Posted on 01/26/2021 8:54:06 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The radical Chicago Teacher’s Union is defying the school board that has ordered teachers to return to in-person instruction. But the teachers claim the schools aren’t safe to work in, and on Sunday, they voted overwhelmingly to continue to teach remotely.
This isn’t sitting well with many parents — especially minority parents — in the 355,000-student school district. They aren’t stupid. They know their kids are falling farther and farther behind white suburban kids because there just isn’t any substitute for in-person learning.
But teachers are resisting because the plans and procedures to keep teachers safe — the same plans and procedures that are being used in many other school districts across the nation that have already opened — aren’t good enough.
The teachers want “minimal risk” of getting sick and they want to wait until the vaccine becomes more widely available.
“We are not negotiating class size, benefits or staffing; we are bargaining for minimal risk of COVID-19 infection, and minimal risk of death,” the union said.
Fewer than half of teachers in the nation’s third-largest school district showed up when they were ordered to return to school early this month, citing high community transmission and unsafe working conditions.
Some, in protest, taught remotely outside on school grounds despite freezing temperatures.
Maybe they each want their own personal crossing guard to make sure they get across the street with “minimal risk.”
Meanwhile, the school board is at its wit’s end in dealing with these crazies.
Janice Jackson, CEO of the Chicago Public Schools, said at a news conference Jan. 5, “We cannot sit back and allow this generation to falter because of made-up reasons around why we can’t do reopening.”
The school system has asserted that it is following medical data and recommendations from Public Health Department,
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they always were.
Fine. The kids are better off at home with at least one parent. Oh, shoot. Did I just mess the whole thing up?
They SHOULD receive the PATCo treatment.
But they won’t.
Proles do not need an education. It would only confuse us. Better to just stand on the street, do drugs, and get into gun battles with rival gangs.
These lazy fungi just don’t want to work.
If Chicago just abolished the public schools, that would solve the problem.
Let the parents make their own arrangements—f&^% the teachers’ union.
There’s a reason it’s called ‘remote learning’. Because the chances of any learning are remote.
Teach from the Beach! (In Mexico, that is)
The teachers just self-identified as “non-essential.”
Time to take them at their word.
The CTU is a criminal organization.
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Next, police and fire units will push for the right to work remotely from home.
The same thing is happening in Fairfax County, Virginia. After clamoring for priority and receiving Corvid vaccinations ahead of others, the teachers now do not want to go back into the classroom, but wish to stay with four-day-a-week remote learning. This is especially abusive, because since the teachers received their vaccinations early there is now a shortage, and those over 65 are advised by the county that they will have to wait as much as three months for their first shot.
Betsy De Vos and Trump were discussing some kind of direct grant to parents to either enable them to be part of “learning pods,” where a group of parents hires a teacher to teach their kids in a group class at one of their homes, or send their kids to private schools.
Miraculously, the teachers at Catholic or other religious schools and most private schools seem to be immune to Covid, since in my area, most of them are happily back at work and the kids are running around the playground again.
Meanwhile, the majority of public school teachers are refusing to return to the classroom because the union has urged them not to return and sends out daily doses of fear porn.
On-line learning? They recently discovered that many teachers were not doing any at all, since it turned out that the kids weren’t showing up. Others were pre-recording a lesson and just pressing play for their sessions (which were supposed to be live and interactive). Meanwhile, they’re collecting their full salary.
Fire them all. Today.
> They SHOULD receive the PATCo treatment. <
Unions have some value. But yes, you are right. Bad things happen when management (in this case the school board) lets their employees determine policy.
Not just the schools.
The CTU is likely a very large part of the reason Second City Cop shut down.
Mimosa’s at first recess time
Supporting democrats is PROOF this is a false statement
why should the teachers even get a vote?
The parents are the customers.
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