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Anonymous wrote:Private preschool? Does Berkeley have free universal preschool? A lot of jurisdictions don't.

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Even if it doesn't, why would private preschool be SAFE but public K, for instance, be UNSAFE?

Well, my kids are in private school and their school (1) doesn't require busing, (2) spent millions of dollars upgrading the air filtration systems in the buildings, (3) has so much space that they are able to have all desks in all rooms six feet apart, (4) has paid for weekly testing for all students, faculty, and staff since August plus ongoing waste testing, (5) has tons and tons of acres of outdoor space in which they have erected tents and other structures to provide outdoor learning areas, I could go on and on. Public schools can't do these things. It's not rocket science.

Newsflash.....MOST private schools cannot do all these things either. But, most remain open 5 days a week.
Funny how when your income depends on opening up like private schools do, they are willing to open. And, for the most part - things have gone well.
Public schools? Hell.... they get paid regardless. That's the difference here. If public school teachers were not receiving a full income while at home - you know damned well they would be open by now.
The science says that schools can open with appropriate precautions. In fact, the science says that kids are safer at school than at home.
That's the science.

ding ding ding. this is even worse for charters, who aren’t even accountable to an elected official or body.

Charters are accountable to their students and families, which is far more than we can say about public school systems. When charter schools fail to effectively educate their children, parents walk. Parents don't have that option with public school districts, and the schools know it.

That's the beauty of a charter school. They ARENT accountable to the machine that is a public school system. We loved our city charter school and were shocked by middle school when we realized what a 'normal' public school is like.

except it’s not actually working that way. charters are behind DCPS in opening, because nobody has the power to order charters to open. It’s simple economics: charter teachers and admins can continue getting paid during DL and have no incentive to reopen.

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Anonymous wrote:Private preschool? Does Berkeley have free universal preschool? A lot of jurisdictions don't.

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Even if it doesn't, why would private preschool be SAFE but public K, for instance, be UNSAFE?

Well, my kids are in private school and their school (1) doesn't require busing, (2) spent millions of dollars upgrading the air filtration systems in the buildings, (3) has so much space that they are able to have all desks in all rooms six feet apart, (4) has paid for weekly testing for all students, faculty, and staff since August plus ongoing waste testing, (5) has tons and tons of acres of outdoor space in which they have erected tents and other structures to provide outdoor learning areas, I could go on and on. Public schools can't do these things. It's not rocket science.

Newsflash.....MOST private schools cannot do all these things either. But, most remain open 5 days a week.
Funny how when your income depends on opening up like private schools do, they are willing to open. And, for the most part - things have gone well.
Public schools? Hell.... they get paid regardless. That's the difference here. If public school teachers were not receiving a full income while at home - you know damned well they would be open by now.
The science says that schools can open with appropriate precautions. In fact, the science says that kids are safer at school than at home.
That's the science.

ding ding ding. this is even worse for charters, who aren’t even accountable to an elected official or body.

Charters are accountable to their students and families, which is far more than we can say about public school systems. When charter schools fail to effectively educate their children, parents walk. Parents don't have that option with public school districts, and the schools know it.

That's the beauty of a charter school. They ARENT accountable to the machine that is a public school system. We loved our city charter school and were shocked by middle school when we realized what a 'normal' public school is like.

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Anonymous wrote:Private preschool? Does Berkeley have free universal preschool? A lot of jurisdictions don't.

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Even if it doesn't, why would private preschool be SAFE but public K, for instance, be UNSAFE?

Well, my kids are in private school and their school (1) doesn't require busing, (2) spent millions of dollars upgrading the air filtration systems in the buildings, (3) has so much space that they are able to have all desks in all rooms six feet apart, (4) has paid for weekly testing for all students, faculty, and staff since August plus ongoing waste testing, (5) has tons and tons of acres of outdoor space in which they have erected tents and other structures to provide outdoor learning areas, I could go on and on. Public schools can't do these things. It's not rocket science.

Newsflash.....MOST private schools cannot do all these things either. But, most remain open 5 days a week.
Funny how when your income depends on opening up like private schools do, they are willing to open. And, for the most part - things have gone well.
Public schools? Hell.... they get paid regardless. That's the difference here. If public school teachers were not receiving a full income while at home - you know damned well they would be open by now.
The science says that schools can open with appropriate precautions. In fact, the science says that kids are safer at school than at home.
That's the science.

ding ding ding. this is even worse for charters, who aren’t even accountable to an elected official or body.

Charters are accountable to their students and families, which is far more than we can say about public school systems. When charter schools fail to effectively educate their children, parents walk. Parents don't have that option with public school districts, and the schools know it.

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Anonymous wrote:Almost every public school teacher I know has their kids in private or parochial school. This is nothing new. Get a life, OP.

The fact that this hypocrisy is so widespread only makes it more outrageous!

and the joke is on YOU!

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Anonymous wrote:Private preschool? Does Berkeley have free universal preschool? A lot of jurisdictions don't.

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Even if it doesn't, why would private preschool be SAFE but public K, for instance, be UNSAFE?

Well, my kids are in private school and their school (1) doesn't require busing, (2) spent millions of dollars upgrading the air filtration systems in the buildings, (3) has so much space that they are able to have all desks in all rooms six feet apart, (4) has paid for weekly testing for all students, faculty, and staff since August plus ongoing waste testing, (5) has tons and tons of acres of outdoor space in which they have erected tents and other structures to provide outdoor learning areas, I could go on and on. Public schools can't do these things. It's not rocket science.

Newsflash.....MOST private schools cannot do all these things either. But, most remain open 5 days a week.
Funny how when your income depends on opening up like private schools do, they are willing to open. And, for the most part - things have gone well.
Public schools? Hell.... they get paid regardless. That's the difference here. If public school teachers were not receiving a full income while at home - you know damned well they would be open by now.
The science says that schools can open with appropriate precautions. In fact, the science says that kids are safer at school than at home.
That's the science.

ding ding ding. this is even worse for charters, who aren’t even accountable to an elected official or body.

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Anonymous wrote:You guys don’t seem to understand that he is the president of the teachers union. His job is to represent his dues paying members. He isn’t a teacher. He is a labor leader.

And, a hypocrite.

There is no reason for schools not to be open and him taking his daughter to preschool just exemplifies that.
The unions represent teachers - not students. This is important to remember. They don't have students' best interests in mind. Individual teachers might, but the unions don't.
The public is right to be calling him out.

~A retired teacher

- wait. They don’t represent the students?

A union exists to protect it's members

Exactly. It boggles my mind that parents would place any weight in the political endorsement of a teachers union. Your interests are not aligned, no matter how hard they try to spin it. That should be more than obvious by now.

Well, I definitely pay attention now, in that I will vote against candidates endorsed by the unions.

That’s basically half of all school board members in America. Of course they stack the deck of the board that has governance and oversight.

I recommend “Special Interests” by Moe.

https://www.brookings.edu/book/special-interest/

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Anonymous wrote:You guys don’t seem to understand that he is the president of the teachers union. His job is to represent his dues paying members. He isn’t a teacher. He is a labor leader.

And, a hypocrite.

There is no reason for schools not to be open and him taking his daughter to preschool just exemplifies that.
The unions represent teachers - not students. This is important to remember. They don't have students' best interests in mind. Individual teachers might, but the unions don't.
The public is right to be calling him out.

~A retired teacher

- wait. They don’t represent the students?

A union exists to protect it's members

Exactly. It boggles my mind that parents would place any weight in the political endorsement of a teachers union. Your interests are not aligned, no matter how hard they try to spin it. That should be more than obvious by now.

Well, I definitely pay attention now, in that I will vote against candidates endorsed by the unions.

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Anonymous wrote:You guys don’t seem to understand that he is the president of the teachers union. His job is to represent his dues paying members. He isn’t a teacher. He is a labor leader.

And, a hypocrite.

There is no reason for schools not to be open and him taking his daughter to preschool just exemplifies that.
The unions represent teachers - not students. This is important to remember. They don't have students' best interests in mind. Individual teachers might, but the unions don't.
The public is right to be calling him out.

~A retired teacher

- wait. They don’t represent the students?

A union exists to protect it's members

Exactly. It boggles my mind that parents would place any weight in the political endorsement of a teachers union. Your interests are not aligned, no matter how hard they try to spin it. That should be more than obvious by now.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You guys don’t seem to understand that he is the president of the teachers union. His job is to represent his dues paying members. He isn’t a teacher. He is a labor leader.

And, a hypocrite.

There is no reason for schools not to be open and him taking his daughter to preschool just exemplifies that.
The unions represent teachers - not students. This is important to remember. They don't have students' best interests in mind. Individual teachers might, but the unions don't.
The public is right to be calling him out.

~A retired teacher

- wait. They don’t represent the students?

A union exists to protect it's members

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Anonymous wrote:Almost every public school teacher I know has their kids in private or parochial school. This is nothing new. Get a life, OP.

The fact that this hypocrisy is so widespread only makes it more outrageous!

Why is it a hypocrisy? Teachers are like anyone else and they can make choices about their children's educations. We can't force them to choose public school just because they work for a public school system. Just like we can't force the people who work for GE to only buy GE products and we can't force people who work for McDonald's to only eat McDonald's food.

The issue is he’s fighting to keep public schools closed while sending HIS kid to private school. If it’s so easy to learn from home, why not keep your kid there?

+1 Exactly. He certainly didn’t think about the optics. Not a good look.

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Anonymous wrote:Private preschool? Does Berkeley have free universal preschool? A lot of jurisdictions don't.

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Even if it doesn't, why would private preschool be SAFE but public K, for instance, be UNSAFE?

Well, my kids are in private school and their school (1) doesn't require busing, (2) spent millions of dollars upgrading the air filtration systems in the buildings, (3) has so much space that they are able to have all desks in all rooms six feet apart, (4) has paid for weekly testing for all students, faculty, and staff since August plus ongoing waste testing, (5) has tons and tons of acres of outdoor space in which they have erected tents and other structures to provide outdoor learning areas, I could go on and on. Public schools can't do these things. It's not rocket science.

Newsflash.....MOST private schools cannot do all these things either. But, most remain open 5 days a week.
Funny how when your income depends on opening up like private schools do, they are willing to open. And, for the most part - things have gone well.
Public schools? Hell.... they get paid regardless. That's the difference here. If public school teachers were not receiving a full income while at home - you know damned well they would be open by now.
The science says that schools can open with appropriate precautions. In fact, the science says that kids are safer at school than at home.
That's the science.

This 100 percent. My district won’t even open up for hybrid even though we are one of the most well resourced districts in the state with some of the lowest Covid numbers. Hybrid elementary classrooms would have 4-6 students per cohort. Meanwhile, most of the kids of working parents are at remote learning centers with 10 or more kids per classroom. My kids are in a tiny building spaced no more than 2 ft from other children. Oh, and somehow we have all avoided Covid so far and there have been zero Covid case clusters at any daycare, preschool, remote learning center, or private school in the entire county.

But it’s “not safe” for a teacher to be in a room with 5 masked kids and a portable hepa filter.

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Anonymous wrote:Private preschool? Does Berkeley have free universal preschool? A lot of jurisdictions don't.

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Even if it doesn't, why would private preschool be SAFE but public K, for instance, be UNSAFE?

Well, my kids are in private school and their school (1) doesn't require busing, (2) spent millions of dollars upgrading the air filtration systems in the buildings, (3) has so much space that they are able to have all desks in all rooms six feet apart, (4) has paid for weekly testing for all students, faculty, and staff since August plus ongoing waste testing, (5) has tons and tons of acres of outdoor space in which they have erected tents and other structures to provide outdoor learning areas, I could go on and on. Public schools can't do these things. It's not rocket science.

Newsflash.....MOST private schools cannot do all these things either. But, most remain open 5 days a week.
Funny how when your income depends on opening up like private schools do, they are willing to open. And, for the most part - things have gone well.
Public schools? Hell.... they get paid regardless. That's the difference here. If public school teachers were not receiving a full income while at home - you know damned well they would be open by now.
The science says that schools can open with appropriate precautions. In fact, the science says that kids are safer at school than at home.
That's the science.

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Anonymous wrote:Private preschool? Does Berkeley have free universal preschool? A lot of jurisdictions don't.

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Even if it doesn't, why would private preschool be SAFE but public K, for instance, be UNSAFE?

Well, my kids are in private school and their school (1) doesn't require busing, (2) spent millions of dollars upgrading the air filtration systems in the buildings, (3) has so much space that they are able to have all desks in all rooms six feet apart, (4) has paid for weekly testing for all students, faculty, and staff since August plus ongoing waste testing, (5) has tons and tons of acres of outdoor space in which they have erected tents and other structures to provide outdoor learning areas, I could go on and on. Public schools can't do these things. It's not rocket science.

Wow. What a great video exposing your typical ‘woke’ hypocrite.