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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Somebody is really freaking out lol.[/quote]

It's multiple people and I am one of them. We are exhausted of being told that school closures "don't matter" and that we should "get over it." People tend to freak out when you gaslight them for two years. The fact that you STILL don't understand that parents need schools in order to function, and that simply taking them away without justification for a year was going to have political ramification, is the part that floors me.[/quote]

Who took them away? Who was our Mayor again?[/quote]

Well, arguably the union took them away.  And the mayor didn't stand up to them.

I'm impressed by the idea some of you have that the union is completely blameless in the school closure debacle.
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+100

I personally have really been struggling in the last year because I love our teachers and have always supported the union but I'm not sure I'm ever going to get over how the union handled Covid. They operated from fear and often from a refusal to look at facts and science. I was initially understanding because I also didn't want to go back to work when Covid was raging and there was no vaccine. But when teachers got vaccine priority and our school continued to offer no more than a handful of in-person slots, and the union was slow to encourage teachers to vaccinate or advocate strongly for a return to in person, I really lost so much respect for it.

Still love individual teachers, but I think something broke there. There is a trust that I think it's going to be hard to repair. I used to view the union as a partner on education advocacy and now I can see that they will put the fears (not even the actual interests, but the fears) of teachers ahead of good education policy, I don't feel that way anymore.[/quote]

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