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Teachers union factions ramp up pressure on NYC to go remote over COVID surge
NY Post ^ | 5 January A.D. 2022 | Oumou Fofana and Selim Algar

Posted on 01/05/2022 6:43:35 PM PST by lightman

Angered teachers union factions are ramping up pressure on city officials to adopt remote learning amid an ongoing “nightmare” of COVID-19 infections in city schools.

Progressive and left-leaning elements within the United Federation of Teachers have amplified their calls to temporarily shutter schools after the DOE recorded more than 12,000 new teacher and student cases Monday.

With Mayor Eric Adams staunchly opposing any school closures and UFT boss Michael Mulgrew avoiding a war of words with City Hall, some union groups are intensifying their tactics.

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“This is a large union,” noted a union source. “People have to remember that. Sure, you have a lot of groups that make a lot of noise and get likes and retweets. But that’s not enough to force a closure or spark a strike. Not even close.”

City teachers saw steep absentee rates in the first few days of the new semester this week, with union sources estimating that 25 percent of educators have not shown up to school this week.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: covid1984; nyc; remotelearning; unions

1 posted on 01/05/2022 6:43:35 PM PST by lightman
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To: lightman

Shut the schools. Experiment ended.


2 posted on 01/05/2022 6:44:25 PM PST by samadams2000 (Get your houses in order.)
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To: lightman
First the teachers' unions demanded to be at the head of the line for vaccinations.

They got their way.

But that wasn't good enough.

So the demanded that school children be muzzled

AND NOW THAT ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH.

3 posted on 01/05/2022 6:45:41 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: lightman

You’ve got thousands of parents who need to return to full time work but cannot, with the schools closing and fighting to stay closed. This doesn’t even touch the personal damage to the students who are kept away from their peers and made to keep their faces covered in public.


4 posted on 01/05/2022 6:47:52 PM PST by lee martell
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To: lightman

As someone mentioned on an earlier thread, in-person learning really puts a damper on their day-drinking.


5 posted on 01/05/2022 6:53:09 PM PST by JennysCool ("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain)
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To: lightman

I’m liking Eric Adams so far. What an improvement.


6 posted on 01/05/2022 6:54:57 PM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: lee martell; JennysCool

Related, good editorial and GREAT science.

Real science.

https://nypost.com/2022/01/05/shuttering-classrooms-is-more-harmful-to-kids-than-covid/


7 posted on 01/05/2022 7:25:40 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: lightman
The teachers really haven't thought this through completely.

With remote learning, we really don't need but a very, very few talented and telegenic teachers.

And, much of what they teach can be recorded and re-broadcast from year-to-year.

8 posted on 01/05/2022 8:13:18 PM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston Churchill)
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I’d be so annoyed if I was a parent....little Johnny underfoot 24/7..go play in the freeway kid.


9 posted on 01/05/2022 8:57:45 PM PST by toddausauras (How far will the left go in terms of destroying our personal freedoms?)
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To: FlyingEagle

“We’re staying open,” the mayor said.

“We’re not sending an unclear message of what is going to happen day to day,” Adams continued. “I’m going to tell you what’s going to happen day to day, we’re staying open.”

Good for him. But let’s see what will the union do next.


10 posted on 01/05/2022 9:03:20 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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