Posted on 09/03/2022 3:45:53 AM PDT by george76
In a surprise to nearly no one, children’s reading and math scores have plummeted. National Assessment of Educational Progress, nicknamed “the nation’s report card,” results show the first-ever drop in math and the largest drop in reading in more than 30 years. Black children had an even bigger collapse in scores. Decades of educational progress undone. Poof.
Horrific. Stupid. Unnecessary.
We know the school closures did this. It wasn’t the COVID virus. It was the hyper-political reaction, from the left, on reopening schools during the pandemic.
The orders came from the top. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued the directives.
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no one did more damage to children than American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten. Weingarten, a far-left activist who regularly pushes her bonkers ideas into our schools, was instrumental in keeping schools closed. In a world divided into “essential” and “nonessential,” Weingarten made sure that public schools were the latter.
She treated kids like her personal cash cow, demanding funds from the Biden administration before she’d open schools. She won, of course, because Democrats rely on her support in elections. But the kids lost.
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But teachers need to understand that the face of their union is an anti-child activist who has done more to harm to education in this country than anyone else. She has destroyed the relationship between parents and schools. She has led a divisive, politicized campaign to stop parental involvement. She does harm to us all.
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Biden administration allowed Weingarten to craft school-opening policy for the CDC, and Democrats across the country let Weingarten pressure them to keep schools closed. The NAEP results are at their feet as much as Weingarten’s.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Worker Petitions Supreme Court To Strike Down Mandatory Union Dues.. The worker asks the Court to draw on its 2018 Janus decision, which barred public sector employers from mandatory union dues on First Amendment grounds
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3962443/posts
Teachers’ union boss warns union members not to post vacation pictures and other details on social media of spring break vacations.. days after the union voted overwhelmingly to not return to the classroom until their demands are met..
as a Union boss caught (pictures) dropping his kid off at a private, non union school.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3940688/posts
She’s as beautiful on the inside as she is on the outside.
~80 percent agree: No worker should be forced to pay union fees as a condition of employment..
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3334487/posts
The Common Core - Bill Gates agenda - Critical Race Theory is to create low information slaves / not citizens who can think / do math for themselves.
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