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Parents Who Opt Out of Public Schools Don't Deserve Smears From Teachers Unions
Reason Magazine ^ | 01/25/2021 | Daryl James and Erica Smith

Posted on 01/25/2021 4:30:04 PM PST by tbw2

Union leaders shame parents, arguing that equity gaps will widen if parents pull their children out of public schools.

Parents who bring their children together in small learning groups during the pandemic not only get labeled as eccentric, but also as segregationists guilty of promoting racial division in a nation with an ugly history of "separate but equal."

The National Education Association lays out the talking point in a recent policy paper, and industry insiders have repeated the claim on dozens of platforms. Using loaded terms like "radical" and "unqualified," they have sounded the alarm about a massive parental revolt.

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TOPICS: Education; Society
KEYWORDS: arth; education; equity; homeschooling; sjw
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To: tbw2

Union teachers who opt out of the classrooms in order to continue to receive paychecks while doing nothing should be smeared, insulted, derided and called ugly names.


21 posted on 01/25/2021 6:06:09 PM PST by arthurus ( covfefe tom)
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To: tbw2

So, the unions are saying parent a who educates their kids themselves are both: (1) giving those kids an inferior education, and also: (2) giving their kids an unfair advantage.


22 posted on 01/25/2021 6:16:42 PM PST by Fido969 (,i.)
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To: tbw2

Actually this should be used as the reason they are leaving. You can’t teach because you all are too busy indoctranating, so my kid will never learn, and you and your union no longer serve a purpose.


23 posted on 01/25/2021 6:47:25 PM PST by The MAGA-Deplorian (It is the Trump way! It is the only way)
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To: tbw2

A “smear” from the NEA is far less than what the kids would get from crossing the Teamsters. You are going to make your kid ride the bus from the kitchen to the family room for his home school, right?


24 posted on 01/25/2021 6:52:27 PM PST by KarlInOhio (The greatest threat to world freedom is the Chinese Communist Party and Joe Biden is their puppet.)
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To: Da Coyote

Spot on! 👍


25 posted on 01/25/2021 6:53:55 PM PST by SandwicheGuy (“Feels Up and Heels Up 2020”)
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