Posted on 01/01/2021 8:23:37 AM PST by Kaslin
Is there any profession that has taken a bigger hit in the credibility department over the course of the COVID pandemic than teaching? That’s unfortunate given the fact that many teachers simply wanted to get back in the classroom as soon as possible, recognizing the dangers prolonged lockdowns represented to students.
Yet, there have been so many high profile cases of teachers and their union leaders ignoring science for their own personal gain and laziness that it has unfairly tarnished everyone. One of the most recent cases involves a woman named Sarah Chambers from Chicago (because of course she’s from Chicago).
Chambers, a member of the Chicago Teachers Union Board, was encouraging teachers to stay home because it was supposedly unsafe to return to work. But it was what she had posted a few hours later that got her caught in a compromising position.
Sarah Chambers is on the union’s executive board and is an area vice president.
As recently as Thursday, she tweeted to rally special education teachers not to return to work Monday because it’s unsafe.
Just a few hours earlier, Chambers posted a picture on Instagram that appears to show her pool side in Puerto Rico and talking about going to Old San Juan for seafood.
Yes, at the same time she was telling teachers to refuse to do the job they are paid for because it’s safest to stay home, this woman was traveling all the way to Puerto Rico to lay on the beach and go to public places to eat seafood. What happened to setting a good example?
She has an excuse, though. She claims to have already had COVID and that she tested negative before traveling.
The post also mentions she previously had COVID, got a negative test result and consulted her doctor before traveling.
Well, if she consulted her doctor, then it’s all good, I suppose. That means she doesn’t have to be logically consistent. Chambers gets to apply common sense for herself while she threatens to bludgeon students via completely unjustifiable work stoppages if schools are reopened. Also, given that some large portion of Chicago teachers have already had the virus, why aren’t Chambers and those others volunteering to go back to the classroom? I mean, if that’s the standard, let’s apply it.
The reality of the situation is her going to Puerto Rico isn’t dangerous. But the reality of the situation is also that teachers going back to work to do their jobs is not dangerous either. Schools have been open in many parts of the country since August, and in many parts of the world, months before even that. There was never one ounce of science behind the idea that schools were spread vectors. The passage of time and a complete lack of outbreaks have shown that to be correct. Yet, this teachers union leader is still encouraging strikes for 2021 while she sips drinks on vacation in the Caribbean. Amazing, right?
Teacher administrators - there’s the life - one I knew some years back paid cash for a sporty model BMW convertible with all bells and whistles
Then in that case, sweetie, get your not-guilty derrière back into the classroom.
Meanwhile, Chicago screws its cops and firefighters.
If parents really want to get teachers back in the classroom, a suggestion:
Start ratting out teachers who are teaching remotely from nicer climes to the other state’s department of taxation.
Might help if some start getting a visit from the tax man.
Politicians (Newsom, Whitmer, deBlasio)?
Politically oriented medical personnel? (e.g., FDA on HCQ/Ivermectin)?
MSM media?
Nice sweater puppies.
Exactly.
They just don’t want to work but sit around on the beach, getting paid anyways.
Nice racket if you can get it.
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Cops?
I read second city cop regularly and police and firefighters we’re getting screwed Way Way Beyond what most people imagine
PS: I’m tired of correcting all the crazy capitalizations that voice recognition throws in, so just ignore them.
Teachers unions destroyed education.
I’ve lost any respect for teachers some time ago....I had good teachers eons ago...dedicated...back then it was a VOCATION but now, its a simple easy degree with guaranteed work for many shallow silly people who muddled thru...
They should be laid off until safe to return and teach.
I’m tired of all this.
Show up at their homes, bring a laptop and let the kids do class in a car in front of their homes.
In before the “not guilty”.
‘Nice racket if you can get it.’
yeah, she does have a nice rack-et...
‘In before the “not guilty”.’
all my teachers when I was a kid looked like a cross between Helen Thomas and Golda Meir...
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