Posted on 07/29/2020 6:18:55 PM PDT by karpov
As the nation heads toward a chaotic back-to-school season, with officials struggling over when to reopen classrooms and how to engage children online, teachers’ unions are playing a powerful role in determining the shape of public education as the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage.
Teachers in many districts are fighting for longer school closures, stronger safety requirements and limits on what they are required to do in virtual classrooms, while flooding social media and state capitols with their concerns and threatening to walk off their jobs if key demands are not met.
On Tuesday, the nation’s second-largest teachers’ union raised the stakes dramatically by authorizing its local and state chapters to strike if their districts do not take sufficient precautions — such as requiring masks and updating ventilation systems — before reopening classrooms. Already, teachers’ unions have sued Florida’s governor over that state’s efforts to require schools to offer in-person instruction.
But even as unions exert their influence, they face enormous public and political pressure because of widespread acknowledgment that getting parents back to work requires functioning school systems, and that remote learning failed many children this spring, deepening achievement gaps by race and income.
With the academic year set to begin next month in much of the country, parents are desperate for teachers to provide more interactive, face-to-face instruction this fall, both online and, where safe, in person. But many unions, while concerned about the safety of classrooms, are also fighting to limit the amount of time that teachers are required to be on video over the course of a day.
The unions are “really on the backs of their heels on this,” said Robin Lake, director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education, a research and advocacy group that sometimes takes positions contrary to unions.
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The best outcome of the pandemic panic would be the total and complete destruction of public “education” in America.
Maybe they’ll be putting themselves out of work as parents make other arrangements to educate their children. One can only hope.
Fire all of em like Reagan did the Traffic Controllers. Work, or you’re FIRED.
It isn’t about safety.
And a number of teachers have been arrested at these riots
Fire them because they’re lying when they said that they’re worried about their safety and health because they’re going out in public and getting into fights
Government/union schools are dead. We shall see who bails them out.
Air traffic controller went on strike. They were fired.
Umpires went on strike. They err replaced.
I’m sure there are plenty of newly graduated teachers who need a job.
If not, hire some out of work babysitters. That’s what teachers have become anyway, for the most part.
I hope that these morons destroy our public school system once and for all. Once it was the envy of the entire world. Now is is a corrupt, reeking propaganda indoctrination program.
Educate our children in private schools and figure out how to take care of the children of poor families, but the public schools need to be plowed into the ground and salted with the remains, just like Carthage.
The difference between now and a Strike is ?
Require teachers to be at school to teach virtually using the school’s resources. Be there 30 minutes before normal start to 30 minutes after the school day. If they are not there they do not get paid. Let them worry about setting up other facilities for their children. The schools will be open shortly.
If it’s anything like Fort Worth ISD, it’s a huge mess. As all school districts, FWISD suffers from too many “chiefs” and not enough “Indians” and all the chiefs have risen to their own level of incompetency. As such, they really have no idea what they are doing in trying to set up face-to-face instruction under the current guidelines. The only thing that will work is the virtual learning the teachers themselves have been perfecting for the last three months. My wife reported for work on her first required day, and nothing was working. Her computer was moved, her printer didn’t work, and the IT department was non-existent. And, nobody knew anything.
Total SHAMdemic.
Here are a list of articles collected, by various FReepers, on the ACTUAL chances of children infecting adults (sometimes known as TEACHERS)....
School Children Don’t Spread Coronavirus, French Study Shows
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-children-explainer-idUSKBN22V33B
Such is why I switched my kids to private: can’t trust public schools won’t make decisions largely based on politics & hysteria.
Here in Xenia, Ohio I drove by the high school and the color guard was on the parking lot practicing. Felt great.
I can understand the wariness teachers have of creating an online Moddle type class. Once it is created it can be reused repeatedly and because the curriculum doesn’t change much the program wouldn’t even need to be updated all that often. Classes can even be set up in a way that the program does the grading.
That means, you create the robotic program that does your job. The program could be used by unlimited numbers of students. It is completely unbiased and has no personality issues and would never abuse students.
Best of all. All teachers could be fired because they’d have been replaced by a machine.
Kids would learn at their own pace. School shootings would be a thing of the past because there would be no physical school to go.
No issues with bullying.
No Zero tolerance fiascos
No expulsions for wearing a conservative shirt.
School taxes would fall by 90%
What’s not to like?
If I remember correctly, Greene County is inhabited by good people.
And the proof of that is what or where?
A lot of districts are also wanting to delay returning to classes.
Oddly enough most of them have picked mid-September.
If a spike did occur that would be about the first week of October which leaves just enough time before the election for the progs to demand Fraud-By-Mail.
Ballots would have to be manually distributed because of the short time frame.
Then you would have millions of ballots floating around with no accountability on who gets them.
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ATC’s are Federal, teachers are not.
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