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I'm a progressive; let's pls stop denying reality
Now in WAPO is a devastating indictment of the role Teachers Unions
have played in the fiasco that is the DC public school system (massive closures that have nothing to do with test positivity)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/washington-dc-failed-school-reopening/2021/01/02/af6d6b56-2532-11eb-952e-0c475972cfc0_story.html
Now in WAPO is a devastating indictment of the role Teachers Unions
have played in the fiasco that is the DC public school system (massive closures that have nothing to do with test positivity)https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/washington-dc-failed-school-reopening/2021/01/02/af6d6b56-2532-11eb-952e-0c475972cfc0_story.html
The unions have shown that their commitment is not to kid's interests. I am not even sure it is to their own interests, as the lasting legacy of these closures is going to devastate the public school system.
Upper class parents switching (forever) to private
Upper class parents switching (forever) to private
Americans are going to vote for vouchers like never before
This hardline opposition to school reopening under reasonable precautions (in fact, in several cases, more than the clinic where I work as a doc!) is really bizzare
This hardline opposition to school reopening under reasonable precautions (in fact, in several cases, more than the clinic where I work as a doc!) is really bizzare
"It rested on a survey of teachers to determine who could come back, but the teachers union said its contract required terms to be negotiated and told its members not to respond."
"Even as restaurants and salons opened to customers, as private and charter schools began in-person classes and available data show scant virus infection in the nation’s open schools, the traditional public school system has remained entirely virtual"
"A combination of mismanagement by the mayor and her aides and intransigence from the District’s teachers union combined to thwart every move, according to interviews with city officials, union leaders, educators and activists."
Finally. Before I get any inaccurate comments. I draw a distinction btw teachers, many who want to do the right thing, and the unions who are playing these games
