Posted on 07/10/2020 6:06:48 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Teachers' unions across the United States are resisting a push from the Trump administration and House Republicans to reopen schools amid the coronavirus pandemic, instead opting for remote learning that experts say presents major risks to children.
President Trump on Wednesday threatened to cut federal funding for schools that fail to reopen in the fall, echoing a recent bill proposed by Reps. Jim Banks (R., Ind.) and Tom Tiffany (R., Wisc.). Multiple states have followed suit—Florida announced Wednesday that it will require schools to hold in-person classes beginning in August, and Gov. Ralph Northam (D., Va.) in June unveiled a phased reopening plan for all public and private schools.
Many powerful teachers' unions are pushing back against the drive to reopen. In Florida, Orange County Classroom Teachers Association president Wendy Doromal called the state’s reopening order "totally irresponsible" during a Wednesday CNN appearance. In Virginia, three teachers' unions representing Fairfax County schools asked their members to choose an entirely remote learning option for the upcoming school year.
The union resistance to reopening is at odds with the American Academy of Pediatrics. The organization in June released guidelines emphasizing the need for students to attend in-person classes this fall, citing the "considerable risk of morbidity and, in some cases, mortality" associated with "lengthy time away from school." Many students coming from low-income families rely on the meals and support services they receive in school. In addition, according to the AAP, the lack of in-person classes leads to "social isolation" that drives "child and adolescent physical or sexual abuse, substance abuse, depression, and suicidal ideation."
Banks said that while teachers he’s spoken to acknowledge the necessity of in-person classes, their unions "have a different motivation."
(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...
I would. And I did in Santa Clara County in March up until they closed the school.
Is that surprising to anyone? The teachers union is part and parcel of the democrat party.
the dems want closed schools and closed businesses but open borders.
The teachers will lose this fight.
The vast majority of Americans want schools to reopen. Americans will stop funding schools that refuse to reopen. Teachers will be fired and school buildings will have electricity shut off and be abandoned. School buses won’t roll and school cafeterias will stop operating.
America has never had a better opportunity than right now to break the back of teachers’ unions. Taxes are not collected to hand to teachers who refuse to teach and to support personnel who stay at home.
We also switched to private school this fall, for exactly the same reasons you mention. In our case, it was the husband who finally agreed.
It is just time. Private schools handle both physical learning better and distance learning better.
K-12 is only 10% of the Department of Education’s budget. The problem is not with the US Dept Of Education. The problem is the teachers’ unions and the blue states that enable them.
Teacher’s Unions are enabled in Red states, as well....especially in the large metro areas.
Let's get serious for a moment. We have hard statistics that it is the elderly and not the young that are most in danger from Covid-19.
We also know that a large portion of the youth who had classes canceled this spring have fallen behind in their studies and if schools are not reopened this fall, many will likely loose a year of education.
Just what does that mean? Will those who are now theoretically juniors in high school be allowed to graduate with a diploma next June? If so they are going to not be prepared properly for college, jobs, etc. If the schools try to enforce some “absolute standards” on educational achievement, then there will be cry that this is racial discrimination or that we are going to make children suffer because of something that was not their fault.
Similarly, many liberals say that the school lunch (and in some places breakfast) programs are critical for the health of a large percentage of school children. How will they get their meals if they don't go to school?
And then there is the question of those parents who need to work at least part time and have no way of caring for or home schooling their children while they need to work to survive. Then as the article points out there are questions of morbidity, drug use, gang activity etc. where school can help prevent problems.
To come out against reopening schools as a knee jerk reaction against Trump ignores many reasons why it might be “good” to reopen schools this fall. It should be broadly publicly debated. Teachers and Teachers unions should not embrace the “Resist Trump” movement, they should calmly discuss reasons.
that age bracket is not school age. Yes some charts say the very young are at risk more so than small children. Medical community knows new borns still developing immune system and such.
while i understand you were replying to the comment that no one under 14 died of cv19, the topic is kids going back to school and teachers not wanting to.
I beleive it was said for kids to stay away from grandparents because “the experts” thought maybe kids could be carriers and kill grandparents.
IMO if teachers job is to be there for the kids, not for themselevs - so teachers with compromised immune system or ones too scared to work actually with kids, the school needs to hire other teachers, even substitute teachers, or use assistant teachers but get the kids (as many as are not truly immune compromised themselves) back in school and use best quality ways of educationg them.
the kids are why we are trying to save the USofA and not let it become some other version of a country.
online only is a bad idea. in class room setting especially for the young kids, I recall, was atime of learning to listen and follow teachers instructions. Many kids are not taught or fully taught to listen and follow instructions at home. discipline and learnign to do what should or needs to be done at a certain time is a crucial thing needed for later in life IE: running your own house, family, busoiness, at your job, arriving to appts on time, factoring how to structure your your time. We have too many people already who do as they please and disregard other people’s time or not doing things they should in timely manner, causing all sorts ofsnowballing issues. getting up dressed eating and getting to school is all important teaching that would serve each kid well that would be missed by just online classes.
If you were getting paid in full to stay home............. Besides they are diligently working on the new curriculum that doesn’t include white kids
“Redfored” is a strong indication of the communist leanings of the education establishment. They want want pay for not working. It would, therefor, Appear appropriate to apply the Old communist dictum of “we pretend to pay you and you pretend to work”.
I think they get paid too much based on the product delivered.
I’m a teacher...I really don’t understand this position. Remote learning is a joke. In a suburban school this may actually succeed, but not compared to in class teaching. In an urban school, remote learning will not succeed, hell, face to face learning doesn’t even work.
Don’t want to go to school, stay home. School is open. Just like a mask, if you’re terrified of the plandemic, stay home.
At this point in time, I think it is a giant mistake for “teachers” to call attention to themselves.
I hope they have the tape of the “teacher” who said when interviewed on TV...she does NOT teach the curricula, but instead, teaches about the demonstrations and discrimination that is taking place now.
She, unfortunately had a mask on, but I hope she reveals herself someday.
They scream that children are stealth supercarriers of the virus.
In the U.S. 26 people 14 and under had died from COVID. That's as of June 17 so it could be more. Link.
...and kids are only spreaders and consider to be weak spreaders as asymptomatic- do not “project” virus.
The CDC doesn't consider children to be less risky or more risky as spreaders. Link
It can be done safely.
It can, by abiding by the CDC guidelines. The ones that the administration has said are too expensive.
Teachers unions are useful idiots for the Rat party and the leftist plot.
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