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2020-07-12 Home Front: Politix
L.A. teachers union says schools can't reopen unless charter schools get shut down, police defunded
Open the schools and fire any teachers that refuse to do their jobs
[Just The News] They also want Medicare-for-All, a wealth tax, a federal bailout.
and a pony
A major teachers union is claiming that the re-opening of schools in its district cannot occur without several substantial policy provisions in place, including a "moratorium" on charter schools and the defunding of local police.

United Teachers Los Angeles, a 35,000-strong union in the Los Angeles Unified School District, made those demands in a policy paper it released this week. The organization called on local authorities to "keep school campuses closed when the semester begins on Aug. 18."

The union outlined numerous major provisions it says will be necessary to reopen schools again, including sequestering students in small groups throughout the school day, providing students with masks and other forms of protective equipment, and re-designing school layouts in order to facilitate "social distancing."

Yet the union goes even farther than those requests, calling for "local support" in the form of defunded police departments and the shuttering of charter schools.

Police violence "is a leading cause of death and trauma for Black people, and is a serious public health and moral issue," the union writes. The document calls on authorities to "shift the astronomical amount of money devoted to policing, to education and other essential needs such as housing and public health."

"Privately operated, publicly funded charter schools," meanwhile, "drain resources from district schools," the union states. The practice of "colocating" charter schools in existing structures, it continues, "adds students to campuses when we need to reduce the number of students to allow for physical distancing."

The union also demands the implementation of a federal Medicare-for-All program, several new state-level taxes on wealthy people, and a "federal bailout" of the school district.

"The benefits to restarting physical schools must outweigh the risks, especially for our most vulnerable students and school communities," the document continues.

"As it stands, the only people guaranteed to benefit from the premature physical reopening of schools amidst a rapidly accelerating pandemic are billionaires and the politicians they've purchased," it adds.
Posted by Frank G 2020-07-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ]  Top

#1 The teachers union should be taken down before this is over.
They are similar to the police union in that they allow bad teachers to continue screwing up kids. I'm glad they've put their necks on the guillotine and hope Trump pulls the cord.
Posted by rjschwarz 2020-07-12 00:47||   2020-07-12 00:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Charter Schools and Their Enemies
Posted by Clem 2020-07-12 01:29||   2020-07-12 01:29|| Front Page Top

#3 If you come at the teacher's union, you best not miss.

Growing up in the Detroit 'burbs, teacher strikes were a regular thing. I liked it, meant you didn't have to go to school.

Funny thing though, public employ strikes are illegal in MI. But no judge would dare sign the back to work order because at election time, you were toast. Not just the teachers, but the teamsters, the UAW, AFSCME and all their union buddies would be voting against you, now and forever more, amen. Go ahead, sign the order. I double dog dare ya!

<#insert gratuitous plug for the Khan Academy>
It's an invaluable resource if you are home schooling or if your kid is being stifled by public school. It will expand their world.
Posted by SteveS 2020-07-12 02:36||   2020-07-12 02:36|| Front Page Top

#4 It's difficult to read this shit and not get the impression that this 'teachers' union' does not give a rat's ass about teachers or students.
Posted by Raj 2020-07-12 07:01||   2020-07-12 07:01|| Front Page Top

#5 ^Half right. They don't give a shit about students.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-12 07:03||   2020-07-12 07:03|| Front Page Top

#6 The state is sovereign. Teacher unions are not. There can never be 'equal' bartering. The illegal strikes are and were demonstrations of the surrender of those entrusted with the power and authority of the people. When the civil war gets rolling, how many are prepared to "die on that hill". A lot of 'power' is going to be sorted out rather quickly.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-07-12 07:31||   2020-07-12 07:31|| Front Page Top

#7 And a lot of School Boards (you know, the ones that make the policies and appropriate the tax dollars) are controlled by a majority of teachers elected to them.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2020-07-12 07:55||   2020-07-12 07:55|| Front Page Top

#8 Khan Academy is great. the cynic in me thinks, as with all good things, that it will eventually be infested with leftist BS. but for now it looks to be free and clear.
Posted by Bob Grorong1136 2020-07-12 08:27||   2020-07-12 08:27|| Front Page Top

#9 ^Bob, the beauty of Khan's is that it's a very easy (and cheap) model to replicate. If they start playing games ...
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-12 09:00||   2020-07-12 09:00|| Front Page Top

#10 White boards are another manifestation of the "systemic racism". /sarc
Posted by Clem 2020-07-12 09:29||   2020-07-12 09:29|| Front Page Top

#11 Bad enough they are whiteboards. They also have white debbil knowledge written on them (sometimes).
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-07-12 10:11||   2020-07-12 10:11|| Front Page Top

#12 Mozart's respond to the teacher union:

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2020-07-12 11:38||   2020-07-12 11:38|| Front Page Top

#13 AFT is holding your children's education hostage
Randi Weingarten: ‘No way’ schools can return this fall without more funding
Posted by Frank G 2020-07-12 14:44||   2020-07-12 14:44|| Front Page Top

#14 Sounds like a strike to me but the article doesn't say anything about a strike vote. My understanding is that the members have to vote for a strike. Could this be a case of the union's communist leaders getting the cart before the horse?
Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-07-12 15:27||   2020-07-12 15:27|| Front Page Top

#15 Several villages are missing their .. you know, things!
Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2020-07-12 15:32||   2020-07-12 15:32|| Front Page Top

#16 Bill and Melinda Gates, Bank of America were two red flags for me with Khan unless y'all think otherwise.

Still gotta be better than this.

*when the Dims wanted to take a shot at Governor Brownback, they used the teacher's union. And won. Brownback resigned early, Kobach got tied to him, and now we have some 5' tall cat collector who would be lock-step with the Call of Michigan except her OODA is closer to ADA and can't keep up.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-07-12 15:36||   2020-07-12 15:36|| Front Page Top

#17 Commentary in Pediatrics: Children don't transmit COVID-19, schools should reopen in fall
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-07-12 16:11||   2020-07-12 16:11|| Front Page Top

#18 #17 Since we had dozens of school centered CV19 outbreaks in Israel, I'm forced to conclude that the cited article (like all anti-locker/anti-masker "science") is a piece of shit.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-12 16:35||   2020-07-12 16:35|| Front Page Top

#19 Well, of course you're right.
Posted by Frank G 2020-07-12 16:47||   2020-07-12 16:47|| Front Page Top

#20 ^Thank you Frank. I know it's hard to give up the belief that it's all a bad dream and things will soon return to normal. But it's the mature thing to do.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-12 16:53||   2020-07-12 16:53|| Front Page Top

#21 Sarcasm is lost on some, but I'm only 60. Some day I'll get it. You too?
Posted by Frank G 2020-07-12 16:56||   2020-07-12 16:56|| Front Page Top

#22 Wasn't sarcasm Frank. I was genuinely happy for you. It's hard to see an old acquaintance chose blind belief over facts.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-12 17:16||   2020-07-12 17:16|| Front Page Top

#23 I don't - Covid/WuFlu is a problem, but not a society-ending one. Shutting down the economy is both and I refuse to believe politicized science. It will likely ease up November 4th
Posted by Frank G 2020-07-12 17:20||   2020-07-12 17:20|| Front Page Top

#24 Never said it was society ending. On the other hand, you can't pretend that it's nothing. Incidentally, you think I invented school-based outbreaks?

p.s. To me "Lock-downs destroy the economy", "There is a 1000 asymptomatic infected for every one hospitalized - so we'll soon have herd immunity", "There is no asymptomatic transmission", "Virus only affects old people with underlying conditions", and "Gender is fluid" are all the same.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-12 17:46||   2020-07-12 17:46|| Front Page Top

#25 It's about the children, right? Right? /s
Posted by Anomalous Sources 2020-07-12 18:31||   2020-07-12 18:31|| Front Page Top

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