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@MOREcaucusUFT
The Movement of Rank and File Educators is an @uft caucus fighting for empowered workers in schools, a democratic union, + social justice.
New York
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    Mar 3, 2022
    Just a reminder if you’re a public school parent, you don’t know who in your child’s class has a parent in chemo, who has severe asthma, or if your child’s teacher is immunocompromised. If you send your child to school on Monday w/out a mask, you don’t know who you’re risking.
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    Mar 7, 2022
    From a teacher: Well it’s been 2 hours and already kids who came in masked have pulled them off Bc the other kids told them too. It’s too much of a burden to put on little kids to do this on their own. Families who want their kids masked are having *their* choices undermined.
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    @MOREcaucusUFT
    Jan 2, 2022
    People are mad at teachers for sounding the alarm about the actual conditions in schools. We know no one wants to hear it. But we’re not going to be silent when kids health and lives are at risk. We don’t become teachers for the money or the glamour folks, it’s because we care.
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    @MOREcaucusUFT
    Jan 3, 2022
    Cool cool but 30 kids in a classroom is fine
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    @MOREcaucusUFT
    Jan 5, 2022
    Don’t trust people who tell you kids are in crisis but refuse to advocate for more funding for schools to have smaller class sizes, social workers, regular Covid testing, upgraded ventilation and meaningful teaching and learning.
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    @MOREcaucusUFT
    Jan 14, 2022
    FYI it is not logistically possible to have teachers livestream lessons as a remote option. We don’t have the internet capacity, and also teaching is not lecturing where you stand in one place all day yelling into a mic. Learn about pedagogy.
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    @MOREcaucusUFT
    Feb 4, 2022
    From an immunocompromised teacher: if masking in school ends I will have to quit. There’s no other way. We’re already facing a mass exodus of teachers and students. Ending safety precautions while Covid continues to spread and mutate will force more people out. Period.
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    @MOREcaucusUFT
    Jan 2, 2022
    We’d like to cordially invite @NYCMayor @NYCHealthCommr @NYCSchools @UFT’s largely remote staff to sub in public schools for the next two weeks, and then tell us if you think your “plan” is safe or in the best interest of kids. We’ll wait.
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    @MOREcaucusUFT
    Dec 30, 2021
    With 24% positivity among kids ages 5-11, and no baseline PCR testing of all students before return every school and every class will have Covid cases on Monday And then the kids will all eat lunch together. By Tuesday, every child in school will have been exposed to covid.
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    @MOREcaucusUFT
    Jan 7, 2022
    End mayoral control of schools.
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    @MOREcaucusUFT
    Jan 29, 2021
    If the @nytimes staff wants to volunteer to spend 6 hours a day in person in a freezing classroom with 5 year olds who aren’t getting Covid tests, and who take their masks off for indoor lunch while Covid rates are higher than they were this spring we’re happy to switch with them
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    @MOREcaucusUFT
    Jan 7, 2022
    Parents seriously let your kids go play in the park today. They’re not getting anything from school except combined classes in the auditorium & Covid today.
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    @MOREcaucusUFT
    Jan 8, 2022
    If the only people you interview about schools are people privileged enough to be working remotely right now you are not doing your job
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    @MOREcaucusUFT
    Dec 31, 2021
    “Encouraging” 1.5 million kids and staff to get tested on a holiday weekend when test sites are shut down or overwhelmed is about as helpful as @NYCSchools just “encouraging” everyone to spread Covid at school