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Bellevue Teachers Union: “We aren’t going back to work”

thechatch
thechatch Member Posts: 7,257 Standard Supporter
“BEA educators voted against moving forward expanding in-person learning until a COVID-19 vaccine is more readily available to all educators. Current in-person and virtual classes will continue pending an announcement from the district by Wednesday, approving the expansion pause.

"We have a vaccine on the horizon and we need to use every protection possible to keep our students, staff, and community safe," Snow said in the WEA statement. "It doesn’t make sense to return more students and staff to school buildings without taking every measure we can, which includes offering vaccines to educators."

https://www.q13fox.com/news/parents-grow-frustrated-with-bellevue-teachers-meeting-over-the-possibility-of-delaying-in-person-learning.amp

They’re just following the science, guys....
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  • alumni94
    alumni94 Member Posts: 4,871


    More entertainment from the "we are all going to die" to "come on out it's safe now" show.
  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter
    Terrible people
  • thechatch
    thechatch Member Posts: 7,257 Standard Supporter
    Sets up a showdown between the BSD superintendent and the teachers Union.

    He basically said in an open letter that was emailed out to parents last week that union reps were reneging on an agreed upon rollout to in person learning and that the union was placing politics over students well-being.

    Still no recorded cases of child-to-school staff transmission for those of you keeping score at home.

    So, either the rank and file for the union prefers working from home in their PJs, or the union is after more than just access to vaccines.

    Because last I checked, meat packers, Uber eats drivers, Amazon delivery people, and grocery baggers are still out at work, servicing these teachers who are at home, ranting about Donald Trump on zoom calls with their 2nd grade students instead of teaching math and writing.

    I fucking cannot stand teachers unions and 50% of all primary public educators are trash anyway. Maybe 40% in Bellevue, since it’s apparently one of the best districts on the west coast.

    But, remember...as the LA County School Union Chief taught us, this is all about them keeeds, right?
  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,099
    Well, put the teachers union leaders in with that fucking faggot Jay Inslee as child killers, too.


  • doogie
    doogie Member Posts: 15,072
    edited January 2021
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 114,030 Founders Club
    I'm not sure that LA schools even exist anymore. When home learning was rolled out about 50% of the kids didn't bother. And that was last winter
  • thechatch
    thechatch Member Posts: 7,257 Standard Supporter

    Well, put the teachers union leaders in with that fucking faggot Jay Inslee as child killers, too.


    Inslee is hot garbage, but he’s asking for a return to in-person learning, knowing that parents have had enough and there’s a political cost.

    Teachers Union wants something more than just vaccines and they’re sending a message that they can exact that political cost if they do choose.

    But, but, but....science, guys.
  • doogie
    doogie Member Posts: 15,072
    I think BTA should use up all of their political capital today.
  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter
    thechatch said:

    Well, put the teachers union leaders in with that fucking faggot Jay Inslee as child killers, too.


    Inslee is hot garbage, but he’s asking for a return to in-person learning, knowing that parents have had enough and there’s a political cost.

    Teachers Union wants something more than just vaccines and they’re sending a message that they can exact that political cost if they do choose.

    But, but, but....science, guys.
    I haven't tracked it super close lately, but last I saw Jay was being sorta canny and letting Reykdal be the bad guy calling for mass death by way of opening schools.
  • HuskyJW
    HuskyJW Member Posts: 15,295

    Its HARD to go back to work after 8 months of raging alcoholism

    I know

    Truth
  • huskyhooligan
    huskyhooligan Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 5,954 Swaye's Wigwam
    Because we all had teachers who no to half assed it, those that were good, those that made learning worse, and that many of the things we were taught provided little value than the ability to sit quietly for 50 minutes at a time.
  • thechatch
    thechatch Member Posts: 7,257 Standard Supporter
    doogie said:

    Teachers Union knows that when the Doors Open, the student counts won’t be anywhere near pre-Covid and that means Staffing Cuts.

    That means for every student who found an alternative to full time in person return to school the district loses $11,500

    Source?
  • doogie
    doogie Member Posts: 15,072
    Washington's public schools serve over 1.1 million students, and the state is responsible for funding the public education of each of those students. Although there are variances across school districts and grade levels, the state spent an average of $11,500 per student in basic education funding in 2019.

    https://www.k12.wa.us/policy-funding
  • DoogieMcDoogerson
    DoogieMcDoogerson Member Posts: 2,509
    I can't validate the $11,500 but my wife does work in an admissions office for a local school here and they take every possible measure to prevent withdrawals as it financially makes a huge difference to them. When WA State offered an "online option" which was centralized and not tied to the school, they lost students and called each and every one of them to try to sway them back due to finances.
  • HuskyJW
    HuskyJW Member Posts: 15,295

    I can't validate the $11,500 but my wife does work in an admissions office for a local school here and they take every possible measure to prevent withdrawals as it financially makes a huge difference to them. When WA State offered an "online option" which was centralized and not tied to the school, they lost students and called each and every one of them to try to sway them back due to finances.

    more FTE=more money

    Centralized teaching....like a call center?
  • DoogieMcDoogerson
    DoogieMcDoogerson Member Posts: 2,509
    edited January 2021
    HuskyJW said:

    I can't validate the $11,500 but my wife does work in an admissions office for a local school here and they take every possible measure to prevent withdrawals as it financially makes a huge difference to them. When WA State offered an "online option" which was centralized and not tied to the school, they lost students and called each and every one of them to try to sway them back due to finances.

    more FTE=more money

    Centralized teaching....like a call center?
    Centralized within the school district. I would not be surprised to see it tied to a statewide program. Think of it as a virtual High School, Middle School, or Gradeschool within a district with large class sizes, very few teachers and a lot of asynchronous self-guuided curriculum. Individual schools suffer financially when students pick the online option. I am sure both the schools and the teacher's unions hate it as it threatens them.
  • doogie
    doogie Member Posts: 15,072
    HuskyJW said:

    I can't validate the $11,500 but my wife does work in an admissions office for a local school here and they take every possible measure to prevent withdrawals as it financially makes a huge difference to them. When WA State offered an "online option" which was centralized and not tied to the school, they lost students and called each and every one of them to try to sway them back due to finances.

    more FTE=more money

    Centralized teaching....like a call center?
    No. The Washington State official online school. It’s not tied to any district and the money follows the student
  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter
    doogie said:

    HuskyJW said:

    I can't validate the $11,500 but my wife does work in an admissions office for a local school here and they take every possible measure to prevent withdrawals as it financially makes a huge difference to them. When WA State offered an "online option" which was centralized and not tied to the school, they lost students and called each and every one of them to try to sway them back due to finances.

    more FTE=more money

    Centralized teaching....like a call center?
    No. The Washington State official online school. It’s not tied to any district and the money follows the student
    The money follows, so long as it stays in the State.
  • TurdBomber
    TurdBomber Member Posts: 20,041 Standard Supporter
    Most hilarious to me was the fawning adoration so many lefty teachers had for Obama, while his basketball buddy Arne Duncan and partner-in-gentrifying Chicago, Rahm Emanuel closed public schools, laid off union teachers, and diverted huge sums of money to private, non-unionized Charter schools. That was the biggest Fuck You from Democrats to a Union in decades.

    And it made no difference. Cause all teachers want BBC.
  • Sledog
    Sledog Member Posts: 37,806 Standard Supporter
    Imagine people sitting at home doing diddly while getting full pay don't want to go back to work. Turn off the paychecks and they'll be fighting to get back in.
  • TurdBomber
    TurdBomber Member Posts: 20,041 Standard Supporter
    Sledog said:

    Imagine people sitting at home doing diddly while getting full pay don't want to go back to work. Turn off the paychecks and they'll be fighting to get back in.

    Watch it, Sleddy. In the eyes of of libs, you're trying to start a riot.
  • Sledog
    Sledog Member Posts: 37,806 Standard Supporter

    Sledog said:

    Imagine people sitting at home doing diddly while getting full pay don't want to go back to work. Turn off the paychecks and they'll be fighting to get back in.

    Watch it, Sleddy. In the eyes of of libs, you're trying to start a riot.
    Insurrection! Hell they really don't want to see what an insurrection really looks like.