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Teachers Are Wary of Returning to Class, and Online Instruction Too. Unions are threatening to strike if classrooms reopen, but are also pushing to limit live remote teaching. Their demands will shape pandemic education.
New York Times ^ | July 29, 2020 | Dana Goldstein and Eliza Shapiro

Posted on 07/29/2020 6:18:55 PM PDT by karpov

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To: wjcsux

It’s a pretty quiet place considering it’s proximity to Dayton. Reliably Republican and safe to put a Trump 2020 sign on the lawn.


21 posted on 07/29/2020 6:48:37 PM PDT by pnut22
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To: McCarthysGhost
 
 
On the network evening news saw where parents were pooling their resources for "micro pods", where the stay-at-home moms were hosting classes at their homes so that the working parents could go to their jobs without worry. Interesting concept, though not sure how long it'll last after the government and unions turn their toxic attention to it.
 
 

22 posted on 07/29/2020 6:49:35 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: madprof98

You’re 100% correct.


23 posted on 07/29/2020 6:50:24 PM PDT by rrrod (6)
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To: madprof98

Any parents with half a brain will realize that public schools are just self-interested government bureaucracies, who pretend to do “education,” and get their kids out of the system.


24 posted on 07/29/2020 6:50:52 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: karpov

If they don’t teach, they don’t get paid.


25 posted on 07/29/2020 6:52:59 PM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
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To: STUDABAKER

I just want the school tax money allocated to my kids, which I paid, to cover private school cost - which I’m paying because I wouldn’t get my money’s worth at public.


26 posted on 07/29/2020 6:53:03 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (Interesting how those so interested in workERS are so disinterested in workING.)
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To: karpov

One of the unintended consequences of this virus was the acceleration of the use of video conferences and teaching. Now that were all using it, they can’t put the genie back in the bottle and were all onto the scam of building schools and colleges and the billions of tax dollars that should no longer be needed to keeo these places open.

Trump should force these schools to close and develop online curriculum. Start by giving a bigger cut to the teachers by cutting all the administration.


27 posted on 07/29/2020 6:53:48 PM PDT by shotgun
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To: karpov
Wrong analysis from the traitorous NYT, but that's par for the course.

Perhaps now is the optimal time to rid ourselves of the status quo and remove these bastards who are only interested in indoctrinating our young and start over from the ground up.

These pukes need to be left behind so that our future generations have a chance of Freedom and Prosperity instead of the current setup.

Plenty of options that are preferable to our current system.

28 posted on 07/29/2020 6:54:50 PM PDT by Pox (Eff You China. Buy American!)
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To: karpov

Hopefully pod/private schooling will lead parents to see how it can be done without the indoctrination of teacher’s union goons who whine about how hard they work.


29 posted on 07/29/2020 6:56:49 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: GnuThere

Every “educator “ I have ever met constantly whines about how hard they work...and how underpaid they are. Spare me. They only “work” about 8 months each year.


30 posted on 07/29/2020 7:00:01 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: Fai Mao

Hey ...Microsoft replaced techs with East Indians a number of years ago...time to do with teachers, but I actually prefer 1 really good teacher teaching thousands online


31 posted on 07/29/2020 7:01:21 PM PDT by goodnesswins (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution." -- Saul Alinksy)
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To: karpov

It’s all about time to riot, tan and drink


32 posted on 07/29/2020 7:01:28 PM PDT by albie
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I’m actually on the side of the teachers on this one — at least in principle. If COVID-19 is serious enough for businesses to shut down and for people to work from home if they are able, then it’s serious enough to keep the schools shut ... since teaching is obviously a job that can be done from home.

Of course, I’ve been saying since March that none of these schools and businesses ever should have been shut down in the first place ... so I want this fiasco with the teachers’ unions to be as disruptive as possible. I want to see strikes by teachers, irate parents shutting down school boards, municipal governments selling all their school property, and the children of this great country finally liberated at last.

33 posted on 07/29/2020 7:02:02 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("We're human beings ... we're not f#%&ing animals." -- Dennis Rodman, 6/1/2020)
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To: Professional

Reagan didn’t fire them. They could’ve gone back to work but few did. They quit.


34 posted on 07/29/2020 7:02:13 PM PDT by libertylover (Socialism will always look good to those who think they can get something for nothing.)
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To: karpov

If they don’t reopen the schools, I want the education portion of my property taxes refunded.


35 posted on 07/29/2020 7:06:22 PM PDT by datura
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To: karpov

They’re all Maynard G. Krebs.


36 posted on 07/29/2020 7:07:13 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (If 100% of us contracted this Covid Virus only 99.997% would be left to tell our story.)
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To: karpov

LOL. What a breathless headline. Partisan democrats are orgasmic over this Chicom flu stuff. They think they have the magic bullet to defeat POTUS.


37 posted on 07/29/2020 7:16:25 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: karpov

Okay then President trump signs and executive order so funds can be diverted from states not open and offered to private institutions who will teach the students.

Sound like an opportunity to finally break the teachers union.


38 posted on 07/29/2020 7:20:11 PM PDT by MagillaX
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To: pnut22

I lived in Montgomery county in the early 80’s. It didn’t take long to notice the difference.


39 posted on 07/29/2020 7:24:56 PM PDT by wjcsux (Cast your vote like itÂ’s 6 November 1860.)
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To: karpov

One word. Parasites.


40 posted on 07/29/2020 7:28:26 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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