"The coronavirus pandemic has brought too many failures of leadership to count.
When the virus was still a novel concept and schools shut down in response, we understood why.
There was too much we did not know about COVID-19, and the risk of endangering students and teachers was too great.
...Over the course of the year, it has become glaringly obvious that unions insisting on long-term school closures were not concerned about their students’ health or teachers’ safety so much as they were interested in what they could gain from the shutdown.
In Los Angeles, for example, one of the largest teachers unions in the state released a reopening proposal in July that was accompanied by a list of demands.
These included — we kid you not —
- defunding the Los Angeles Police Department,
- implementing "Medicare for all,"
- increasing taxes on the wealthy, and
- placing a moratorium on charter schools in the county.
The purpose of this ultimatum was purely political, yet Los Angeles’s public schools remain closed to this day...Read all!
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