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San Francisco’s One-Day School Reopening Shows Teacher Unions’ True Colors
American Thinker.com ^ | May 15, 2021 | Tim Benson

Posted on 05/15/2021 6:26:53 AM PDT by Kaslin

The San Francisco Unified School District and United Educators of San Francisco, the local affiliate of the National Education Association, the country’s largest special interest group, have reached an agreement to allow high school seniors to “return” to school.

According to the deal, two of the city’s twelve high schools, which have been closed for more than a full calendar year, will “open” on May 14 for one day of “in-person supervision” so that they can receive a $15 million handout from the state government for getting kids back into school before the -- wait for it -- May 15 deadline.

Yep, just one day. Yep, just two schools. Yep, just for “in-person supervision,” not “in-person instruction.”

“In-person supervision” is union-speak for “Shut up and sit here in this room all day while we count our money.” On May 13, the union’s position was that the high schools aren’t safe to open. On May 14, they are safe enough to open, as long as you have that check in hand. On May 15? Who knows? Probably back to being unsafe again, unless you really make it worth our while.

Unions across the country have been fighting the reopening of public schools tooth and nail for more than a year, “the science” be damned.

Evidence showing schools could reopen safely with little risk of transmission or infection in the classroom? Yeah, they don’t care.

Evidence that these long-term school closures were having negative mental and physical consequences for children, let alone their serious academic consequences? “So what?” the unions say. They aren’t putting one toe in the classroom, your children be damned, until they get Medicare for All, a moratorium on housing evictions, a wealth tax, a moratorium on charter schools, an end to voucher programs,

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: california; corruption; education; sanfrancisco; unions

1 posted on 05/15/2021 6:26:53 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Evidence that these long-term school closures were having negative mental and physical consequences for children, let alone their serious academic consequences?

The dumber and less inquisitive the students, the better... for Leftists.


2 posted on 05/15/2021 6:38:37 AM PDT by Flick Lives (“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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On May 13, the union’s position was that the high schools aren’t safe to open.
On May 14, they are safe enough to open, as long as you have that check in hand.
On May 15? Who knows?

On May 15 they mail out the diplomas.

I know it's rough and dangerous, but because they really care about your kids (and the $15M), they'll brave it out for one day. We should applaud their sacrifice.

3 posted on 05/15/2021 6:47:30 AM PDT by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To: Kaslin

Texas schools have been open for in-class instruction since last October.


4 posted on 05/15/2021 6:47:54 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: ZOOKER
they really care about your kids

about as much as the parents who eagerly go along with whatever they're told.

5 posted on 05/15/2021 7:10:19 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Kaslin

Florida K-12 schools have been open since the school year began on time.

My neighbor the teacher got vaccinated probably over two months ago with the J&J shot. She is the only person I know personally that has a great fear of Covid.


6 posted on 05/15/2021 7:19:29 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Kaslin

I walked in to my Florida county vaccination clinic and got my second shot of Moderna weeks ago about 15 minutes after showing up.

My local Wal-Mart now offers vaccination, with few takers.

It’s probably going to get much harder to get vaccinated against Covid in the future because most vaccination sites are going to get closed down.


7 posted on 05/15/2021 7:25:03 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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I see no reason that my 84 year old husband, our son and I who will turn 80 in August get checked for the virus and get the vaccine, as we are on voluntary quarantine. Our son does the grocery shopping. He only lets me go with him when I complain enough that I am tired of sitting at home. I have trouble walking due to a degenerative disc decease and degenative Hipjoint decease that I have. I can only walk with a cane, and that is very hard.
8 posted on 05/15/2021 7:56:49 AM PDT by Kaslin (Joe Biden will never be my President, and neither will Kamala Harris)
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To: Kaslin
 
 
Buncha crooks gaming the system is what's going on.
 
 

9 posted on 05/15/2021 7:59:03 AM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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Whoopi Goldberg visited East Orange (at the western border of the Newark NJ welfare reservation) to whip those reluctant blacks into getting their “vaccines”...

Pathetic


10 posted on 05/15/2021 9:58:36 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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I believe the ongoing mail strike/work slowdown is one segment of gubmint workers resenting that another (the teachers) has been able to spend 14 months in their pajamas.


11 posted on 05/15/2021 9:59:38 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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