Teachers' unions trying to dodge responsibility for school closings

 NY Post:

Could the wheels be falling off Randi Weingarten’s little red wagon? Her union has badly damaged kids during COVID, people have noticed, and she appears to be panicking.

Weingarten is the boss at the American Federation of Teachers. Her organization effectively padlocked classrooms across the country during the pandemic, and it still holds too many in its malign grip.

New Yorkers may remember her as the iron fist in a velvet glove at the United Federation of Teachers, which she ran before ascending to the union’s top job. It was a fruitful apprenticeship from the union’s perspective; corrupting public policy by suborning politicians with campaign cash while bamboozling parents with artful untruths is a learned skill, which Weingarten mastered early on.

Her art revolves around the myth that teachers as a corporate body care about kids. Many individuals do, but the union doesn’t and never has. Need proof? Just reference the stay-at-home strikes the union have been conducting since the arrival of COVID.
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Yet here’s the thing: Today there are millions of American parents whose lives were cast into social and economic turmoil because of teacher union shutdowns — because of their refusal actually to teach during the pandemic, as they successfully insisted on full pay and benefits.

And those uncertainties — along with, of course, the full pay and benefits — continue as the current school year comes to a halting conclusion and a new one looms.
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The teachers' unions are both selfish and lazy getting paid for staying home while the kids are stuck with zoom instruction and parents are also lockdown with them.  Children were the least vulnerable to the disease and schools that did open in states like Texas and Florida did not spread the disease.  My granddaughter attends a large high school in Texas and to my knowledge, there were no reported cases much less a super spreader event.

States, where the teachers' unions dominate education, will be set back economically and educationally because of this groups' selfishness.