“Detroit Public Schools’ sole focus and goal is the education of the more than 47,000 students whose education it has been entrusted with by their families. That focus and goal should be shared by all DPS employees. While we can agree to disagree on matters of policy, those disagreements should never impact our students and the instructional time they are entitled to as it [did yesterday] – with 17 schools having been closed due to lack of teachers and other instructional staff. This unplanned turn of events [was] seriously misguided and directly harms our students – taking away a day in the classroom that students can ill-afford given the school days already missed due to our severe weather this past winter. It is truly unfortunate that so many of those who profess to be dedicated educators decided to participate in this action given its unjustifiable and unconscionable consequence.”
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