[Vermont Lt]

My local teachers do fine.

This is another area where people want to nationalize education. I disagree. If we were to nationalize education, my town’s superior schools would be dragged down to the mean. That would kills my home’s value.

Why is it everyone is interested in nationalizing everything. Schools opening or not is up to the State or Local Board. The government has NO say.

Did ANYONE take 4th grade civics?

[volunbeer]

Did ANYONE take 4th grade civics?

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Certainly. The teachers unions taught them all of this.... /s

[newzjunkey]

Schools opening or not is up to the State or Local Board. The government has NO say.

Uhhh... they ARE government, either appointed bureaucrats or elected representatives.

[Agamemnon]

My local teachers do fine.

They are fine if they go back to school to teach the kids like your tax dollars have paid them all these years to do. If they do not go back, they are not good teachers. They are effectively on strike if they fail to return to the classroom to teach the kids.

This is another area where people want to nationalize education. I disagree. If we were to nationalize education, my town’s superior schools would be dragged down to the mean. That would kills my home’s value.

Same argument used with the Air Traffic Controllers. "Oh the horrors! Without the same Air Traffic Controllers who walked off/fired themselves, we'll have mid air collisions and we're all gonna die." Didn't happen that way did it?

Your schools are not superior when your teachers stage a walk out. Tell them to go back to work or they won't get paid.

Why is it everyone is interested in nationalizing everything. Schools opening or not is up to the State or Local Board. The government has NO say.

The National Education Association is the union to which your teachers belong at the state level in order teach in your "superior" public schools. If your teachers are so great have them walk away from the union, or maybe Trump can help them do so by decertifying the union.

Did ANYONE take 4th grade civics?

Did Reagan offend your 4th Grade-level sensibilities back in 1981 when he stared down another union and won?

FReegards!

[imardmd1]

The ability to guider the conduct of teachers and their classrooms was taken out of your hands long ago when their organizations, then voluntarily joined and professional, found their concerns to be ignored by local school boards and the taxpayers to whom the boards and administrators did respond.

When they, like other public employees, were allowed to unionize, they did, and stopped being professionals. So now, the NEA and AFT juggernauts are running your schools. You are not, and never will be again, on account of not backing them in the time of their need.

In my day, up to and through the 1950s, their classroom professionalism gained from rigorous oversight by state regulations and professionally-minded colleges, and with God still in the schools and religious education still taking place in the classroom, there was no need for home-schooling at all.