Real homeschooling is better than any public schooling, whether at home or online
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State and local governments can’t have it both ways. They can’t shut down restaurants and gyms over COVID health concerns, then turn around and tell everyone that schools should be opened.
I would insist that schools should remain closed indefinitely as long as there is a single private business establishment shut down under a stupid governor’s order.
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Parents need to demand that property taxes be reduced by the portion allocated to schools. Start neighborhood schools, get together with other parents and hire your own teachers.
The concept of “school boards” is a disaster for parental interests. Better would be a single elected official, with the election happening in November in a presidential year to maximize turnout.
If you could, but don't, I don't want to hear any more about evil liberal teachers.
Chicago Public Schools have lost over 20,000 students who are not signing in for Zoom school. The CPS has no idea who is actually attending class.
But the CPS teachers will not return to real school until September 2021 because it is not “safe” It is not about the children.
Here in SC public schools are open for classroom learning. There hasn’t been a problem. Open red states like Fla, SC, and Tx are making blue states look bad.
Years ago we had a high teacher absentee rate. My town was spending a lot on substitutes. It became an issue. A not so bright teacher wrote a letter to local paper saying your kids make us sick. That’s what’s going on with teacher unions. They hate kids.
So the unions are demanding 100 billion to re-open and the feds are saying no?
They would like nothing better than to do "virtual learning" for the rest of their careers so they can sit at home in their pajamas. There is a high school history teacher that is a neighbor of mine and he records about 30 minutes of content per day that he produces for all his students, who watch it on demand. He then assigns the homework and sets up Zoom sessions for any requested one-on-one extra help but very few students take advantage of that. They just submit their homework via email.
So his workday is just a few hours a day and he rarely has to leave his house. Needless to say, he's loving it and hoping this continues as long as possible.
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Where were all the education activists when public school architecture went the way of prison architecture: bars on the windows, no doors in bathroom stalls, and 12-foot high fences around the properties?
The teachers’ unions are just tired of being prison wardens, and who can blame them? When the schools just warehouse kids, and no learning is going on, its better for them to be at home.
Teachers unions care as much about children as the Democrat/Communist Party cares about workers.
Since the spread of teachers unions in the 1960s all metrics on k-12 learning have gone down dramatically. At the same time unionized teachers have for some reason decided to call themselves “educators”. Screw the teachers unions.
Google chrome books for everyone while Google filters our reality.
It’s been that way forever.
The education unions’ foremost concern is not the needs of children. As former American Federation of Teachers president Al Shanker infamously quipped: “When school children start paying union dues, that’s when I’ll start representing the interests of school children.”
In short, teachers unions are using COVID-19 to extort more benefits and more money from the education system for their members.
Bingo ding ding ding
The education system is scam any Mafia would to love.
This is TERRIBLE!!!
Let's see...