Posted on 12/08/2021 5:07:24 AM PST by MtnClimber
K-12 public schools throughout the U.S. are facing staff shortages so severe that school days are being canceled. Seattle, Boulder, and Portland, Oregon are just a few examples of districts without adequate staff to maintain daily operations following Veteran’s Day. Claiming exhaustion, hundreds of teachers in these cities opted to take the day off in order to have a four-day weekend. Denver Public Schools’ situation is even more dire. The district moved to remote learning for three days in mid-November, canceled school on November 19 as a mental health day, and took a full week off for Thanksgiving.
The school staff shortages and well-being crisis of both teachers and students can be traced to the left-wing priorities and policies of the teacher unions and politicians who run these cities. Most egregious was the shuttering of schools closed for more than one calendar year, which kept teachers pinned behind screens and distanced from their students. It not only took the passion out of teaching for many teachers, but it also overwhelmed many educators whose limited technical skills were insufficient for the remote learning environment.
Fearmongering by teacher unions and Democrat political leaders also caused many employees distress regarding returning to school and triggered some to quit. Despite the harm they personally experienced and witnessed in their students, many teachers supported keeping schools closed due to an exaggerated fear of COVID and loyalty to their union and political leaders. Furthermore, despite seeing their students slip behind academically (especially those of minority ethnic groups and low-income families), they played puppet to political narratives that often clashed with the data and even common sense. The unwarranted duration of public-school closures during the 2020-2021 school year -- which occurred even while private schools operated fully
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Can’t open school if you are missing a diversity administrator for one of the 52 new genders. The horrors!
It's an exaggerated response aimed at control, not health.
I'm with the teachers on this one; it's either safe with no masks, no "social distancing", etc. or it's not. Who could stomach seeing children, immune to COVID-1984 being treated like plague-ridden criminals?
There are dozens of memes online showing children in masks and eating apart from each other in the cafeteria while maskless politicians (who could actually get COVID) laugh at us while they attend large social gatherings. It's outright criminal and I don't think many teachers can take it.
Educators come the from marginal student pool with better than needed verbal skills for their chosen profession. They lack the logic, math, and discipline to be in medicine, or train to be engineers and programers. In lacking the discipline and not holding above average verbal skills the law, politics and social services are out. The alternative profession are around sales, another in person job, that is done by machines these days.
Outsourcing for teaching and education management is here. No longer are their enough union minions to provide the base service. The unions are under threat, as outsourced teaching positions offer much more pay and performance metrics do indicate the US education system is sliding backwards.
Isnt it great, it is exactly as conservatives predicted 30 years ago. Public school systems are down to teaching the sex unicorn and CRT. Exactly what we thought they were at their root, Closeted Socialist.
Easy.
Homeschool.
You’ll be doing your kids and family a bigger favor than you would wver realize.
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In other words, the average teacher is stupid and lacks self discipline.
correct ...
#AbolishTheDepartmentOfIndrocyrination
seattle....portland.....denver...
trying to care.....
trying to care.....
Oh, who am I kidding.
I just don’t care.
re: “K-12 public schools throughout the U.S. are facing staff shortages so severe that school days are being canceled. “
Well, they keep ‘killing off people’ (babies in the womb); expect a shortage!!!!!
I agree that most teachers aren't the smartest knives in the drawer, but they are smart enough to keep from getting covid. Everyone with two brain cells to rub together knows that the kids are big-time transmitters of the disease. Public school is nothing but a big petri dish. Whether it be colds, flu, or covid, there is no difference. Almost everyone I know who contracted covid, got it from child family members.
I’m a glass half full kinda person.
I’m thinking people who were drawn to teaching with good intentions see what is happening to the profession thanks to the odious Teachers Union, and are thinking that changing their career direction would be advisable.
Leaving the Union with less members and perhaps ending it entirely would be the result.
I’m a dreamer.
In Portland the former staff are now working at Antifa for more money.
My conclusion:
Teachers are not essential workers. Truck drivers and grocery story workers are.
From your keyboard to God’s eyes.
I don't think you've been in some of the parts of town I have. Aside from that, the more ignorant a population is, the easier it is to control them. We are seeing that played out right now.
The cognitive dissonance word salad bell is ringing loud and clear! The two signs are:
1) What does a part of town have to do with teachers being non-essential workers and truck drivers and grocery store workers are? Teachers themselves declared themselves non-essential workers by refusing to work.
2) Regarding an ignorant population being easily controlled is a change of subject and a red herring that I am not going to chase.
That's the primary function of the school system.
You'd have farmers and mamas, not to mention a few corporate food conglomerates, storming the educational Bastille!
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