The pandemic has left everyone with lots of give and take. In educating
our children, however, don't let teachers' unions take from our children
to give to themselves.
By Kylee Zempel 31, 2020
As the Wuhan virus pandemic persists and wild rhetoric along with it, teachers unions are threatening to strike if schools reopen, but they’re also pushing to limit online teaching. These unions have long incentivized all the wrong things in education, but demanding teachers be paid to do virtually nothing is a new low. As a New York Times headline announced this week, teachers are “Wary of Returning to Class, and Online Instruction Too.”
Public school teachers around the country are fighting for schools to remain closed longer, to implement more expensive safety measures, and to limit teachers’ responsibilities with online learning, the article explains. These same teachers are threatening job walkouts if they don’t get their way and protesting at state capitols and on social media.
The second-largest teachers’ union in the country this week permitted
its state and local chapters to strike if their school districts don’t
take satisfactory precautions, such as revamping ventilation systems and
instituting mask mandates, before the kids come back to school.
While teachers’ unions play politics, parents are trying to make
game-time decisions amid constant uncertainty. Whether getting back to
work themselves is a factor in their education strategies, parents need
better options for their kids, who were so grossly underserved in the
spring. After schools started shutting their doors in March and parents
began reeling, rearranging their lives to accommodate at-home
instruction, countless young people across the country fell behind..........To Read More....
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