Posted on 07/17/2020 6:10:00 AM PDT by NOBO2012
Well yeah, the Los Angeles United School District teachers will continue to get paid for providing “remote” teaching lessons online. Unlike the parents who won’t be able to return to work since the little darlings will be home all day.
My problem with teachers’ unions has always been that they are a tax payer funded entity (via teacher-paid dues) serving as a political entity that lobbies for progressive positions. In the past they’ve at least pretended to be “all about the children.” But the truth eventually slips out as it did recently when the United Teachers Los Angeles, a union consisting of 35,000 members, outlined a series of demands they want met before reopening the schools in face of the scary COVID pandemic. Here are the Union’s demands:
So much for educating the children: first we have to fundamentally transform America.
And just in case you think these demands - that suspiciously reflect the positions of BLM, ANTIFA and the new Democratic Party – are non-political allow me to disabuse you of that idea. Also from the UTLA paper:
“The COVID-19 pandemic in the United States underscores the deep equity and justice challenges arising from our profoundly racist, intensely unequal society. Unlike other countries that recognize protecting lives is the key to protecting livelihoods, the United States has chosen to prioritize profits over people. The Trump administration’s attempt to force people to return to work on a large scale depends on restarting physical schools so parents have childcare.
In Los Angeles, this means increasing risk especially in Black and Brown working communities, where people are more likely to have 'essential' jobs, insufficient health care, higher levels of preexisting health conditions, and to live in crowded housing. Meanwhile, the rewards of economic recovery accrue largely to white and well-off communities that have largely been shielded from the worst of the pandemic’s effects.”
So it looks like not only has the Cultural Revolution started but it’s been informed by the efforts of decades of public school indoctrination programs - which means it’s essentially funded by tax payers.
A well educated group of yutes topple a statue offensive to their well-honed sense of social justice
And who thought it a good idea to let people providing a tax payer funded public service form unions and go on strike? When they refuse to do the job they were hired to do they shouldn’t get paid and tax payers should get a refund. And in my opinion teachers in certain locales haven’t done the job for quite a long time so I think I deserve a large refund.
NOTE: Of course I recognize there are a lot of current and retired teachers dedicated to the proper education of the young and I appreciate that. Unfortunately they are on the wrong side of the Cultural Revolution.
Posted from: MOTUS A.D.
Teachers should not be asked to provide or get paid for online lessons.
If you are not in a classroom, a website can already do better than you could.
Teachers could borrow against their pensions or Social Security to have money to live on.
In Florida, high quality K-12 education is required by our state constitution.
Two of my kids are teachers. Both are staunch Christians and conservatives. They found online classes very difficult for various reasons. They also found that some mediocre students learned much better and some top students did surprisingly poor.
Some students may be better off with online classes.
I haven’t gotten medical treatment from a doctor for about 20 years.
I haven’t been to a dentist for eight years.
Almost all blacks in the USA have better medical coverage than me.
Our local hospital has a bad reputation, except among funeral directors.
My former neighbor found her grandchildren tired of online education after a week.
Anything one wants to learn can be explained on YouTube. No gov’t school teacher required
Three years in a row my child has not finished a school year
Teacher Strikes
Flooding
WuFlu
The private and religious schools are advertising heavily in our area (outside of LA, but schools closed, following LA’s example) that they’re opening in August and “taking applications.”
Now if I were a parent, I’d be all over that. Remote learning doesn’t work. I have first-hand experience with this.
This
Open the private schools and let parents choose
Paid for by the local school budget
I find most of it quite hilarious. Most parents are under 40, and hideously liberal. I take great joy watching them squirm and writhe, trying to figure out how to survive without their complete reliance on the government indoctrination centers.
If they were smart, they’d yank their kids out and re-arrange their lives to never allow their children near those insane asylums. They’d find other kids being homeschooled and join groups and allow their kids to have a normal childhood.
Instead they’re sweating it out, never taking their kids outdoors, disallowing any sort of normalcy.
And the poor kids will suffer greatly for it.
If they are not going back, we’ve got Khan Academy. Don’t need the Teachers Union.
Time to put the buildings up for sale. Teachers can learn to code.
Not bagging on Teachers. A good teacher is a life-changing thing. However, you need to take the handcuffs off of them, and you need to get the union out of the curriculum business.
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