Posted on 02/12/2021 3:27:37 AM PST by caww
Won’t someone think of the children? Perhaps, but it won’t be the teachers unions. They aren’t called the children’s unions, after all.
Those union contracts negotiated not with someone representing taxpayer interests but the state government, which is uniformly Democratic and decides the salary/benifit increases knowing a portion is funneled back to the party’s campaign coffers, and round and round we go.
The teachers unions are the reason students aren’t in school...but Biden is flagrantly disregarding infectious disease experts and federal health institutions while undermining their position among the public.
And so, press sec. Psaki has been sent out day after day to tell reporters and the public to disregard the CDC and Prevention’s definitive findings on school safety because they would require the teachers to go back to work, which they are determined not to do.
A September working paper:..... “The school closures themselves are primarily responsible for the negative impact of the Covid-19 shock on the long-run welfare of the children, with the pandemic-induced income shock to parents playing a secondary role.”
Unions in big cities, such as Philadelphia and Chicago, have a stranglehold on their school systems. It doesn’t help any of those children that students in Texas and Florida can go to school.
Neither does the idea that “more funding” is needed pass the smell test. Billions from the last federal COVID aid package to schools remain unspent,... the schools that have opened aren’t spreading the virus. What the president hopes to do is lure teachers back to school by shoveling money at the unions that will go to pensions, benefits, and political donations — not COVID theater in the schools.
Bidens broken promises display ... a callousness toward those who aren’t old enough to vote or donate millions to the Democratic Party.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
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Unions in big cities have a stranglehold on their school systems.
Democrats take bow it’s all about votes screw the kids.
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