cawacko (01-27-2021), Darth Omar (01-27-2021)
Chicago Public Schools, the third-largest school district in the nation, wanted around 10,000 kindergarten through eighth-grade teachers and other staffers to return to prepare to welcome roughly 70,000 students back to class on Feb.1.
The union has said the district's safety plan falls short. Coronavirus vaccinations would need to be more widespread and different metrics to measure infections would also need to be implemented before the return of teachers and staff.
In response, the union thanked Biden for his remarks, saying it was "Exactly what educators have been saying."
"Thank you, President Biden. Exactly what educators have been saying, and responses from parents have shown since last March," a union tweet read.
chool officials have argued that remote learning isn't working for all students, including many low income and Black and Latino students who make up the majority of the district. The district's safety plan includes thousands of air purifiers, more cleaning and a voluntary testing program.
"Students in over 130 private and parochial schools and over 2,000 early learning centers across the city have been safely learning in their classrooms since the fall, and we must provide that same option to our families who, through no fault of their own, have been unable to make remote learning work for their children," the district said in a statement over the weekend. "We’ve seen grades, attendance, and enrollment drop significantly for many of our students in recent months, and the impact has been felt most by our Black and Latinx students."
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bid...hers-in-person
cawacko (01-27-2021), Darth Omar (01-27-2021)
The kids have not come first for a very long time.
This illegal illegitimate regime that runs America is at fault...not me.... they do not represent me and I have long objected to their crimes against humanity.
hate to burst your snot bubble, but why do you think presidents should interfere in every local school district policy in this country? how do you force teachers to go to work if they fear getting infected and spreading it to their family? biden said this about public schools, which makes sense to me...but you are too fucking biased to give him a break-
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7 days ago — “We can teach our children in safe schools,” Biden said in his address. ... it possible for most elementary school children to return to school for ...
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6 days ago — President Biden released a plan to reopen schools, which includes more ... Biden said he will seek to accelerate the rollout of Covid vaccines by ... more vaccination sites and launching a national public education campaign.
Phantasmal (01-27-2021)
not really, idiot. teachers have to get close and personal to teach WHEN KIDS ARE PHYSICALLY PRESENT.....most classrooms are cramped, not good ventilation and they are around them for an hour at a time- GET IT, DUMBASS? that is a recipe for infection, dumbass.
1 in 4 Teachers at Risk of Severe COVID-19 - AARPwww.aarp.org › info-2020 › teachers-coronavirus-risk
Jul 23, 2020 — Though anyone can get sick from the coronavirus, the risk of ... In the U.S., the average age of teachers is 42.4 years, according to data from the ... account for those indirectly at risk for infections tied to school reopenings.
This is one thing that makes me want to fight like hell.
A friend of my lost her teen son to suicide because, in her words—he was depressed from being separated from his peers. Her story is hardly unique. This is bullshit. It’s the absolute worst aspect of the collateral damage done to our society by lockdowns and mitigation policy and it needs to stop.
If Biden was any kind of leader he would fire his chief of staff for backing the teachers.
Coup has started. First of many steps. Impeachment will follow ultimately~WB attorney Mark Zaid, January 2017
Phantasmal (01-27-2021)
Coup has started. First of many steps. Impeachment will follow ultimately~WB attorney Mark Zaid, January 2017
"Students in over 130 private and parochial schools and over 2,000 early learning centers across the city have been safely learning in their classrooms since the fall,
I thought of this when people were celebrating Biden announcing some cabinet position for science. Not even science can trump the wishes of the teachers unions.
I keep going back to California and Governor Newsom. All the public schools are shut down but the private school where he sends his kids is open. So either the school doesn't care about the health of the kids and teachers (in which case why is Newsom, who claims to back science, letting his kids go to class then) or are they doing something better than the public schools to make them safer which allows them to open and why can't the public schools do that?
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