Teachers unions have abandoned our students by blocking reopening

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Teachers unions have abandoned our students by blocking reopening
by Washington Examiner
 | July 17, 2020 12:00 AM


Los Angeles County, the nation’s second-largest school district, announced this week that students will not be returning for in-person classes this fall and must instead continue to participate in the failed distance-learning experiment it initiated after the onset of COVID-19.

This decision was made not by the parents or the schools but by the teachers union, which has opposed all attempts to reopen the county’s schools.

United Teachers Los Angeles, which represents more than 35,000 teachers in the area, argued at first that the health of its members and the students they teach was the primary concern. How, they asked, would the schools be cleaned regularly with so many different people entering and exiting at all times of the day? And is it even possible for schools to enforce social distancing among young students?

These are reasonable concerns, but UTLA didn’t stop there. In a report released this week, the union made a series of demands the county must meet before its teachers will agree to go back to work. The demands include defunding the Los Angeles Police Department, implementing a federal “Medicare for All” program, enforcing several new wealth taxes, and placing a "moratorium" on all charter schools. Passing these policies, the union argued, is the only way to keep minority students truly safe.

The union’s demands are profoundly unserious. This malingering will hurt rather than help Los Angeles’s students. Study after study has proven that distance learning is not working. Young children, especially those with special needs, are facing serious setbacks that will take months, maybe even years, to address. A Reuters analysis last month found that fewer than half of 57 public school districts were even taking attendance. And in Los Angeles, UTLA made it so that schools could not mandate face-to-face online instruction.

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There is a direct solution for this. Fire the lot of them and curtail their and their unions payments.

Advertise for Charter schools to open using those abandoned schools.

The union does not own those facilities.

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Teachers' unions abandoned students decades before this.

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"Teachers unions have abandoned our students by blocking reopening"

The last persons that the teachers' union represent is... students.

Their interests lie elsewhere.