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Teacher’s union president says strikes probable in Texas, Arizona, Florida
NY Post ^ | July 30 2020 | Jack Hobbs

Posted on 07/29/2020 11:57:53 PM PDT by knighthawk

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To: knighthawk

Teacher here: I post daily on several sites about this. If Covid is so real, so deadly, and millions will die just like the Media proclaims every single minute, then why are schools being opened. I mean is Covid real or not? I’d like to know...because if Covid is this deadly pandemic that kills millions then to force school openings is a miscarriage. But if Covid is not real, as I suspect, then sure, open schools. No one responds to my question.

Disclaimer: my last year before I retire, don’t care at all, I’m in an urban poor school and know BLM will be pushed down my throat and all the Amish will be up in arms so, yes, I rather stay home this fall. Secondly, when we went remote this spring I had less than 5% of my students participate...and our district said nothing would be graded. It’s all a joke, remote or face to face....so yes...I’d rather stay home.


41 posted on 07/30/2020 5:04:43 AM PDT by krug
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To: knighthawk

Great time to pass vouchers.


42 posted on 07/30/2020 5:29:32 AM PDT by maddogtiger
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To: knighthawk

Churches should step in and use their classrooms for schooling during the weekdays. Hire good teachers and provide good old fashion civics lessons. I am 70 and recall standing up each morning to recite the pledge of allegiance.

As they say, Never let a crisis go to waste.


43 posted on 07/30/2020 6:27:55 AM PDT by IAGeezer912 (One out of every 20 people on the face of the earth are Americans. We have won life's lottery.)
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To: knighthawk

Teachers might want to do a wisdom check on any strikes. Parents sense that teaching their children can’t wait and they will quickly find other options. The public school system worked well in the 1950’s; times are changing.


44 posted on 07/30/2020 8:41:08 AM PDT by lurk
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To: knighthawk

fire them all


45 posted on 07/30/2020 8:42:06 AM PDT by Mom MD
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To: Rockingham
I want them laid off....do not pay them....

these teachers are such wimps...try being a nurse on a covid floor ...try putting on plastic gowns, hair nets, special tight fitting masks plus plastic shields and gloves and try doing work in that get up....

teachers are not essential workers for a reason....

46 posted on 07/30/2020 8:46:52 AM PDT by cherry
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To: knighthawk

Unsafe working conditions in schools,they just deemed them self unessential but police,mail persons,clerks,construction workers,truck drivers,doctors and nurses,custodians,car was people all are essential.


47 posted on 07/30/2020 8:55:23 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: cherry

The primary and secondary public education system as developed under teacher union pressure led to a large, bloated contingent of teachers and support staff. That makes for lots of marginal teachers and staff, maximum employee discontent, and maximum fee income for the teacher unions. Teachers who have a genuine calling prefer to avoid the unions and public school bureaucracy and instead work for private and parochial schools.


48 posted on 07/30/2020 8:56:41 AM PDT by Rockingham
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To: knighthawk

How much you want to bet all this stops once Biden is elected. All this panic and rioting and strikes and fear.


49 posted on 07/30/2020 9:01:09 AM PDT by stuck_in_new_orleans
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To: knighthawk
2018 - Texas teacher dies from flu
50 posted on 07/30/2020 9:39:10 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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2018 - over 80,000 people died from the flu last winter
51 posted on 07/30/2020 9:42:29 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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In the flu epidemic of two years ago (the one no one heard about), it’s estimated that 48 million people were infected. No one was talking about asymptomatic super spreaders and things like that in those days, since the election was a ways off yet, so who knows if all those people actually knew they were ill.

Anyway, that amounts to about 14.5% of the population, or a little more than one in seven persons.

With the insanity that has been foisted on this country in the last five months, the case/positive/negative/death numbers can’t be trusted anyway, so there is really no point in discussing it because the base data is deliberately flawed.

All we can go by is what we see with our own eyes, and that is that no one I know, myself included, knows anyone who knows anyone who knows anyone (...) who has had this disease which we are told exists.

And, everyone, get your Fauci/Birx Designer Edition Covid Goggles before they sell out! Available at a mask-required retailer near you! Buy two, get a free scarf!


52 posted on 07/30/2020 4:38:35 PM PDT by NorthWoody (A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user. - Theodore Roosevelt)
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To: CharlesWayneCT

We’re thinking along the same lines here, but I’m about seven hours late, as usual. I work, what can I say.

See my post right above this one for some of my stellar wit related to your two posts. I hadn’t even seen them when I posted, and I’ve never been to Connecticut, but I have smoked Connecticut tobacco.


53 posted on 07/30/2020 4:55:48 PM PDT by NorthWoody (A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user. - Theodore Roosevelt)
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Earlier this month the American Federation of Teachers, which represents over 1.7 million educators, adopted a resolution which demands the only schools that should reopen for in-person instruction should be in places where the infection rate of COVID-19 is below 5 percent.

There must not be very many math teachers in this group... Dallas County, which is a 'hotspot' for spreading infection, has had 50M positives. Out of 2.6MM means a 1.9% infection rate. Way less than their 5% for shutdown! But wait! That's total cases, so the current infection rate is at least half of that. The hotspot of Dallas is currently under 1%...
54 posted on 08/02/2020 4:15:01 PM PDT by Svartalfiar
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