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You can't force people to compromise the most important and essential parts of themselves and the people most important to them.

Unless those people are either 1) in the military; or 2) low wage workers with little education and no money, right?

That's just men, in time of need or people who WILLING go.

And we always screw over the poor, why is this surprising?

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Anonymous wrote:DCPS just rescinded all the return to work staffing surveys they have sent out since schools closed. So that means there is no staffing plan.

Expect the union to make a statement today about collective action.

Well no they still have their randoms to come in. As well as paras and anyone else who is not part of the WTU (teachers social workers speech, OT, school psyc, etc)

My most beloved para told me yesterday that her husband told her that if she is instructed to go back into school she is welcome to quit on the spot. This is like trying to force families to send their children to bad schools...it NEVER works. You can't force people to compromise the most important and essential parts of themselves and the people most important to them. What will it take for DCPS to learn this? And understand it?

it’s called doing your job??!

Do your job or quit....it appears this woman will quit.

This is how I, and many parents, feel. We’re limping along with our kids’ education under constant threat of teachers quitting if we try to improve the situation for even a few kids. If some people quit, so be it. I’d rather find out what we’re working with now and make a plan with the remaining teachers than keep kicking the bucket down the road. This virus isn’t going away anytime soon. As things are, I think we will be having this same conversations in the fall. If teachers want to quit, that issue should be forced and their salaries can go to raises for the teachers who want to work and making improvements on the schools.

+1000

Also agree. I would be amenable to, e.g., the Mayor working out something with the WTU for one year unpaid leave of absences for any teachers who announce by April that they aren't coming back next year. But we need to force the issue and get a true count. It can't be that we're continually held hostage to quitting threats.

This is a very good idea. I wish there was more transparency on what DCPS has offered and what WTU has asked (other than the initial checklist). Hard to know whether either side is being reasonable and/or rational.

They won't do this, even though they treat teacher like crap sometimes, this for sure won't happen. I think people don't know how hard it is to find good teachers for cities and especially if you aren't teaching in Ward 3.

I am a teacher and I want a safe reopening, unfortunately it is true that some staff members in general don't want to come in til a vaccine.

Some people want to come in after every person signs a legal document saying they will be social distancing and if got will be reprimanded or put back on virtual...

There are crazies on every side and I think the best solution is going to be hybrid. I think even next school year I wouldn't expect full in person as normal.

You can't force people to compromise the most important and essential parts of themselves and the people most important to them.

Unless those people are either 1) in the military; or 2) low wage workers with little education and no money, right?

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Anonymous wrote:DCPS just rescinded all the return to work staffing surveys they have sent out since schools closed. So that means there is no staffing plan.

Expect the union to make a statement today about collective action.

Well no they still have their randoms to come in. As well as paras and anyone else who is not part of the WTU (teachers social workers speech, OT, school psyc, etc)

My most beloved para told me yesterday that her husband told her that if she is instructed to go back into school she is welcome to quit on the spot. This is like trying to force families to send their children to bad schools...it NEVER works. You can't force people to compromise the most important and essential parts of themselves and the people most important to them. What will it take for DCPS to learn this? And understand it?

it’s called doing your job??!

Do your job or quit....it appears this woman will quit.

This is how I, and many parents, feel. We’re limping along with our kids’ education under constant threat of teachers quitting if we try to improve the situation for even a few kids. If some people quit, so be it. I’d rather find out what we’re working with now and make a plan with the remaining teachers than keep kicking the bucket down the road. This virus isn’t going away anytime soon. As things are, I think we will be having this same conversations in the fall. If teachers want to quit, that issue should be forced and their salaries can go to raises for the teachers who want to work and making improvements on the schools.

+1000

Also agree. I would be amenable to, e.g., the Mayor working out something with the WTU for one year unpaid leave of absences for any teachers who announce by April that they aren't coming back next year. But we need to force the issue and get a true count. It can't be that we're continually held hostage to quitting threats.

This is a very good idea. I wish there was more transparency on what DCPS has offered and what WTU has asked (other than the initial checklist). Hard to know whether either side is being reasonable and/or rational.

Also listening to the conference. No new information.

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Anonymous wrote:NO DELAY

Is this a protest or do you have intel (hoping the latter as this would be good news!)? 😀

I assume the PP was listening to the Chancellor's school press conference where nothing new was announced despite the rampant rumors of a delay.

Don't be fooled, this is their wishful thinking.

They can't open if teachers can't be given an assignment.

I agree his body language was very tense. I feel like something is up.

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Anonymous wrote:NO DELAY

Is this a protest or do you have intel (hoping the latter as this would be good news!)? 😀

I assume the PP was listening to the Chancellor's school press conference where nothing new was announced despite the rampant rumors of a delay.

Don't be fooled, this is their wishful thinking.

They can't open if teachers can't be given an assignment.

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Anonymous wrote:NO DELAY

Is this a protest or do you have intel (hoping the latter as this would be good news!)? 😀

I assume the PP was listening to the Chancellor's school press conference where nothing new was announced despite the rampant rumors of a delay.

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Is this a protest or do you have intel (hoping the latter as this would be good news!)? 😀

NO DELAY

Having been a teacher in the past...I had to go get another degree in order to have marketable skills.

If the teachers think they're going to be able to quit en masse and easily find other jobs outside of the profession, they are sorely mistaken. There are SOME jobs for educators out there, but the market can't absorb all of them.

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Anonymous wrote:DCPS just rescinded all the return to work staffing surveys they have sent out since schools closed. So that means there is no staffing plan.

Expect the union to make a statement today about collective action.

Well no they still have their randoms to come in. As well as paras and anyone else who is not part of the WTU (teachers social workers speech, OT, school psyc, etc)

My most beloved para told me yesterday that her husband told her that if she is instructed to go back into school she is welcome to quit on the spot. This is like trying to force families to send their children to bad schools...it NEVER works. You can't force people to compromise the most important and essential parts of themselves and the people most important to them. What will it take for DCPS to learn this? And understand it?

Really? Plenty of poor families have been forced to send their children to bad schools for generations. Out of boundary transfers and charters helped on that some in the District but there are people trying to take those choices too.

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Anonymous wrote:DCPS just rescinded all the return to work staffing surveys they have sent out since schools closed. So that means there is no staffing plan.

Expect the union to make a statement today about collective action.

Well no they still have their randoms to come in. As well as paras and anyone else who is not part of the WTU (teachers social workers speech, OT, school psyc, etc)

My most beloved para told me yesterday that her husband told her that if she is instructed to go back into school she is welcome to quit on the spot. This is like trying to force families to send their children to bad schools...it NEVER works. You can't force people to compromise the most important and essential parts of themselves and the people most important to them. What will it take for DCPS to learn this? And understand it?

it’s called doing your job??!

Do your job or quit....it appears this woman will quit.

This is how I, and many parents, feel. We’re limping along with our kids’ education under constant threat of teachers quitting if we try to improve the situation for even a few kids. If some people quit, so be it. I’d rather find out what we’re working with now and make a plan with the remaining teachers than keep kicking the bucket down the road. This virus isn’t going away anytime soon. As things are, I think we will be having this same conversations in the fall. If teachers want to quit, that issue should be forced and their salaries can go to raises for the teachers who want to work and making improvements on the schools.

+1000

Also agree. I would be amenable to, e.g., the Mayor working out something with the WTU for one year unpaid leave of absences for any teachers who announce by April that they aren't coming back next year. But we need to force the issue and get a true count. It can't be that we're continually held hostage to quitting threats.

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Anonymous wrote:DCPS just rescinded all the return to work staffing surveys they have sent out since schools closed. So that means there is no staffing plan.

Expect the union to make a statement today about collective action.

Well no they still have their randoms to come in. As well as paras and anyone else who is not part of the WTU (teachers social workers speech, OT, school psyc, etc)

My most beloved para told me yesterday that her husband told her that if she is instructed to go back into school she is welcome to quit on the spot. This is like trying to force families to send their children to bad schools...it NEVER works. You can't force people to compromise the most important and essential parts of themselves and the people most important to them. What will it take for DCPS to learn this? And understand it?

it’s called doing your job??!

Do your job or quit....it appears this woman will quit.

This is how I, and many parents, feel. We’re limping along with our kids’ education under constant threat of teachers quitting if we try to improve the situation for even a few kids. If some people quit, so be it. I’d rather find out what we’re working with now and make a plan with the remaining teachers than keep kicking the bucket down the road. This virus isn’t going away anytime soon. As things are, I think we will be having this same conversations in the fall. If teachers want to quit, that issue should be forced and their salaries can go to raises for the teachers who want to work and making improvements on the schools.

+1000

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCPS just rescinded all the return to work staffing surveys they have sent out since schools closed. So that means there is no staffing plan.

Expect the union to make a statement today about collective action.

Well no they still have their randoms to come in. As well as paras and anyone else who is not part of the WTU (teachers social workers speech, OT, school psyc, etc)

My most beloved para told me yesterday that her husband told her that if she is instructed to go back into school she is welcome to quit on the spot. This is like trying to force families to send their children to bad schools...it NEVER works. You can't force people to compromise the most important and essential parts of themselves and the people most important to them. What will it take for DCPS to learn this? And understand it?

it’s called doing your job??!

Do your job or quit....it appears this woman will quit.

This is how I, and many parents, feel. We’re limping along with our kids’ education under constant threat of teachers quitting if we try to improve the situation for even a few kids. If some people quit, so be it. I’d rather find out what we’re working with now and make a plan with the remaining teachers than keep kicking the bucket down the road. This virus isn’t going away anytime soon. As things are, I think we will be having this same conversations in the fall. If teachers want to quit, that issue should be forced and their salaries can go to raises for the teachers who want to work and making improvements on the schools.