Posted on 03/01/2021 12:50:56 PM PST by grundle
By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)
March 1, 2021
As I’ve said many times before, I never trust anyone who isn’t willing to live under the same rules that they expect everyone else to live under.
Matt Meyer, the president of the Berkeley teachers union, says it’s too dangerous to open the public schools.
But Meyer was just filmed taking his own daughter to a private school.
Clearly, the real reason for keeping the public schools closed has nothing to do with safety.
This from the the San Francisco affiliate of PBS:
After Leading School Closures, Berkeley Teachers Union President Spotted Dropping Daughter Off at In-Person Preschool
Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez
February 28, 2021
Parent groups are crying “hypocrisy” after a video surfaced showing the president of the Berkeley teachers union dropping off his 2-year-old daughter at an in-person preschool.
Matt Meyer, president of the Berkeley Federation of Teachers, has fought for what he called the “gold standard” for the teachers he represents — saying Berkeley schools should only reopen to in-person learning when educators are vaccinated, among other criteria.
A tentative plan between the Berkeley Unified School District and Berkeley Federation of Teachers in mid-February would see preschoolers through second grade returning to class at the end of March and other grades staggering back to in-person learning through April, according to Berkeleyside.
But some Berkeley parents have claimed that the union is moving too slow and are pushing for earlier school reopenings. They have long argued — and the Center For Disease Control and Prevention has agreed — that schools are safe to reopen without vaccinations for all teachers.
Looking to prove a double-standard by the Berkeley Federation of Teachers union president, they followed Meyer and his 2-year-old daughter to her preschool, camera in hand. The footage they captured has ignited the ire of parents groups fighting teachers unions — and Meyer in particular.
“It’s completely opposite of what he’s pushing,” said Jonathan Zachreson, the founder of Reopen California Schools, which counts Berkeley parents among many of its members. “So why is that safe for him and those people who work there (at the preschool), but not for all of the kids in Berkeley Unified and the teachers? The answer is: It is safe.”
Dems are like ticks. They burrow in, and you can’t get rid of them. This guy is safe.
Two points of note :
1. Allegedly we can’t risk sending kids to school, but his own child goes to an operating private school.
2. He’s president of the Berkeley teacher’s union, a union of public school teachers, but he sends his own child to a private school. He doesn’t like the quality of education in public schools provided by the teachers he represents?
Ironies are noteworthy aren’t they?
They need to set a date to reopen and note that any teachers not returning will be considered a being on a illegal strike and the contract will be terminated along with the teachers
Actually these protesters can go pound sand. Otherwise they can show where a public school is open and available for two-year-olds.
Something I saw several years ago: The professional group with the highest percentage of its children in private school is public school teachers.
It’s fine that the schools are closed—less chance of poisoning the childrens minds.
pretty soon, voters will no on school budgets at the local level and the education system up until 2020 will go up in smoke.
A high percentage of public school teachers have their own kids in private schools.
That’s telling too...
Of course.
Knowing exactly how bad public teachers are, wouldn’t you send your kid to a private school? (or homeschool?)
The icing on the cake is that he gets to use money extorted from those same public school teachers to pay for private school.
Somewhere north of 75% is the number of Chicago public school teachers who have their children in private schooling
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
I don’t care how many times a day we’re hit with this kind of stupidity but I just can’t believe people are still so blatant about their behavior without a clue about their hypocrisy! Berkeley? The answer to SOME of the puzzle..
Biden’s focus is to protect democrat voters... the REAL ‘essential’ people in the eyes of our ‘elite’ thugs.
So, the new order includes all ‘educators’... teachers from K through PhD professors.
To hell with the average American.
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