They got their way.
That wasn't good enough.
Then, they demanded that all students be masked muzzled.
They got their way
And now THAT isn't even good enough!
Posted on 01/11/2022 4:34:27 AM PST by Kaslin
It started in Chicago, where an incredible 91% of union teachers voted to go on strike and refused to do what they get paid to do, which is teach. Then the union walkouts spread to Maryland, New Jersey and California.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, a liberal Democrat, has attacked the Chicago teachers unions for "holding kids hostage." She is right.
Why doesn't she call a state of emergency and disband the union to save the children from the union terrorists? Or tear up the contract because the unions have violated it? If she did, she would be a hero.
resident Joe Biden keeps talking about how much he and his fellow Democrats in Washington care about "the children." Uh-huh. He has correctly stated that there is no health reason for closing schools. But in this latest episode of union child abuse waged against our school-age children, he does nothing. Maybe that is because more than 90% of the tens of millions of campaign dollars donated by the teacher unions go to Democrats.
It is time for a Ronald Reagan moment. In the first year of his presidency, in 1981, he fired thousands of illegally striking air traffic controllers. He broke the back of a militant union that put public safety at risk by refusing to show up to work. The airlines continued to operate, and the havoc that the unions were trying to impose on our national transportation system was averted thanks to Reagan's bold decision.
Let me be clear: There is no health or safety excuse whatsoever for teachers and students not to be in the classroom, as the first wave of COVID-19 should have taught us.
The nearly incontrovertible evidence shows that school closures have no positive effect on the spread of COVID-19. Many studies have shown that keeping children at home can increase the spread when students and teachers not in school are instead in the community, where infections spread more quickly.
A Journal of Global Health systematic review of 90 studies found that "opening educational establishments may not predispose children and adolescents to a higher risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection compared to adults. On the contrary, children and adolescents were more than 2-fold greater risk of infection in household and community settings than in schools. The school attendance may serve as a protective factor, which reduces children's chances of community contacts in a relatively isolated environment during school hours."
But the emotional and educational progress to children from school closures can be devastating. McKinsey found that students ended the last school year, on average, five months behind in math and four months behind in reading.
Another study from the Ohio State University found that "districts with fully remote instruction experienced test scores declines up to three times greater than districts that had in-person instruction for the majority of the school year."
The left loves to talk about social justice and income inequality. However, the children most adversely affected by the school lockdowns are poor, of a minority and below the median academic achievement. For top-achieving motivated students, remote learning can work just fine. For those who need schools the most, the underachieving, online learning is basically the same as no schooling.
What is to do? It is time for a national revolt against the evil empire of teachers unions that has become the worm in the apple of our education system. How outrageous it is that parents, taxpayers and politicians have to beg teachers to teach. The fact that more than 9 in 10 Chicago teachers don't want to teach tells us of the dismal quality of the people we are putting in front of our children.
The nearly incontrovertible evidence shows that school closures have no positive effect on the spread of COVID-19. Many studies have shown that keeping children at home can increase the spread when students and teachers not in school are instead in the community, where infections spread more quickly.
A Journal of Global Health systematic review of 90 studies found that "opening educational establishments may not predispose children and adolescents to a higher risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection compared to adults. On the contrary, children and adolescents were more than 2-fold greater risk of infection in household and community settings than in schools. The school attendance may serve as a protective factor, which reduces children's chances of community contacts in a relatively isolated environment during school hours."
But the emotional and educational progress to children from school closures can be devastating. McKinsey found that students ended the last school year, on average, five months behind in math and four months behind in reading.
Another study from the Ohio State University found that "districts with fully remote instruction experienced test scores declines up to three times greater than districts that had in-person instruction for the majority of the school year."
The left loves to talk about social justice and income inequality. However, the children most adversely affected by the school lockdowns are poor, of a minority and below the median academic achievement. For top-achieving motivated students, remote learning can work just fine. For those who need schools the most, the underachieving, online learning is basically the same as no schooling.
What is to do? It is time for a national revolt against the evil empire of teachers unions that has become the worm in the apple of our education system. How outrageous it is that parents, taxpayers and politicians have to beg teachers to teach. The fact that more than 9 in 10 Chicago teachers don't want to teach tells us of the dismal quality of the people we are putting in front of our children.
They got their way.
That wasn't good enough.
Then, they demanded that all students be masked muzzled.
They got their way
And now THAT isn't even good enough!
If the teachers won’t work it means the union labor contract has been broken. Stop all payment to non-working teacher and rehire working teachers as employees of .the school.
The only way to break the teachers unions grip on education is by Congress implementing a voucher system. We already have a working model. It is called The GI Bill. It’s been tested and modified over the past seventy years but it has a proven track record and works quite well. Just fyi, I’m a product of the bill.
I, too, am a product of the GI Bill as a result of serving in the Army during and in the Korean War.
And the teachers and administration and education professors!!!
It is not just the unions. It is the whole system!
Fire the pubic school teachers and imprison the union leaders.
Good to hear. My dad served in WWII in the N. Africa campaign and later in the push to Berlin. After becoming a civilian he was called up for the Korean War and served a couple of years in Korea. After being dischared the second time he Went to Barber School and had a little one chair shop in a strip mall till he retired. I too was in the army, three years, Vietnam 65 ~ 66. After being discharged got a BA in Economics. Did ok and am now retired. Anyway, back on topic; the GI Bill has provided a means for upward mobility for thousands, probably millions, of vets. The GI Bill by no means provided enough funds for full time financial support as I worked a full night shift at a truck stop for the four years I was in college. What it did provide was motivation to enroll in college which I doubt I would have otherwise have done. Anyway, this is why I’m pro GI Bill and by extension a Voucher Program. Went in longer than I intended - sorry 🙄…
All it will take is one ballsey state Guv’na to pull a RReagan. Just declare that a single teachers’ union has gone off the rails and is no longer allowed in a school district.
Don’t have to hit entire state or all unions. Just pick one, and put its head on a pike. Any teachers not willing to attend to the affected schools will be immediately replaced by state officials — i.e., clandestinely re-hired teachers that were fired by the union in question.
Scorched earth. No going back. And then get on with other business.
Problems? See yah in court. In meantime, I am getting the votes of all of those kid’s parents. Go ahead, give me more publicity.
Glad I went to school BEFORE Teacher’s Unions.
I got an education I wouldn’t trade for ANYTHING they are teaching today.
If you don’t also fire the school boards, teachers and administrators, it won’t change a thing.
“..Went in longer than I intended - sorry....”
It is a good story, succinctly told. My experience was similar. I returned to civilian life in 1953 and mustered out within two weeks home from Korea. I returned to college the following semester. The GI Bill gave the motivation but was designed for a single vet and I had a wife and child. So, I, too, had to work to supplement the GI Bill (full-time) but graduated on time, somehow. The GI Bill was a brilliant piece of legislation considering the millions who received their education and restored the country to an even greater nation than before.
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