July 31, 2020 By Andrea Widburg
Teachers’
unions, which invariably hew hard left, have seen the Wuhan virus as an
opportunity. They’ve insisted that, before their members return to
school, communities need to make some promises, such as shutting down
the competition (i.e., charter schools), giving illegal aliens full
medical benefits, testing everyone in the entire community around the
school for free, and so on.
Now,
though, they’re going one better: The unions are insisting that
teachers shouldn’t be required to teach either in the classroom or, if
at all possible, online although they should still get paid. I am
exaggerating only slightly.
First,
let me state my bias: My dad, a Democrat, was a public school teacher
from the 1960s through the 1980s. He routinely came home from union
meetings apoplectically angry because the union wanted to dumb down the
curriculum. (Teaching in Ebonics was already bruited about then.)
I
was an urban public school student in the 1960s and 1970s, which meant I
saw incompetent teachers get lifetime sinecures thanks to the unions. I
was also the parent of public school students for most of the last two
decades . . . and nothing had changed.
I
am not a fan of the teachers’ unions, nor am I a fan of the fact that
the unions encourage teachers to view themselves as perpetual victims. I
know with certainty that there are wonderful, dedicated, inspired,
hard-working, creative, intelligent teachers out there. My dad was one,
and I’ve met so many others. If you are one of those teachers, I salute
you.
However,
the great teachers are too often offset by teachers (women I've known
going back to kindergarten) who flood my Facebook feed with their
union-created posts. These posts make teaching elementary school sound
worse than slaving in a Siberian gulag, being on a road crew in Texas in
the summer, or working a 40-hour week stocking shelves at Lowes.
So you’re all clear now: I am biased...............To Read More....
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