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The editorial office
March 3, 2021, 6:26 p.m. ET
A protester holding a sign in her vehicle takes part in a trailer to call for stricter Covid-19 security measures and an end to educational racism during the coronavirus pandemic in Los Angeles on Saturday, February 20, 2021.
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Ringo Chiu / Zuma Press
Parents across America are learning how teacher unions work to advance their own interests, not those of children. Another example this week comes from the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA), who denounced the state’s urge to reopen schools as a “recipe for spreading structural racism.”
California Governor Gavin Newsom and Democratic lawmakers on Monday tabled a reopening plan that includes $ 2 billion in grants for schools that opened before the April 1 education worker offer. A 27-year-old teacher who lives with her 60-year-old parents will be vaccinated before they are.
This is not fair, especially as the unions still refuse to go back to the classrooms. According to the UTLA, schools should not reopen until all teachers and staff have received both vaccine shots. Does the union plan to go on strike if they are offered a single dose?
Vaccine instead of a double dose of the
and Moderna recordings? Do not be surprised.
UTLA’s collective agreement last spring said teachers couldn’t be forced to give live video lessons or teach more than four hours a day on average. The union finally agreed to teach using Zoom or some other virtual platform in the fall to avoid going back to the classroom, but now they want to make distance learning the new normal.
Poor Black and Hispanic children were hurt the most from school closings. It’s difficult to get six-year-olds to pay attention to Zoom, even with a parent helping to keep them focused. But most low-income parents work away from home and many do not speak English. However, UTLA claims that teachers with the privilege of working from home every day are victims of systemic racism.
“We are wrongly attacked by people who do not experience this disease in the same way that students and families in our communities do. If this were a rich person’s disease, we would have seen a very different reaction. We wouldn’t have the high infection and death rates, ”said UTLA President Cecily Myart-Cruz on Monday. She added that the impetus to reopen schools is being driven by white, wealthy parents.
Oh no. Wealthy white parents send their children to private schools, most of which opened last fall. Or they pay for tutoring. Or they live in tony suburbs where schools are open.
California progressive Democrats are pushing for schools to reopen in LA and other major cities. They worry that low-income children will keep falling behind as wealthier children advance. The selfish standards of union first, students last, are seen again.
Wonderland: The coronavirus pandemic could forever change the role of public education in the United States. Images: Zuma Press / Reuters / Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly
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Published in the print edition of March 4, 2021.
