Posted on 02/04/2022 5:03:17 PM PST by lightman
On Thursday, schools in Douglas County, Colorado closed after hundreds of teachers called in sick to protest against several actions carried out by the newly-elected school board, which became majority conservative in November.
According to local outlet CPR News, by mid-day Wednesday, there were around 1,500 unfilled teacher absences for the following day. In total, there are about 3,300 licensed teachers in the school district.
The district then canceled preschool through high school classes because “the number of absences has impacted our ability to provide a safe and supervised learning environment for students,” according to a tweet posted by the school district. Reportedly, a rally against the new school board was also scheduled for Thursday.
“The mass sick day for teachers and the planned rally is the latest in rising tensions and tumult in the school district that started last year,” the report stated. “Four new conservative-leaning board members turned over the board in the November election, pushed into office by a wave of parents and others opposed to masks in school.”
The new school board “quickly” eliminated the school mask mandate, voted to change the district’s equity policy, and is advocating to remove the district’s superintendent, Corey Wise.
CPR News reported that the school board’s efforts to “dismantle” the district’s equity policy has “angered some parents and school officials.
“A new resolution passed by the board last week directs the superintendent to recommend changes to the equity policy that reflect the new principles in the resolution. One of those is that no policy should ‘impose stereotypical beliefs and actions of an identity group onto a student,’” the report explained. “Supporters of the policy say that is not the intent of the original policy, which was passed unanimously last spring. They say the intent is to guide the predominantly white district in addressing unfair practices and complaints of racism, and to make student resources more representative of different groups of people. It creates an equity advisory committee, which has already met several times, to assist the school in this task.”
CPR News noted that the board member who drafted the proposal is not “rewriting” the equity policy, but that it is meant to get “more public input” on how the word “equity” is used in schools, which she said led to “shaming and retaliation against teachers, students and staff who express views and opinions that are counter to others’ views and opinions.”
Dock their pay. Then vote to cancel their union contracts.
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Fire them.
Be sure to record the identity of all those who called in sick. They should all be replaced by teachers who don’t practice indoctrination.
Fire them all!
Fire all of them.
Three words: air traffic controllers.
For the kids sake, ya know.
What happened to teachers who actually want to teach?
All these teachers want to do is indoctrinate.
Just look for the Union label.
If I were a parent of a student whose teacher(s) sick out...I’d MAKE SURE they were fired...or surreptiously make their life VERY uncomfortable
Easy way to deal with them - force them to get doctor’s notes (you know, just like kids) for now on. It’s a test of wills, and only the strongest will survive.
FIRE everyone of them see PATCO and Reagan
Exactly right.
The whole idea of public employee unions is ludicrous.
Fire them all.
Let the Union sue in court.
Teaching. A “profession” involving low standards and high barriers to entry.
I wonder how long it will be before taxpayers start suing for the school system’s failure to operate. Taxpayers are paying for schools, teachers, infrastructure,etc. in order for their children to be properly educated. That hasn’t been happening for some time now. Sounds like grounds for multiple lawsuits.
.........many of the parents would be willing to conduct classes on a “volunteer, no pay” basis until NEW teachers could be hired.
I imagine too that some of these parents in terms of life accomplishments and IQ would represent a tremendous improvement over these striking teachers.
Insurrection
Seems to me that our leftists/communists were all for prosecuting/persecuting ‘illegal’ job actions.
Has that changed ?
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