Colleagues, For the last several weeks, we have been trying to get the District to enact measures that would reduce disruption and violence in our schools. In response, the District has lashed out against teachers and offered empty rhetoric instead of any real action or real leadership. Superintendent Lesli Myers-Small accused teachers of promoting a “false narrative” to vilify their students. And a school board member alleged that Rochester teachers don’t understand their own students and don’t care about them. All this is because we want our schools to be safe and to provide more social and emotional support for our students and more security for our schools. And while the District leadership remains in denial and disconnected from reality, our students remain unsupported and our schools remain unsafe. To address all this, we have formed a coalition with the other three unions within the District representing paraprofessionals, non-teaching employees and school administrators....