Posted on 07/29/2020 6:18:55 PM PDT by karpov
As the nation heads toward a chaotic back-to-school season, with officials struggling over when to reopen classrooms and how to engage children online, teachers’ unions are playing a powerful role in determining the shape of public education as the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage.
Teachers in many districts are fighting for longer school closures, stronger safety requirements and limits on what they are required to do in virtual classrooms, while flooding social media and state capitols with their concerns and threatening to walk off their jobs if key demands are not met.
On Tuesday, the nation’s second-largest teachers’ union raised the stakes dramatically by authorizing its local and state chapters to strike if their districts do not take sufficient precautions — such as requiring masks and updating ventilation systems — before reopening classrooms. Already, teachers’ unions have sued Florida’s governor over that state’s efforts to require schools to offer in-person instruction.
But even as unions exert their influence, they face enormous public and political pressure because of widespread acknowledgment that getting parents back to work requires functioning school systems, and that remote learning failed many children this spring, deepening achievement gaps by race and income.
With the academic year set to begin next month in much of the country, parents are desperate for teachers to provide more interactive, face-to-face instruction this fall, both online and, where safe, in person. But many unions, while concerned about the safety of classrooms, are also fighting to limit the amount of time that teachers are required to be on video over the course of a day.
The unions are “really on the backs of their heels on this,” said Robin Lake, director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education, a research and advocacy group that sometimes takes positions contrary to unions.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
It’s a pretty quiet place considering it’s proximity to Dayton. Reliably Republican and safe to put a Trump 2020 sign on the lawn.
You’re 100% correct.
Any parents with half a brain will realize that public schools are just self-interested government bureaucracies, who pretend to do “education,” and get their kids out of the system.
If they don’t teach, they don’t get paid.
I just want the school tax money allocated to my kids, which I paid, to cover private school cost - which I’m paying because I wouldn’t get my money’s worth at public.
One of the unintended consequences of this virus was the acceleration of the use of video conferences and teaching. Now that were all using it, they can’t put the genie back in the bottle and were all onto the scam of building schools and colleges and the billions of tax dollars that should no longer be needed to keeo these places open.
Trump should force these schools to close and develop online curriculum. Start by giving a bigger cut to the teachers by cutting all the administration.
Perhaps now is the optimal time to rid ourselves of the status quo and remove these bastards who are only interested in indoctrinating our young and start over from the ground up.
These pukes need to be left behind so that our future generations have a chance of Freedom and Prosperity instead of the current setup.
Plenty of options that are preferable to our current system.
Hopefully pod/private schooling will lead parents to see how it can be done without the indoctrination of teacher’s union goons who whine about how hard they work.
Every “educator “ I have ever met constantly whines about how hard they work...and how underpaid they are. Spare me. They only “work” about 8 months each year.
Hey ...Microsoft replaced techs with East Indians a number of years ago...time to do with teachers, but I actually prefer 1 really good teacher teaching thousands online
It’s all about time to riot, tan and drink
Of course, I’ve been saying since March that none of these schools and businesses ever should have been shut down in the first place ... so I want this fiasco with the teachers’ unions to be as disruptive as possible. I want to see strikes by teachers, irate parents shutting down school boards, municipal governments selling all their school property, and the children of this great country finally liberated at last.
Reagan didn’t fire them. They could’ve gone back to work but few did. They quit.
If they don’t reopen the schools, I want the education portion of my property taxes refunded.
They’re all Maynard G. Krebs.
LOL. What a breathless headline. Partisan democrats are orgasmic over this Chicom flu stuff. They think they have the magic bullet to defeat POTUS.
Okay then President trump signs and executive order so funds can be diverted from states not open and offered to private institutions who will teach the students.
Sound like an opportunity to finally break the teachers union.
I lived in Montgomery county in the early 80’s. It didn’t take long to notice the difference.
One word. Parasites.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.