Posted on 01/06/2022 6:29:33 PM PST by algore
Chicago's schools will be closed for the third day in a row, it was announced on Thursday evening, as the teacher's union votes to continue with remote classes
Nationwide, 4,783 schools out of 98,000 have been closed for one day or more this week - the highest total seen since the tally began in January 2020
An ongoing battle between Chicago's teachers' union and city officials over COVID safety measures will see schools close for the third day on Friday
Schools in Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania have been particularly affected by closures, due to a shortage of staff amid the pandemic
In Arizona, the governor, Doug Ducey, is now offering $7,000 to parents to use on education for their children if schools close - including private schools
In New York, the mayor of the nation's largest school district has vowed to keep classrooms open
The closures are creating a mounting mental health crisis among young people and also costing the economy an estimated $700 billion - 3.5 percent of GDP
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“In Arizona, the governor, Doug Ducey, is now offering $7,000 to parents to use on education for their children if schools close - including private schools “
Well, that’s one way to break the teachers’ unions.
Screw public schools.
& that’s how you do it, play their own game..
Punch them where it hurts, $$$
The divide between prog run blue states and normal American Citizen run Red States is growing wider by the week.
That sort of thing is not “sustainable.”
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“Sharkey, who has led the CTU since 2014, said on Wednesday that teachers would only return to classrooms after the current surge subsides, unless the district agrees to the union’s demands for new testing and health protocols.
‘If you want to get us into the schools quicker, provide testing,’ Sharkey said at a Wednesday news conference.”
Petty delay tactics. If you are vaccinated, exposed and asymptomatic, you don’t have to isolate.
Any state that closes their schools needs to refund their portion of the billions in federal funding they received specifically to fund covid-protections for those schools. It is not the job of children to protect adults. Adults that are protected are protecting children. If adults refuse to protect children, there’s always warehouse or clerical work where they are not exposed to children.
If unions want to disrupt employment at companies for petty grievances, that’s one thing - adults to adults and union members’ personal problem. But when the Marxist-centric unions think they can hold children hostage, that’s a whole new line in the sand.
Sweden wen to school vouchers and the public schools HAD to get better to compete. The problem I am worried about with vouchers is the strings attached. And if any other government program for schools is a measure, there will be strings that choke the good out of the program. (Example: School lunches).
That’s why refundable tax credits are a better option. Make the payments assignable but ultimately the parents have the ouchy moment of cutting a check.
That and have charter schools that allow for virtual schooling.
Most people don’t have the money to put up front for private schools.
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Its workable. Make the checks payable each month. Schools get signed over the check. Or do it electronically. Sort of like how brandon is sending out child tax credit checks.
Makes sense, schools are paid to provide a service, they should not be paid when they do not provide that service. Those funds need to go towards procuring that service elsewhere instead.
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