Colleagues, Teachers know that the best way for students to learn is in-person, not remote - but only when it is safe to do so and certainly not at the peak of the highly contagious Omicron variant. That is why the District’s most recent (in)decision to have 29 schools resume in-person learning while 21 schools remain remote until January 18 creates more chaos, more danger, and more confusion. While the Superintendent claims that the decision is based on their analysis of data, she does not name that data nor did she seek any input from teachers or their representatives. It appears that the District's “data” was primarily to determine which schools would split up and combine classes. Never mind the harm this does to instruction. Medical experts predict that virus contagion will be most evident during the second half of this month. All along our position has been, and remains, that remote learning would be the safest decision until the Omicron surge subsides. In the interim, the...