New York school district delays start of year after mass resignations, leaves of absence

The Hill ^ | 09 06 2020 | John Bowden

[Major Matt Mason]

This is one of the wealthier school districts in the Western NY area, and a suburb of Buffalo. Buffalo is home to Buffalo State College, a school that churns out education majors by the hundreds each year. Many of these graduates go elsewhere because the local teaching jobs (including and especially in Williamsville) are locked down by union types. If some of these teachers don't want to teach, I'm sure that some of these younger grads would be happy to take their jobs. Mind you, I'm not a fan of the education industry, anyway, so I could care less what happens to any of these Leftist fools.

[Rdct29]

The district should fire every employee who refused to work. They only need one teacher per grade to teach all the kids online. Every city or town should cut their education budget to the bone if they are using online classes.

[elpadre]

100 resignations - that could be a good move. Some of those lefty teachers need to be replaced.

Hire degreed veterans, and let them teach while getting teachers credentials with full pay because they are veterans.

[RetiredTexasVet]

Stop paying the clowns and give the money per student to the parents to find private schools or charter schools.

[Alberta's Child]

I’m with the teachers on this one.

You can’t have governors and mayors sending people to their deaths in nursing homes, and keeping businesses shut down all over the country in “Day 178 of Two Weeks to Flatten the Curve” ... and then expect anyone with an IQ over 40 to take their word for it when they say it’s safe to go back to school.

[T.B. Yoits]

I'm with the teachers on this. Until a real expert declares it safe, no one has any business going into such an environment unless absolutely necessary.

Politicians have clearly shown they can't be trusted when it comes to this Wuhanic Plague.

On a related note, the non-government experts will likely need to expose the fraud for what it was which needs to lead to criminal charges against the Communist Democrats who pushed this in an attempt to force productive states to bail out failed Democrat states. If they're not held accountable, they'll do this again and again.

Additionally, without laws on the books limited what these frauds can do when it comes to mass health hysteria, all employees need to be protected by labor law from entering a workplace that neither the employer nor the state can currently determine is safe. If I can't smoke at work because it's dangerous, how can I be exposed to the Wuhanic Plague? (Of course this is all just to force these Democrat government seditionists to be called out).

[Big Red Badger]

Twisted,,,

[Big Red Badger]

Real Experts,,,

A REAL expert!
Hey,
I stayed at a
Best Western last night.

[blueplum]

If doctors, nurses, firemen, air traffic controllers, police and garbage men have to go to work, teachers should have to go to work.

Either CCP virus is a ‘hoax’ or it's real. If it's a ‘hoax’ there is zero chance teachers would get it. If it's ‘real’ then social distancing and hygiene should work to mitigate any risk. Especially since Cuomo told his bed-time buddy Fauci to say that children who carry CCPVirus aren't contagious.

[Alberta's Child]

Great post. I agree with you 100%.

These nitwits in elected office and government bureaucracies have no control over the ramifications of their stupid fear-mongering and irrational, subjective shutdown orders.

Back when this whole fiasco started, I said the biggest problem would be that millions of Americans would feel unsafe going back to work ... and these government bureaucrats gave them every reason to stay home indefinitely.

[yesthatjallen]

If doctors, nurses, firemen, air traffic controllers, police and garbage men have to go to work, teachers should have to go to work.

Grocery store workers should be dropping dead in the aisles.

[Big Red Badger]

I’ve Not missed a day of
Work since this
HOAX began and I work with
75 to 100 others inside
Building Aircraft,
No One has got Wuhan.
.
It’s run it’s course,
Damage has been far reaching But it’s Finished.

[VideoDoctor]

It's been said.. "Everything happens with a GREATER GOOD in mind"... maybe this is the beginning of the collapse of our LIBERAL CONTROLLED public school system!

Hope for the BEST!

[gitmo]

This is about virtual school being delayed because teachers refuse. They wouldn’t be anywhere near the kids.

[Savage Beast]

My children are learning almost nothing in their online classes. And they are definitely learning nothing about social interaction and making friends. The teachers’ union is to be vilified for this.

[krug]

30 year teacher here. Our district had it’s 5 before kids start teacher days. I’ve never seen so much: crying, screaming, carrying on, threats that they’d stay home, threats of resignation, begging to stay home...I was dumbfounded. These new millennial teachers are either the biggest/dumbest sheep on the planet or they are the best actors in the world. Finally our district went totally remote and they still cry about it because we are forced to report to the building site to do our Zoom classroom. Babies.

[metmom]

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[Betty Jane]

Check out K12 or other online homeschooling. If they’re going to be at home, they might as well have professionals teach them. Some districts pay for it, as it costs less than the per pupil funding, and the district keeps the overage.

[Savage Beast]

Thanks! I’ll look into it.