Teachers’ Unions Want To Keep Schools
Closed — Welcome To The ‘Edupocalypse’
Issues & Insights,
by
The Editorial Board
Original Article
Posted By: PageTurner,
8/3/2020 7:55:16 AM
While Americans across the country continue to work despite the many hardships of COVID-19, teachers’ unions want none of it. They want to keep schools closed, which will benefit their own members greatly but seriously harm school-age kids.
The Twitter hashtag “edupocalypse” has seen some use in recent weeks and months as our nation’s schools closed down and all but stopped teaching. It’s leading to what we think can be called, without exaggeration, an educational crisis. Public schools may never be the same.
You can blame it on the shameful display of self interest by a powerful, politically-connected lobby that
Reply 1 - Posted by:
PChristopher 8/3/2020 8:04:52 AM (No. 498265)
Then it's time to close the Teacher's Unions. I don't like paying for services not rendered.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
MMC 8/3/2020 8:05:43 AM (No. 498266)
Unintended consequences- teacher unions are broken up as charter,private, and homeschool grows..
Parents take back education-
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They want to collect their paycheck from taxpayers, while having free time to riot.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
jalo1951 8/3/2020 8:15:41 AM (No. 498278)
I'm here in Indiana, in school, getting ready to open later this week. Don't paint us all with the same brush. We are anxious to get this year started under abnormal circumstances. Each day will be an adventure and we will roll with the punches.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
hisself 8/3/2020 8:28:51 AM (No. 498296)
Good idea! Keep schools closed so we can't brainwash our students! Within a few generations, there will be no more leftists, although the supply of idiots seems to be infinite!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/3/2020 8:52:57 AM (No. 498321)
Sweet irony. It will be the hated teachers' unions that finally close down the public school system permanently. Fifty years of failure.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
msjena 8/3/2020 8:54:05 AM (No. 498324)
This could backfire if parents find out they can home school their kids or set up private schools to teach them. (Why are teachers not considered essential workers who have to show up in person?)
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Rather Read 8/3/2020 8:55:14 AM (No. 498326)
My grandchildren's schools are re-opening. My daughter and son-in-law have no patience for teachers who whine and moan. They have to go to work, so why not the teachers? I work in a university. Way too many of the professors and administrators are scared witless. Staff, like me tend not to be.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Historybuff 8/3/2020 8:55:32 AM (No. 498327)
Yes - keep the schools closed - Now we need only one 3rd grade teacher per district - that teacher can teach all the 'distance learning' classes on line and we can let all the others go. Tests can be administered on line and corrected by computer database.
The rest of the teachers union members can learn to code.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 8/3/2020 8:59:53 AM (No. 498338)
Sounds good. So, now is a great time to start up the alternative non-union education system that we need and eliminate the union-run indoctrination centers that we currently have. K through 12. Then complete a cleansing of the university system and show the lefty profs the door. Start by first eliminating the Department of Education.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Namma 8/3/2020 9:06:11 AM (No. 498348)
20 antifa members were arrested in Portland. 13 of the 20, are teachers. Defund the teachers union!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
worried 8/3/2020 9:14:51 AM (No. 498355)
I'm pretty sure you won't find vocational instructors acting like those "teachers". Most of them know what it's like to work for a living in the real world, where there are no unicorns or fairies (the storybook kind!), where they have to produce or get out. And how could the students get any hands-on experience with a computer? Unless they were learning to code!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
BarryNo 8/3/2020 9:15:03 AM (No. 498356)
Fire theTeachers and disband the union.
Re-institute discipline in schools, with corporal punishment.
Hire people who have done exemplary in the types of classes they are to teach. I don't even see the need for college level training, if the classes taught are High School and below. Test and rehire teachers based on their previous performances in classes. I can almost guarantee you that the Activists and incompetents won't be asked back to their schools.
Then start on the colleges and universities. No Federal funds. Deep investigations to look for irregularities in income, suggesting undocumented foreign influence. Jail them and permanently bar them from teaching or working in sensitive positions in their fields.
Let's clean house.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
cor-vet 8/3/2020 9:46:42 AM (No. 498392)
Every year, I get into an argument with the leaders of my American Legion chapter. We always have to award a 'teacher of the year'. I always ask about a firefighter or policeman, store clerk or oilfield worker, etc. of the year to no avail. Then when we anticipate bad weather, the teachers get to stay home, while those not so important people have to go to work.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
brownshoepogue 8/3/2020 10:13:30 AM (No. 498427)
Declare teachers "essential". If the "essential" blue collar union workers fail to show for work (strike or refuse to get back into the class room with the students}, then terminate them. escort them out of the school, and replace them with non union educators. School districts would be smart to have a list of competent and willing replacements standing by.
President Reagan had a good working solution to the tyranny of the air traffic controller cabal years ago.It will work again.
The people are indeed cranky, recommend our overpaid, generous benefit package, unionized classroom indoctrinators not press to hard less they lose what little support that remains from their customers....us!.
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Time to close all public schools and give the parents the money to educate their children. These unions have nothing to do with education they are a political group masquerading as teachers. Parents can meet to discuss alternative education that they could offer. Believe me there are enough out of work teachers who actually could teach your children something. It is time for parents to stop pandering to these self absorbed nitwits who can barely read themselves and start worrying about your child first and foremost. The President would definitely be open to all new forms of education I am sure. Mini schools, on line schools, the return of religious schools. All these are viable alternatives. Time to stand up for your children. There is no reason that these under educated babysitters should be holding the parents and children of this nation hostage. ENOUGH!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 8/3/2020 10:24:35 AM (No. 498443)
No work no pay. Time to join the real world.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 8/3/2020 10:24:47 AM (No. 498445)
This is going to show the disparity in the education across large regions, and parents will notice who didn't get the education they expected.
It will also cancel all those boondoggle junkets the vast "administration" attends, which also means less $$ needed, or less taxes required.
Lump-in the reduced expenses at the schools themselves (i.e. heating, electricity, A/C costs), lower insurance costs too. Reduced gasoline purchases for the thousands of school buses.
But, when many lower income parents start to realize their child has been left behind, it will create a massive backlash.
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Orange County (CA) is suing the state to reopen the schools under the equal protection clause. I think they have a good case. Expecting every student to have the stable home environment, dedicated computer, and high-speed internet required for successful "distance learning" is pure folly. Libs don't seem to comprehend that minorities and the poor will be the ones to suffer in such an environment.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
PlayItAgain 8/3/2020 10:41:20 AM (No. 498467)
There are some great opportunities in education right now. I hope we conservatives step in and fill this gap.
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In that case, all teachers should be terminated and all funding of public schools should cease. I see no reason to fund a school system that is not educating its students.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
columba 8/3/2020 10:57:23 AM (No. 498495)
I was an elected school board member in a rural area for a decade (about a dozen schools in the district). I observed the tactics of the teachers "union" during that time and saw those tactics as immoral.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
mean Gene 8/3/2020 11:47:16 AM (No. 498561)
Teachers know how filthy these classrooms and the bathrooms on campus are.
They know their union custodians can never sanitize schools from germs.
They can't even get the dirt cleaned up.
One student photoed a candy wrapper (with some candy still in it) on a classroom floor over a semester.
The wrapper was moved toward a corner of the classroom and, at one point waxed over.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
dbdiva 8/3/2020 11:47:34 AM (No. 498562)
I watched a Michael Knowles video on YouTube where he discussed the demands of California's Teachers Union. Their demands go well beyond concern for kids health. They do not want to go back to school until: charter schools are abolished, the police are defunded, and there is medicare for all.
How about abolishing teachers unions? Or at least "no work, no paycheck." Now that is change we can believe in.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
DVC 8/3/2020 1:47:48 PM (No. 498678)
Start more private schools, thousands of them, NO teachers from unions permitted to be hired.
They are committing suicide, which is great news.
END government schools - ALL OF THEM.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 8/3/2020 4:52:22 PM (No. 498892)
Silver Linings Dept. Nothing would please me more than the demise of the government school monopoly.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
or gate 8/3/2020 7:27:29 PM (No. 499024)
Keep them closed as the teachers are hog tied and the trouble makers runs the classrooms. BLM?
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
mifla 8/4/2020 6:41:16 AM (No. 499248)
Given that the public school system is cranking out students who can't read, write, or handle simple arithmetic, let the schools close. Redirect the money to something more productive.
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