Posted on 08/06/2020 1:25:13 PM PDT by Kaslin
A Kaiser Family Foundation poll out this morning found 60 percent of parents whose children normally attend school say it’s better to resume in-person classes later to make sure the risk of contracting the novel coronavirus is as low as possible.
If teacher’s really cared about kids, they wouldn’t be demanding that police be removed from schools.
Teachers are the pawns of activist Leftist Unions. No surprise here.
Those who are indoctrinating our kids are true believers, aka useful idiots. While the leftist elite are more aware that they are simply sowing chaos in an effort to unseat President Trump, the minions in the indoctrination trade believe the party line. Corona is a monster that should be avoided at all costs! Shut everything done, sacrifice whatever we must to contain this brutal killer of 0.03% of everyone who is infected!
If Teachers Won’t Teach, Follow Ronald Reagan’s Example and Fire Them
Townhall.com ^ | August 5, 2020 | Bob Barr
Posted on 8/5/2020, 10:17:41 AM by Kaslin
When 13,000 air traffic controllers walked off the job in August 1981, President Ronald Reagan had this to say: “Tell them when the strike’s over, they don’t have any jobs.” The media, not yet fully familiar with the seriousness with which Reagan intended to govern, scoffed at the president’s threat. But it was not a bluff. Two days later, when more than 11,000 controllers refused to come back, Reagan fired them all. It was a powerful move, and demonstrated to the entire country that essential public employees serve the public, not union bosses. America’s public school teachers should be reminded of this fact.
With thousands of teachers across the country currently protesting a return to the classroom because of COVID fears, Reagan’s example is particularly relevant. Like air traffic controllers, teachers sign employment contracts. While air traffic controllers contract with the federal government and teachers with local school districts, the principle is the same: perform the duties for which you were hired, or be fired.
Teachers who refuse to teach in the setting for which they were hired – the classroom – need to stop acting like scared bunnies and grow up. If they truly are “essential” workers, as they remind us repeatedly, then they need to start behaving like other essential employees and get back to work.
Many businesses, unfortunately, have been forced by the government to shut down wholly or in part in reaction to the coronavirus pandemic, and this is having a devastating effect on our national economy. Amidst this devastation, public schools in virtually every jurisdiction across the country ended the school year early after COVID hit our shores in March.
Unlike commercial businesses, however, the prolonged closure of schools has ramifications far beyond the economic. Moreover, educating children is a process that cannot be switched on and off like a production line; the damage to young minds that are allowed to lie fallow month after month, or which are presented with “virtual” learning in place of human-to-human interface, creates learning voids not easily replenished.
“Teaching” means, if anything, working with students as well as encouraging students to work with other students in a social setting for the purpose of learning essential skills and acquiring essential knowledge. “Virtual” teaching is not teaching at all; it is cinematography – nothing more than an adult (the “teacher”) speaking to a camera, with an audience of one (the “student”) at the end of the electronic transmission watching a screen. Raw information may be thus transmitted, but not true knowledge.
What many public school teachers and their union bosses at the National Education Association appear to be setting as the price for them to return to the classroom, is a guarantee that the environment will be 100% percent COVID-free at all times. Such a condition is, of course, impossible to meet and essentially allows the teachers to avoid a return to their job site for the foreseeable future.
Moreover, demanding a zero-risk premise for classroom teaching sends the message to students (and everyone else for that matter) that risk-avoidance is the highest and most desirable goal for society. This further erodes the principle on which America’s greatness heretofore has been premised – that society advances not by avoiding challenges, but by meeting and overcoming them.
There might perhaps be somewhat more compassion for the our-way-or-the-highway posture being taken by these public school teachers had they and their union not spent decades working to ensure that public education remained the only practical option for millions of families across America. Unionized teachers continue to vilify homeschooling and oppose providing taxpaying parents any meaningful ability to choose where to send their children to be educated.
No teacher should be forced to go into the classroom against their will. However, if local government leaders properly equip them with personal protective equipment and mandate reasonable protocols within the schools to minimize the risk of COVID, and if teachers and their unions then still refuse to teach in school, it is time to “pull a Reagan” and fire them. The money saved from thinning educational bloat of protesting teachers and useless district administrators with nothing to do, can be returned to parents who are struggling to pay for alternatives to ensure their children actually have a productive school year.
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it has never been about the children.
it has always been about the union.
shut them down.
educate with like minded parents. hold your own classes.
fire all the teachers
sell all the buildings
keep one teacher per grade
have them film each days lesson
kids watch online
all that money and govt building expenses, and people doing 15-20% of their workload, are gone
kids get better education and can claim they all get the same education as well
I am glad my kids are grown, so i don’t have to worry about that stuff.
They never do that, so you can forget about it. 20 kids per class is to much for them.
They care more about goldbricking. No work and a regular check. Teacher nirvana.
“When school children start paying union dues, that ‘s when I’ll start representing the interests of school children.”
Albert Shanker, former teacher’s union boss
No students in class, no federal funds.
The problem will be solved the day after the first set of paycheck are distributed.
Simple: You’re paid to teach students in class. No work, no pay.
In my grade school days (late 1940s-early 1950s) 40 per class was more common than 30 and it was almost never as low as 20.
While in high school I watched my teachers go on strike in order to unionize. I also watched the quality of education in my school diminish almost immediately.
L8r
What are the parents afraid of? Their kid catching covid? Did they send their kid last year or the year before? Because there were a host of viruses running through our country those years, and some kids got colds. Flus. Stomach bugs. Why ever go to school, if there are any Contagious illnesses on the planet?
Kids who get sick from covid are tired, running a low fever, and not even doing much coughing. They rest and watch tv for a few days. Then they are back to normal.
Schools will open, but not because kids won’t get sick.
Schools will open because of the pressure.
Single parent homes (divorce and pre marital sex) and the dual income family (greed - daddy needs a Harley, mom needs a nice car too) dictate that the kids need to be stored some place during the day: hence the full time/all day school, before and after school programs, and summer camps. Parents provide sperm and egg and then children are institutionalized starting 6 weeks after birth.
The science will then always be invented to prove that formula is better than mothers milk (a story told a long time ago), how schools provide better socialization than homeschooling, or how Covid won’t be an issue even though stuffing kids in a school defies EVERY concept espoused by the experts that use: distance, time and shielding, as their argument to keeping people safe. Suddenly, some new constant is injected which changes everything, but only for schools, not a public beach, pool, etc. LOL
What a joke-
Ten years ago I compiled data for a GOP candidate for a local seat. He had sent a survey to all residents, and one question was the person’s career. Almost EVERY teacher who responded said they were in the business because they hardly had to do any work, got paid really well, and had summers off. Not even one of them mentioned helping children.
As a past-president of the American Federation of Teachers famously said, I’ll start caring about the children when they start paying dues.
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