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ICYMI, deep dive with @PerryStein on effort to reopen DC schools: Mismanagement by city and intransigence from the District’s teachers union combined to thwart every move. The city kept changing its plan, and the union kept changing its demands. 1/
I’ve heard much positive response to this piece but have been surprised by sharply negative comments from some teachers, who imply scrutiny of the union’s actions amounts to willingness to sacrifice teacher lives. They say it was covid, not unions, that kept schools closed. 2/
There's a very real and legit debate over whether it has been too scary, from the start, to even consider reopening schools in any way. That’s not what our story was about, and that was not the position of the DC teachers union. 3/
Rather, both the city and the union were officially working to offer an in-person option for students who wanted it, and those efforts failed. Our article examined the union AND the city. The city and the mayor made mistake after mistake after mistake, all detailed here. 4/
It is our job to apply scrutiny to the actions of all the important actors. @PerryStein has been doing that all along. This story attempted to put the pieces together. 5/5
