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Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Mr. G for District 3: Chris Guerrieri's Education Matters: Greene's apathy towards teachers is disturbing (draft)

Mr. G for District 3: Chris Guerrieri's Education Matters: Greene's apathy towards teachers is disturbing (draft)

Greene's apathy towards teachers is disturbing (draft)




I would like you to listen to the 1:06-1:10 mark of the meeting. There Superintendent Greene answers the question, if there was no executive order what would she do, start with distance learning, go with a hybrid, or something else.

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She says she would still push for a hybrid, pointing out we have 1000s of students, who need brick and mortar and her first reason was that we provide food.

Forgive me but didn't we provide food when we shut down in the spring?

She then talks about students who were lagging behind pre-COVID and is concerned they might have fallen even farther behind.

This is a concern we all have but where some of us disagree is we would rather make distance learning better rather than risk their, their teacher, and their family's lives.

She continues saying there is nothing better than a high-quality teacher engaging students face to face and again, here is some common ground, just many of us don't want to risk our lives to do it and sadly she admits she is all too willing to.

She is basically saying risking lives is worth mitigating learning losses. I disagree because the truth is if we CONTINUE READING: 
Mr. G for District 3: Chris Guerrieri's Education Matters: Greene's apathy towards teachers is disturbing (draft)