I don’t know what every district across the state did but schools in Orleans Parish were back in person at the start of the 2020-2021 school year. There are very poor and underserved kids in this district.

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Considering your bent against the further disadvantagement of impoverished individuals (a predisposition which I share w/ you), and your educational background, I am surprised you'd not be seething at the disservice Weingarten et al did to disadvantaged kids.

to be honest, I was in survival mode from 2020 until summer 2022. I didn’t pay much attention to teachers unions that didn’t impact my life in anyway. I taught first grade in 20-21. Teaching kids how to read while wearing a mask was really fun. Plus I had a 1 and 3 year old at the start of the school year - definitely wasn’t worried about whether or not schools in Alexandria or Monroe were in person.

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Posted by NC_Tigah

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Posted on 11/8/23 at 6:04 am to 4cubbies

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In Louisiana, schools shut down because the teachers unions demanded it.
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There was maybe one or two schools with teachers unions in New Orleans in March of 2020 yet all the non-teacher union schools in New Orleans shut down.

Just for clarity in the conversation, the Randi Weingarten Teachers Union school shutdown agenda references failure to reopen for the 2020-21 school year. Yes, everyone shutdown in March 2020. But when private/parochial schools reopened, unionized facilities did not.

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Schools in Louisiana shut down in March of 2020. We were back in person for the 20-21 school year.

Assuming "we" references schools being fully reopened statewide (FIP), your statement is incorrect. In 2020-21, LA slowly ramped from ~10% FIP to around 60% FIP by year's end. It wasn't until the 2021-22 school year that the LA public system returned to attendance normalcy.

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I don’t know what every district across the state did but schools in Orleans Parish were back in person at the start of the 2020-2021 school year.

You'd know better than I. But the LDOE reported Orleans was 39% FIP, 49% Virtual, and 12% Hybrid.