Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher but this is my job. I know parents except us to always sacrifice for the greater good but at the end of the day, this is how we make a living. I like teaching and interacting with students but teachers are not respected or valued in this country and no way I’m going to be a sacrificial lamb. I’ve been back since Feb but I teach at a title 1 school and most families and kids at our school don’t feel ready to come back yet.

im afraid of flying. does that mean flying is unsafe? doctors have said a thousand times that it's safe for schools to reopen. and in fact schools in most of the rest of the country have been open every day for months, if not this entire school year. just because you're afraid doesn't mean it's not safe. you need to separate your feelings from the actual facts in the world.

I would give the parents so much more credit if you were fighting for a better prize. A 5day week DCPS school is what you will get in the fall. And you can take that dumpster fire all the places you want to.

In your fight to open schools- you forgot that DCPS is awful.

Also, no. You can be mad at the union for not opening DCPS. And no, you cannot be mad at the union for charters not opening. I mean you can- if you just like throwing hate around. It's cool. But its also silly.

Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher but this is my job. I know parents except us to always sacrifice for the greater good but at the end of the day, this is how we make a living. I like teaching and interacting with students but teachers are not respected or valued in this country and no way I’m going to be a sacrificial lamb. I’ve been back since Feb but I teach at a title 1 school and most families and kids at our school don’t feel ready to come back yet.

Actually, you're a public servant paid for with public dollars, to serve the greater public (not just parents). All of society rightfully expects you to actually do your job, just like we expect garbage collectors and nurses to do their jobs. Your job requires being in the classroom.

I’m a teacher but this is my job. I know parents except us to always sacrifice for the greater good but at the end of the day, this is how we make a living. I like teaching and interacting with students but teachers are not respected or valued in this country and no way I’m going to be a sacrificial lamb. I’ve been back since Feb but I teach at a title 1 school and most families and kids at our school don’t feel ready to come back yet.

Anonymous wrote:Yes, I do, because the unions set the baseline in DC and led the "only when it's SAFE" charge that scared parents into thinking that schools are unsafe. I 100% blame the teacher's unions. That's not to say charters don't have their own issues. Also my kid is in a DCPS so the fact that charters have their own issues doesn't negate what unions (local and national) did in our own school.

Yes this. The unions did scare a lot of people coming back INCLUDING the un-unionized teachers at Charters. Our Charter school told me point blank that the reason they are not doing IPL is because they are afraid the teachers will quit if they force them back. The teachers are still afraid to come back.

So yes, I blame the unions for unscientifically founded positions even after the CDC and others time and time reassured on safety. I blame them on pretty much everything that is going on with the education system in DC right now including a 30% drop out of DC public schools and charters, teachers leaving the industry, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:What would have been wrong with just giving everyone a choice? Families that want IPL should get IPL. Families that want virtual can stay virtual. So tired of the condescending sermons on both sides. The only winner was WTU fanning all this division to keep schools shut for everyone.

Because as much as people here don’t want to accept, we should not give parents the “choice” to keep their kids out of school.

School isn't buildings. Sorry. In a pandemic, distance learning IS education, and those students will graduate to the next grade after their year in distance learning.

As much as people like YOU don't want to accept, we should not (and thankfully, did not, despite all your interminable screaming) give privileged parents the "choice" to force everyone else's kids into buildings during a pandemic for the benefit of their own special, special bebes.

If you are a teacher, please do everyone a favor and quit. You obviously don't care about your job or about educating children. You just want to sit at home and work as little as possible. Let someone who actually wants to teach have your job.

The teachers still working from home are generally speaking the worst-of-the-worst teachers. Everyone would be better off if they were fired.

You can still move...

Or we can hold our public servants to account. Out of the bunny slippers and back to work!

D.C. has the most lavishly paid teachers in the country and this is what we, the taxpayers, are getting for our money...

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Anonymous wrote:What would have been wrong with just giving everyone a choice? Families that want IPL should get IPL. Families that want virtual can stay virtual. So tired of the condescending sermons on both sides. The only winner was WTU fanning all this division to keep schools shut for everyone.

Because as much as people here don’t want to accept, we should not give parents the “choice” to keep their kids out of school.

School isn't buildings. Sorry. In a pandemic, distance learning IS education, and those students will graduate to the next grade after their year in distance learning.

As much as people like YOU don't want to accept, we should not (and thankfully, did not, despite all your interminable screaming) give privileged parents the "choice" to force everyone else's kids into buildings during a pandemic for the benefit of their own special, special bebes.

If you are a teacher, please do everyone a favor and quit. You obviously don't care about your job or about educating children. You just want to sit at home and work as little as possible. Let someone who actually wants to teach have your job.

The teachers still working from home are generally speaking the worst-of-the-worst teachers. Everyone would be better off if they were fired.

You can still move...

Or we can hold our public servants to account. Out of the bunny slippers and back to work!

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Anonymous wrote:What would have been wrong with just giving everyone a choice? Families that want IPL should get IPL. Families that want virtual can stay virtual. So tired of the condescending sermons on both sides. The only winner was WTU fanning all this division to keep schools shut for everyone.

Because as much as people here don’t want to accept, we should not give parents the “choice” to keep their kids out of school.

School isn't buildings. Sorry. In a pandemic, distance learning IS education, and those students will graduate to the next grade after their year in distance learning.

As much as people like YOU don't want to accept, we should not (and thankfully, did not, despite all your interminable screaming) give privileged parents the "choice" to force everyone else's kids into buildings during a pandemic for the benefit of their own special, special bebes.

If you are a teacher, please do everyone a favor and quit. You obviously don't care about your job or about educating children. You just want to sit at home and work as little as possible. Let someone who actually wants to teach have your job.

The teachers still working from home are generally speaking the worst-of-the-worst teachers. Everyone would be better off if they were fired.

You can still move...

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Anonymous wrote:What would have been wrong with just giving everyone a choice? Families that want IPL should get IPL. Families that want virtual can stay virtual. So tired of the condescending sermons on both sides. The only winner was WTU fanning all this division to keep schools shut for everyone.

Because as much as people here don’t want to accept, we should not give parents the “choice” to keep their kids out of school.

School isn't buildings. Sorry. In a pandemic, distance learning IS education, and those students will graduate to the next grade after their year in distance learning.

As much as people like YOU don't want to accept, we should not (and thankfully, did not, despite all your interminable screaming) give privileged parents the "choice" to force everyone else's kids into buildings during a pandemic for the benefit of their own special, special bebes.

I can maybe understand this attitude for high school students, maybe middle. But for ECE and early elementary... school IS buildings, to some degree. Or not the buildings themselves, but the immersive experience of being in a classroom. Maybe you can learn HS English via distance learning. But the amount of experiential learning lost for kids in K-5 is massive.

I really hope that schools understand that those of us with kids in this early age group basically had to reconstruct school at home. We might have gotten some academic content via DL, but most of us were essentially homeschooling using the school materials. For people who could not afford tutors or afford/find nannies or daycare (which is most of us) we had to become teachers.

I did an OK job. Just okay. I did some things better than others. I work, so there were some very tough days/weeks/months in there. Sometimes I look back and I can't believe we did this. I am immensely proud that my child seems to have gotten through relatively on track academically and not too messed up socially/emotionally. There are definitely scars, but I worked my butt off to address them and mitigate where I could.

I know that for my kid, school is the full experience, not an online class. And I know that because that experience, or a mediocre facsimile of it, has been unfolding in my home over the last year. Any teacher of young kids who thinks they are really educating kids via DL is delusional. I educated my kid this year. Her teacher helped a little bit.

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Anonymous wrote:What would have been wrong with just giving everyone a choice? Families that want IPL should get IPL. Families that want virtual can stay virtual. So tired of the condescending sermons on both sides. The only winner was WTU fanning all this division to keep schools shut for everyone.

Because as much as people here don’t want to accept, we should not give parents the “choice” to keep their kids out of school.

School isn't buildings. Sorry. In a pandemic, distance learning IS education, and those students will graduate to the next grade after their year in distance learning.

As much as people like YOU don't want to accept, we should not (and thankfully, did not, despite all your interminable screaming) give privileged parents the "choice" to force everyone else's kids into buildings during a pandemic for the benefit of their own special, special bebes.

If you are a teacher, please do everyone a favor and quit. You obviously don't care about your job or about educating children. You just want to sit at home and work as little as possible. Let someone who actually wants to teach have your job.

The teachers still working from home are generally speaking the worst-of-the-worst teachers. Everyone would be better off if they were fired.

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Anonymous wrote:What would have been wrong with just giving everyone a choice? Families that want IPL should get IPL. Families that want virtual can stay virtual. So tired of the condescending sermons on both sides. The only winner was WTU fanning all this division to keep schools shut for everyone.

Because as much as people here don’t want to accept, we should not give parents the “choice” to keep their kids out of school.

School isn't buildings. Sorry. In a pandemic, distance learning IS education, and those students will graduate to the next grade after their year in distance learning.

As much as people like YOU don't want to accept, we should not (and thankfully, did not, despite all your interminable screaming) give privileged parents the "choice" to force everyone else's kids into buildings during a pandemic for the benefit of their own special, special bebes.

If you are a teacher, please do everyone a favor and quit. You obviously don't care about your job or about educating children. You just want to sit at home and work as little as possible. Let someone who actually wants to teach have your job.

Not PP but you can also just move.

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Anonymous wrote:What would have been wrong with just giving everyone a choice? Families that want IPL should get IPL. Families that want virtual can stay virtual. So tired of the condescending sermons on both sides. The only winner was WTU fanning all this division to keep schools shut for everyone.

Because as much as people here don’t want to accept, we should not give parents the “choice” to keep their kids out of school.

School isn't buildings. Sorry. In a pandemic, distance learning IS education, and those students will graduate to the next grade after their year in distance learning.

As much as people like YOU don't want to accept, we should not (and thankfully, did not, despite all your interminable screaming) give privileged parents the "choice" to force everyone else's kids into buildings during a pandemic for the benefit of their own special, special bebes.

If you are a teacher, please do everyone a favor and quit. You obviously don't care about your job or about educating children. You just want to sit at home and work as little as possible. Let someone who actually wants to teach have your job.

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Anonymous wrote:What would have been wrong with just giving everyone a choice? Families that want IPL should get IPL. Families that want virtual can stay virtual. So tired of the condescending sermons on both sides. The only winner was WTU fanning all this division to keep schools shut for everyone.

Because as much as people here don’t want to accept, we should not give parents the “choice” to keep their kids out of school.

School isn't buildings. Sorry. In a pandemic, distance learning IS education, and those students will graduate to the next grade after their year in distance learning.

As much as people like YOU don't want to accept, we should not (and thankfully, did not, despite all your interminable screaming) give privileged parents the "choice" to force everyone else's kids into buildings during a pandemic for the benefit of their own special, special bebes.

huh, that’s news to all the kids who were in school, in the building, all year, in DC.

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Anonymous wrote:Just settle down. People are still dying and only 50 percent of the population is vaccinated. You people in upper NW have an entirely different existence than the rest of the city and you prove it on this site every day. You don't know everything and stop blaming worker organizations that are mostly comprised of women of color for your own weird preconceptions and slated view of the world.

so I’m not supposed to care that black kids in SE have dramatically worse access to education than my kid? makes sense.

But you DON'T care. I know you think you're so sneaky, but you're fooling NO ONE with a working brain. You are using those black kids as wedges to jam your own privileged kids into school buildings.

I wish to hell they had, months ago, allowed back ONLY the lowest income kids, the foster kids, the homeless kids, and left your privileged kids in DL. Then we'd see just how deeply you "care" about "black kids in SE."

But you and the WTU and CO and the mayor and the chancellor didn’t. You left those kids. You used them to get your way and you left them behind. The gap is so much wider than it was and it’s not the fault of parents who wanted kids back in person. It’s yours.

Right? This is such a bizarre argument. The refusal to teach in November was a specific rejection of the most at-risk kids. And it’s extremely odd to be casting “getting kids into school” as some kind of nefarious racist plot.

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Anonymous wrote:Just settle down. People are still dying and only 50 percent of the population is vaccinated. You people in upper NW have an entirely different existence than the rest of the city and you prove it on this site every day. You don't know everything and stop blaming worker organizations that are mostly comprised of women of color for your own weird preconceptions and slated view of the world.

so I’m not supposed to care that black kids in SE have dramatically worse access to education than my kid? makes sense.

But you DON'T care. I know you think you're so sneaky, but you're fooling NO ONE with a working brain. You are using those black kids as wedges to jam your own privileged kids into school buildings.

I wish to hell they had, months ago, allowed back ONLY the lowest income kids, the foster kids, the homeless kids, and left your privileged kids in DL. Then we'd see just how deeply you "care" about "black kids in SE."

But you and the WTU and CO and the mayor and the chancellor didn’t. You left those kids. You used them to get your way and you left them behind. The gap is so much wider than it was and it’s not the fault of parents who wanted kids back in person. It’s yours.