. [/quote]

NP.  Also a teacher.  Found the thread.  That's the correct assessment.  It went both ways.  I wouldn't have sent that email.  If I did, however, I wouldn't want it posted for general commentary on FB just because someone didn't like it.  Geez.  I expect the parents wouldn't like someone taking their posts on FB and copying them over to DCUM.     [/quote]

He sent that in his professional capacity, not his personal capacity.  There is no expectation of privacy for a mass email sent out in that context.[/quote]

LOL, really?  Glad that APE is cool that stuff posted to their 1000 member group can be re-posted here.  Can't be any expectation of privacy there, either.  Good to know.  This will be fun.[/quote]

People have posted their newsletters here repeatedly.  Things that individual people post in their personal capacity in a closed Facebook group is different.[/quote]

APE is a corporation.  It's got board members who post there.  APE's purpose is to advocate and to influence elections.  It's existence is to promote a former/future SB candidate.  That's not closed.  It's the public square.  More so than a message to parents about about their children, which apparently NY Times material as far as your concerned.   Let it rip, as APE members like to say.  [/quote]

Hey Clarence Darrow, it doesn't work that way.  Besides, the name was redacted, so there was no real disclosure.   No one on APE actually knows who sent the email out. [b] It's just totally fair criticism of a totally out of line teacher telling people to wear masks and get vaxed.  His job is to teach not promote public health.  I expect emails about homework and tests, not telling me about masks.  I decide whether my kid needs to wear a mask and get vaxed. [/b] As along as masks are required, we'll comply but not a second longer than we have to.   Thank God vaxes aren't required.  [/quote]

Oh, you’re an imbecile. Didn’t realize. Mmkay.[/quote]

+1000 PP is a total imbecile.  [/quote]

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