Posted on 05/13/2021 11:18:09 AM PDT by knighthawk
The president of America's second largest teachers' union has called for the full reopening of schools for the next academic year, saying 'schools must be open in person five days a week.'
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, said Thursday morning that 'nothing should stand in the way' of public schools fully reopening and staying open by the fall.
Weingarten, whose union has 1.7 million members, admitted that a return to the classroom is not 'risk-free' but is crucial because 'prolonged isolation is harmful' to students across America.
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School districts in my state hire teachers for the whole school year. I'll bet these unions are afraid some districts will decide not to retain most of the teachers for next school year, and will simply have one teacher for every 70-80 students.
Teachers and students at my wife’s school are demanding full time next fall.
The Chicago union is going to strike
That is being discussed (going online full time).
But online/homeschool doesn’t work for most kids.
Prepping for the midterms, then they’ll find another “pandemic” after that, this one worked so well.
That and the other likely thing that parents are starting to realize that home-schooling and private schooling makes for better and smarter kids.
One positive that might end up from all of this is that the far left crapped in their own beds and they aren't smart enough to figure out how to clean the sheets. I think we will eventually see a drastic move away from on-site college courses and more at home study which will kill a lot of the "professors" we have now.
Is this the san fran mastermind who got the schools open 1 day to receive millions in taxpayer dollars.
This woman is slime. Pond scum.
My granddaughter school in fargo has been open since September
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