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Brain dump: My colleague resigns...CB Violations....bathroom breaks...4D SB rep chosen...Public Health and RPS


All of these musings will be updated in the coming days. As always, I welcome fact checking!

1. A colleague of mine has officially resigned, and NOT for the predictable reasons. It's not the kids; it's not the parents..... This particular resignation is a huge loss to RPS.

2. The School Board has remained completely silent on the C-Suite's continued flouting of the spirit and letter of collective bargaining. Seriously perplexing in Richmond, one of the incubators for the modern labor movement. RPS was happy to slap "BLM" all over its website during the 2020 uprisings against police brutality. Black Lives Matter, but do Black Workers Matter?

3. Why won't the School Board acknowledge that the Woodville workers voted against implementation of the 200 day pilot in December 2023?

4. Teachers need a bathroom break.

5. We need to study the impact of having multiple classroom teachers in one year on Pre-K-5 students. Experiencing your teacher quit once, twice, even three times in a school year is probably more a more significant variable on our students' academic outcomes than the length of the school year.

6. Garrett Sawyer was chosen as Fourth District school board rep at a special meeting held Tuesday night (May 14, 2024). His appointment will be voted on at the next school board meeting on May 20.

8. VPM shines light on unacceptable facility conditions in RPS.

9. It's super weird being an itinerant teacher.

10. The Mayor and City Council erase (elide? minimize?) the impact of the REA's lobbying and organizing efforts on the restoration of appr. 18 million dollars to the RPS budget.

11. How RPS will fudge data on RPS200? By using the nonsensical metric of attendance.

13. A 3% pay raise is not a "raise." It will barely keep up with inflation.

14. Why does RPS lean into novice teachers?

ELABORATION TO FOLLOW......

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