To be upfront, I am pissed at Seattle Public Schools. As a parent of school-age kids, I have been subjected to SPS’s anti-union propaganda regularly over the last few weeks. Between direct emails touting their reopening lines in the sand and robocalls badmouthing the teachers, SPS is going too far. We gave SPS our contact information for news, not spin and insults. SPS has vaporized any benefit of a doubt and good will by violating its direct information hotlines to families. The teachers and staff have our love and support, not the central office.
From the beginning of pandemic shutdowns, SPS has been a basket case. Spring was uncertain for us all. But when it moved into a summer of head fakes with the teachers and half-baked schedules, the forgivable missteps became a trend of self-inflicted failures. Now SPS is playing the same brinksmanship they did back in August. It’s not a trend. It’s a playbook.
