LA Teachers Union Cries 'Structural Racism' Over School Reopening Plan

[PeteS in CA]

LA Teachers Union Cries 'Structural Racism' Over School Reopening Plan

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2021/03/02/la-teachers-union-cries-structural-racism-over-school-reopening-plan-n1429475

The data is in: school reopenings do not significantly increase the spread of COVID-19. Yet some teachers unions continue to fight to keep schools closed, even as kids suffer from losing an entire year in the classroom. In fact, the teachers union in the second-largest school district in America actually played the race card — or, more accurately, the Marxist critical race theory card — to condemn a toothless reopening plan as in league with “structural racism.”
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Yet the United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) loudly condemned the plan, calling it “a recipe for propagating structural racism,” Politico reported.

“We are being unfairly targeted by people who are not experiencing this disease in the same ways as students and families are in our communities,” UTLA President Cecily Mart-Cruz said at a press conference on Monday. “If this was a rich person’s disease, we would’ve seen a very different response. We would not have the high rates of infections and deaths.”

“Now educators are asked instead to sacrifice ourselves, the safety of our students and the safety of our schools,” Mart-Cruz complained.

They know better than to say it plainly, but the union thugs are calling students' parents racists!