I don’t know that keeping NEA thugs from conducting classes is a bad thing.
One benefit of this whole mess is more people are realizing that “educators” are replaceable, if they’re needed at all.
The closure of public schools is indeed a bad thing—many parents can’t or won’t homeschool. I think about 40% of households with children in the US are now headed by single mothers who are more or less broke—how many of those single moms who are working full time (if they are lucky) can teach HS seniors Calculus and Physics? Not many, I’d think.
We have to be realistic about that US families look like right now—they are not two parent households with one smart stay at home mom who can teach higher math and science. And it’s tragic to stick students—whether elementary, middle, high school, or college—in front of a laptop all day. Humans need other humans.
We need to reopen schools, and quickly.
These overpaid a-holes will make a killing sitting at home getting full salary and showing videos as their teaching.