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Anonymous wrote:I am not a union person but people on this board have convinced me that if NoVA ever gets real ones, I will join. I only wish I had as much power and agency some parents seem to think I have.

Hahaha! Isn't that the truth! Teachers have progressed from being called lazy and incapable to people that are SO powerful that we close schools for a year! Funny...

Teachers' collective refusal to return to school is why our schools are closed and others are open. It is the truth.

You know- the problem with teachers is- they’re educated.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am not a union person but people on this board have convinced me that if NoVA ever gets real ones, I will join. I only wish I had as much power and agency some parents seem to think I have.

Hahaha! Isn't that the truth! Teachers have progressed from being called lazy and incapable to people that are SO powerful that we close schools for a year! Funny...

Teachers' collective refusal to return to school is why our schools are closed and others are open. It is the truth.

? We don’t have collective bargaining in NoVA. The people who won’t come in won’t get paid. No one is going on strike or even trying to BUT WE STILL HAVE STAFFING PROBLEMS. This is COMPLETELY a Human Resources dept. issue.

Stop touting that lame party line. If they weren't afraid you would quit/LOA, we would have been back in August.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am not a union person but people on this board have convinced me that if NoVA ever gets real ones, I will join. I only wish I had as much power and agency some parents seem to think I have.

Hahaha! Isn't that the truth! Teachers have progressed from being called lazy and incapable to people that are SO powerful that we close schools for a year! Funny...

Teachers' collective refusal to return to school is why our schools are closed and others are open. It is the truth.

Ignorance. There are a whole lot of people that didn’t think it was a good idea to open the schools back up in the middle of a pandemic. Parents, teachers, epidemiologists... a lot of people said hey, let’s not put 30,000 people (ok-hybrid- 15,000) back together at the height of a historical pandemic. YOU were educated in person?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am not a union person but people on this board have convinced me that if NoVA ever gets real ones, I will join. I only wish I had as much power and agency some parents seem to think I have.

Hahaha! Isn't that the truth! Teachers have progressed from being called lazy and incapable to people that are SO powerful that we close schools for a year! Funny...

Teachers' collective refusal to return to school is why our schools are closed and others are open. It is the truth.

? We don’t have collective bargaining in NoVA. The people who won’t come in won’t get paid. No one is going on strike or even trying to BUT WE STILL HAVE STAFFING PROBLEMS. This is COMPLETELY a Human Resources dept. issue.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am not a union person but people on this board have convinced me that if NoVA ever gets real ones, I will join. I only wish I had as much power and agency some parents seem to think I have.

Hahaha! Isn't that the truth! Teachers have progressed from being called lazy and incapable to people that are SO powerful that we close schools for a year! Funny...

Teachers' collective refusal to return to school is why our schools are closed and others are open. It is the truth.

Anonymous wrote:I am not a union person but people on this board have convinced me that if NoVA ever gets real ones, I will join. I only wish I had as much power and agency some parents seem to think I have.

Hahaha! Isn't that the truth! Teachers have progressed from being called lazy and incapable to people that are SO powerful that we close schools for a year! Funny...

I am not a union person but people on this board have convinced me that if NoVA ever gets real ones, I will join. I only wish I had as much power and agency some parents seem to think I have.

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Anonymous wrote:OMG, if VA can do it, so can MD. Come on schools, OPEN!

Those of you pushing pushing pushing to get schools open RIGHT NOW should be pushing for faster vaccination of teachers and staff. I can’t believe how heartless Americans are.

How can we do that? Northam greenlighted 1B. FCPS where I live is literally vaccinating teachers starting on the 16th via INOVA. Not being a trained to put shots into people's arms, I don't think there's anything I can do.

I am scheduled for the 18th.
The earliest my second dose could be is Feb 8th.
I will be fully protected on Feb 22.

The biggest shame is the nurses and doctors that are getting covid between their first and second dose. Let’s hold on a little longer.

Is there enough vaccine for every teacher? We can absolutely wait until March for full protection so we don't fall back into distance learning.

+1000. Seems like politicians will appease the masses, people will get sick, everything backslides... because you people can’t wait even a month. I am so disgusted.

Calm down. I’m sure most people would be fine waiting a month. BUT, at that point: schools need to be normal, 5 days, and normal 5 days next school year too. None of this “gradual phasing in hybrid 2 days a week” nonsense with nothing on Mondays. Back. To. Full. Time.

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OMG, if VA can do it, so can MD. Come on schools, OPEN!

Those of you pushing pushing pushing to get schools open RIGHT NOW should be pushing for faster vaccination of teachers and staff. I can’t believe how heartless Americans are.

How can we do that? Northam greenlighted 1B. FCPS where I live is literally vaccinating teachers starting on the 16th via INOVA. Not being a trained to put shots into people's arms, I don't think there's anything I can do.

I am scheduled for the 18th.
The earliest my second dose could be is Feb 8th.
I will be fully protected on Feb 22.

The biggest shame is the nurses and doctors that are getting covid between their first and second dose. Let’s hold on a little longer.

Is there enough vaccine for every teacher? We can absolutely wait until March for full protection so we don't fall back into distance learning.

+1000. Seems like politicians will appease the masses, people will get sick, everything backslides... because you people can’t wait even a month. I am so disgusted.

Because it won't be a month. They can't get their act together to vaccinate people. I'm disgusted my kid has been out of school for close to a year.

Just wait 2 weeks. . . . . .

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OMG, if VA can do it, so can MD. Come on schools, OPEN!

Those of you pushing pushing pushing to get schools open RIGHT NOW should be pushing for faster vaccination of teachers and staff. I can’t believe how heartless Americans are.

How can we do that? Northam greenlighted 1B. FCPS where I live is literally vaccinating teachers starting on the 16th via INOVA. Not being a trained to put shots into people's arms, I don't think there's anything I can do.

I am scheduled for the 18th.
The earliest my second dose could be is Feb 8th.
I will be fully protected on Feb 22.

The biggest shame is the nurses and doctors that are getting covid between their first and second dose. Let’s hold on a little longer.

Is there enough vaccine for every teacher? We can absolutely wait until March for full protection so we don't fall back into distance learning.

+1000. Seems like politicians will appease the masses, people will get sick, everything backslides... because you people can’t wait even a month. I am so disgusted.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s exactly what Brabrand already presented and the school board said no.

This is irrelevant

Irrelevant to what?

Getting schools to open sooner and full time. Looks like I am keeping my apps in for private but I had hoped to keep my kids in public.

If you remember back to the spring, it wasn't Brabrand or the school board that closed schools. It was Northam.

While this is not (yet) an order, a command from the governor has weight.

The only thing we can hope for is political pressure from the Biden administration trickling down to our state and then to our schools.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s exactly what Brabrand already presented and the school board said no.

This is irrelevant

Irrelevant to what?

Getting schools to open sooner and full time. Looks like I am keeping my apps in for private but I had hoped to keep my kids in public.

If you remember back to the spring, it wasn't Brabrand or the school board that closed schools. It was Northam.

While this is not (yet) an order, a command from the governor has weight.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s exactly what Brabrand already presented and the school board said no.

This is irrelevant

Irrelevant to what?

Getting schools to open sooner and full time. Looks like I am keeping my apps in for private but I had hoped to keep my kids in public.

Anonymous wrote:It’s exactly what Brabrand already presented and the school board said no.

This is irrelevant

Irrelevant to what?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OMG, if VA can do it, so can MD. Come on schools, OPEN!

Those of you pushing pushing pushing to get schools open RIGHT NOW should be pushing for faster vaccination of teachers and staff. I can’t believe how heartless Americans are.

How can we do that? Northam greenlighted 1B. FCPS where I live is literally vaccinating teachers starting on the 16th via INOVA. Not being a trained to put shots into people's arms, I don't think there's anything I can do.

I am scheduled for the 18th.
The earliest my second dose could be is Feb 8th.
I will be fully protected on Feb 22.

The biggest shame is the nurses and doctors that are getting covid between their first and second dose. Let’s hold on a little longer.

Is there enough vaccine for every teacher? We can absolutely wait until March for full protection so we don't fall back into distance learning.