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BUSTED: What a San Francisco Bay Area Teachers' Union President Was Caught Doing Should Have Parents' Blood Boiling
Townhall ^ | 03/01/2021 | Matt Vespa

Posted on 03/01/2021 7:41:44 AM PST by SeekAndFind

You cannot make this up. Actually, nothing is shocking anymore. What if I were to tell you that a teachers’ union president quarterbacked an effort to keep schools closed, but then was caught dropping his daughter off at an in-person preschool? You’re probably not shocked. We have a class of people who think the rules don’t apply to them. It has infested the political class. It reeks of it on the Hill. And public-sector unions are no different. It should make parents’ blood boil (via KQED):

Parent groups are crying "hypocrisy" after a video surfaced showing the president of the Berkeley teachers union dropping off his two-year-old daughter at an in-person preschool.

Matt Meyer, president of the Berkeley Federation of Teachers, has fought for what he called the "gold standard" for the teachers he represents — saying Berkeley schools should only reopen to in-person learning when educators are vaccinated, among other criteria.

A tentative plan between the Berkeley Unified School District and Berkeley Federation of Teachers in mid-February would see preschoolers through second grade returning to class at the end of March and other grades staggering back to in-person learning through April, according to Berkeleyside.

But some Berkeley parents have claimed that the union is moving too slow and are pushing for earlier school reopenings. They have long argued — and the Center For Disease Control and Prevention has agreed — that schools are safe to reopen without vaccinations for all teachers.

Looking to prove a double-standard by the Berkeley Federation of Teachers union president, they followed Meyer and his 2-year-old daughter to her preschool, camera in hand. The footage they captured has ignited the ire of parents groups fighting teachers unions — and Meyer in particular.

Here is the YouTube video. One of the union demands before a return to the classroom was every teacher vaccinated. How long has Matt Meyer’s daughter been attending in-person private school?
2/3https://t.co/dCQNK0nUeQ— Reopen California Schools (@ReopenCASchools) February 28, 2021

Perfect pic.twitter.com/7mIs3hjkbo— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) March 1, 2021

This isn’t the first-time teachers, or their unions have been caught acting deplorably, as parents deal with the mental health issues at home. Kids are seeing massive spikes in cases of anxiety and depression. And yes, some are tragically committing suicide. It’s why San Francisco wants to reopen. It’s why Clark County, Nevada, is pursuing reopening as quickly as possible; student suicides are on the uptick. Some teachers and their unions don’t appear to care. They’re more worried about limiting their ability to comment during board meetings. Yes, that point was captured on a video call with members of a school board in Oakley, which is also in the San Francisco Bay Area. They didn’t know their meeting was being broadcast publicly. It led to mass resignations and rightfully so.

The science is clear: reopen the schools. It’s safe. Sorry, teachers, but your extended summer vacation is over. You wonder why you’re being put through the shredder? Let me see, well, your remote learning experiment has failed. The kids aren’t learning. Second, and most importantly, everyone else is trying to get back to work or has already done so. Once again, some of these teachers don’t know how to read a room — at all. There are people who put themselves at more risk than you — and they’re not whining like snowflakes and engaging in anti-science hysterics about schools becoming mortuaries. Kids seldom get it or spread it. Even Joe Biden said so — this act has run its course. And this incident only gives another reason why public-sector unions, especially teachers’ unions, should be smashed into dust.



TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: hypocrisy; sanfrancisco; teachersunion

1 posted on 03/01/2021 7:41:44 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

You cannot be a true leftist without being a hypocritical sociopath.


2 posted on 03/01/2021 7:44:27 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: SeekAndFind

You cannot be a true leftist without being a hypocritical sociopath.


3 posted on 03/01/2021 7:44:27 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Conservatives are more than happy to live under the same laws and taxes they want for everyone else.

Liberals/progressives expect to be exempted from the same laws and taxes they want for everyone else.

2banana’s Law.


4 posted on 03/01/2021 7:45:30 AM PST by 2banana (Common ground with islamic terrorists-they want to die for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
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To: SeekAndFind

I look to see the parents group prosecuted for videoing the union president (and his daughter—a minor!!) without their consent.


5 posted on 03/01/2021 7:45:55 AM PST by hanamizu
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To: SeekAndFind

The fact they’re still being paid while NOT teaching is what is keeping the schools closed.

Take their money. No work, no pay.


6 posted on 03/01/2021 7:46:10 AM PST by Alas Babylon! ("You, the American people, are my only special interest." --President Donald J. Trump)
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To: SeekAndFind

So what?
Nothing will be done by the collection of clowns that used to be called teachers.
And nothing will be done until double standard pretenders like that union troll fears to leave the house.
Really.


7 posted on 03/01/2021 7:46:43 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: SeekAndFind

I know a family in New York, who work for the NYC education system. One is a teacher and her 2 daughters are assistant teachers. They have all been vaccinated against Covid-19. They want the perk of staying at home and receiving their full pay. Why go back to teaching when they have it made staying at home. They show no concern for their students. The 2 daughters also want Biden and democrats to pay off their student loan debts. They are all virulently anti-Trump and anti-republican.


8 posted on 03/01/2021 7:53:51 AM PST by adorno
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To: metmom

Just pinged you to this on an earlier thread.


9 posted on 03/01/2021 7:57:02 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda es)
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To: SeekAndFind

Nobody’s blood should be boiling over what an official in San FranSicko does. It’s San FranSicko. It’s what they do.


10 posted on 03/01/2021 8:01:54 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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To: Alas Babylon!

I have friends who are teachers & want to go back..
They hate being home
But say others are treating this as a big paid vacation & the unions are in on the scam
Take their pay & see what happens


11 posted on 03/01/2021 8:21:47 AM PST by rainee (Trump won)
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To: SeekAndFind

A white guy with dreds? Are the days gone when “woke” blacks might have attacked him for “cultural appropriation,” or do all libs get a pass on other woke BS? (for the record, I’m not pimping the so-called “cultural app...”)


12 posted on 03/01/2021 8:41:34 AM PST by DPMD
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To: cgbg

White privilege clearly only exists on, and for, the left.


13 posted on 03/01/2021 8:42:30 AM PST by DPMD
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To: SeekAndFind
RAT hypocrisy is boundless...
14 posted on 03/01/2021 8:56:47 AM PST by Chode (Ashli Babbitt - #SayHerNAME)
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To: SeekAndFind
hypocrisy is based on moral standards. The virus is either a major threat or it isn't. Meaning those that claim the virus is a major threat actions show it's not a threat.

This is NOT based on moral standards. It's based on fraud and their actions support that.

15 posted on 03/01/2021 9:58:39 AM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: SeekAndFind
We do not have the right to protest against our Leftist Betters. The proletariat must be governed, and Democrat Leadership have such responsibilities that may require, from time to time, certain privileges that may, at first glance, seem hypocritical.

/S, but only as I am not permitted to be truthful.

16 posted on 03/01/2021 9:59:35 AM PST by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Has he resigned? No?


17 posted on 03/01/2021 10:21:45 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Keep the Faith. Everything happens for a reason.)
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To: SeekAndFind

When you are ‘amoral’ there *is* no ‘right or wrong’...think ‘living constitution’, what ever you think today is all there is.


18 posted on 03/01/2021 11:16:22 AM PST by glasseye (Don't overestimate the decency of the human race. H. L. Mencken)
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To: rainee

If they want to stay home then close the damn school buildings, tear them down if need be or turn them into bowling alleys or something and give us taxpayers a break.

Why should we pay taxes on schools that are closed?


19 posted on 03/02/2021 6:01:07 AM PST by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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