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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...


TOPICS: Education; Society
KEYWORDS: arth; education; equity; homeschooling; sjw
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1 posted on 01/25/2021 4:30:04 PM PST by tbw2
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Parents Who Opt Out of Public Schools Don’t Deserve Smears From Teachers Unions
Union leaders shame parents, arguing that equity gaps will widen if parents pull their children out of public schools.
https://reason.com/2021/01/25/parents-who-opt-out-of-public-schools-dont-deserve-smears-from-teachers-unions/


2 posted on 01/25/2021 4:30:23 PM PST by tbw2
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Teachers unions are criminal organizations.

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3 posted on 01/25/2021 4:31:59 PM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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the only way to enforce accountability on corrupt public schools is reduce enrollment, particularly in the lower grades.

most states like here in WA, public school districts are reimbursed on a per student basis... drops in enrollments leads to deficits.


4 posted on 01/25/2021 4:33:33 PM PST by sheehan (DEPORT ALL ILLEGALS.)
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To: Lurker

And they’ve made themselves utterly useless over the past year.

(Do you want someone that stupid teaching your child in the first place?)


5 posted on 01/25/2021 4:34:20 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("Corn Pop was a bad dude. He ran a bunch of bad boys.")
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To: tbw2

Parents who truly hate their children send them to Public School.


6 posted on 01/25/2021 4:38:13 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: tbw2

Teachers are refusing to go back to work in the classrooms and then complaining that parents are pulling their kids out of public schools.

Goes to show that there’s nothing you can do to satisfy the entitlement mentality minded.


7 posted on 01/25/2021 4:38:15 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith.....)
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It seems to me that the K-12 professionals are, for whatever reason, actively harmful to the nation’s children.


8 posted on 01/25/2021 4:40:32 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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There is talk about Colleges and Universities not recognizing homeschooled children’s education for purposes of admission.


9 posted on 01/25/2021 4:43:15 PM PST by ocrp1982 ( Long before the Wuhan Virus )
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To: Lurker

Amen! They do not give a flip about the children except to radicalize and hold them hostage for their benefit.


10 posted on 01/25/2021 4:44:38 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: tbw2

Any parent who cares what the teachers’ unions think of him needs his head examined.


11 posted on 01/25/2021 4:44:52 PM PST by Tax-chick ("We treat presidents like kings, when they are only employees -- and temps, at that." ~ KDW)
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I'm old enough to remember when teachers were respected members of the community.

Get your children out of those public cess pools, now!

12 posted on 01/25/2021 4:45:50 PM PST by blam
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This is called taking care of the family. It’s not Horse Stealing! Those kids don’t belong to the school.


13 posted on 01/25/2021 4:48:25 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Navy Patriot

I put my 4 kids in private school from 2000-2010, then 2010-2020 when things got pricey and I found a supposedly “good” district, and now my remaining two are closing out their high school years in 1) private school and 2) homeschooling.

Best decision ever to leave public school! Covid and the public schools’ continued closures and awful, soul deadening, ineffective “remote learning” was just the last straw.

I’d rather have my daughter in only part time in her new Christian school than full time back in public.

Good riddance! CA truly hates children, teens, sports, church, and education.


14 posted on 01/25/2021 4:51:03 PM PST by olivia3boys
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CA truly hates children, teens, sports, church, and education.

And Civilization ...

15 posted on 01/25/2021 5:00:40 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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There is talk about Colleges and Universities not recognizing homeschooled children’s education for purposes of admission.

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A lot of kids who go to college should be doing something else ... like this:

Reviving Blue Collar Work: How to Start a Career in the Trades
https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/reviving-blue-collar-work-how-to-start-a-career-in-the-trades/


16 posted on 01/25/2021 5:00:46 PM PST by Qiviut (2020 Election steal result: We are beginning our "40 years of wandering in the Wilderness".)
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Members of any teacher’s union deserve derision to the Nth power - where N is a very large number.

Strike one: The easiest degree in college with no actual intellectual or workplace value. They’d fail a 1900 high school completion exam.

Strike two: Joined a corrupt union which actively supports the sleaziest party in the multiverse. It’s never “for the kids”. It’s for the dorks and dorkets.

Strike three: They are the REASON publik skoolz suck the big one.

Fire their smarmy, ill educated, and quite worthless Obamaholes.


17 posted on 01/25/2021 5:03:41 PM PST by Da Coyote
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They’re right. It seems like the only reliable way to reduce the black-white gap, is to cripple the education of white kids.

That’s what they’re really saying, if you pay attention.


18 posted on 01/25/2021 5:06:53 PM PST by SauronOfMordor (A Leftist can't enjoy life unless they are controlling, hurting, or destroying others)
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Didn’t President Obama send his children to private school?


19 posted on 01/25/2021 5:08:25 PM PST by nickcarraway
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There is talk about Colleges and Universities not recognizing homeschooled children’s education for purposes of admission.

This is easy enough to get around. Private schools and homeschoolers just make it part of their last semester curriculum to get their GED, along with SAT and ACT. For private school and home school kids, the test will be a joke.

Is it a big deal if they wrote in other requirements that made it impossible for homeschoolers to attend an ivy school? Not at all! How many CEOs and millionaires are there that couldn't be where they are without that ivy league education? None. When we do interviews, we look for the degree, ask about the GPA, and I'll ask a few qualifying questions to make sure they learned something from it. Otherwise, couldn't care less what college they went too as long as they know the principles and can apply it to their role.

20 posted on 01/25/2021 5:39:00 PM PST by Marko413
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