More Sacramento-area teachers walk out of class over district rollbacks of COVID mask mandates

The Sacramento Bee ^ | February 28, 2022 | BY DARRELL SMITH AND MOLLY SULLIVAN

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Nearly 200 Rocklin Unified School District educators called in sick or took leave Monday, protesting their district’s last-minute defiance of state-imposed K-12 mask mandates.

An angry Rocklin Teachers Professional Association in a statement Monday afternoon said its teachers learned the district’s board held a special Feb. 23 meeting ahead of its regularly scheduled March 2 meeting on a day’s notice and during the district’s President’s Week break to adopt a new mask enforcement policy.

“While there are varying opinions on masking in our community and our schools, the issue teachers are most concerned about is the lack of respect for educators blatantly displayed by the RUSD Board of Trustees in making this change,” the statement read.

Union leaders contended that teachers were unaware of the meeting and that the district’s board made the decision in closed session instead of a public meeting.

“Our school board’s actions not only violated the state mandate, they violated our collectively bargained agreements, and, most importantly, the trust we worked so hard to establish,” the union’s statement concluded.

[NWFree]

Replace them with conservatives and see how quickly they return 🤪

[eeriegeno]

Fire them

[Pikachu_Dad]

So which faction is this?

Peoples Front of Judea?

Or the Judean Peoples Front ?

[rockrr]

Winning!

[SauronOfMordor]

Do not pay for time not physically in the classroom.

[ronnie raygun]

see ya

[Skywise]

Aren’t they vaccinated?

[BenLurkin]

[the OlLine Rebel]

Just an aside….why is no one talking about vax mandates anymore?

Trust me, they’re still in force. Esp. In liberalland.

[EvilCapitalist]

As long as they’re fighting for Stan’s right to have babies, who cares?

[dadfly]

great. the kids could use some good news for a change.

[dsrtsage]

I suggest a compromise. Allow the students to go maskless, and force the teachers to wear masks and get weekly boosters if they are so afraid of the sniffles

[AFB-XYZ]

I’m confused. Judea?

[AndyJackson]

We do our business in public - just not our important business.

[eyeamok]

FIRE ALL OF THEM

[rbg81]

Buh, bye.

[joma89]

Good. Time to get leftists out of the teaching profession.

[Gnome1949]

No work = no pay.

Simple solution.

Walk out and keep walking. You are no longer employed.

[madison10]

Even at 60+ I now wish I had gone for a teaching certificate.