Posted on 08/19/2021 3:47:18 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Because we demand so very little of our public schools, so very little is what we get.
Schools closed. Children abandoned. Parents told to pound sand.
Is a repeat defeat for students and parents in the works for this coming school year?
It seems so. What’s not in doubt is it will be another big win for teacher unions. The Los Angeles union demanded a rich array of gimmes before it would consider any return to classrooms, reports Lee Chanian for the Hoover Institution. These included defunding police, shutting down competing charter schools, a 1% wealth tax, and a 3% income surtax on successful people, to name but a few. Is this dedication? For sure. But not to students.
Given the reach and power of teacher unions, it’s no reach to think that in the spring of 2020 union bosses pushed governors to close schools. Then, in the fall of 2020, after governors shifted decision making to school boards, teacher unions pressured local boards not to open with full in-person instruction. It worked once, so, same play again for school year 2021-2022?
How did our public schools sink to this?
We let them. Parents of all hues and politicians of all stripes allowed teacher unions and many teachers to extort taxpayers for salaries, health insurance, and pension contributions for... not showing up. Too many teachers danced to the tune their unions called, not to the calling of a once dignified profession.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The education departments at universities were among the first taken over by communists. The teachers unions and many teachers are now angry communists doing what communists do....tear down functioning systems.
Separation of school and state.
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