Even a $130 Billion Bribe Won’t Get Kids Back in the Classroom this School Year
Mish
Biden wants to reopen schools. He promised schools would reopen in his first 100 days. But what does that mean?
The Meaning of Reopen
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His goal that he set is to have the majority of schools, so more than 50 percent, open by day 100 of his presidency and that means some teaching in classrooms, at least one day a week,” said White House press secretary Jen Psaki.
Teachers Unions Roll Over Biden
One day out of five? We doubt that’s how working parents define open.
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School choice is an issue Republicans have long supported, and it just became a consensus issue for the public. It is past time to make it a wedge issue in urban districts and suburban and rural districts. Urban school districts were hit the hardest by obstinate teachers’ unions preventing schools from reopening. Unions have dragged their feet despite the detrimental effects school closures have on all children and overwhelming evidence that schools have much lower transmission rates of COVID-19 than the community at large.
Several studies show that the presence of a union is a primary predictor of whether schools have reopened. We should all acknowledge that some teachers have health conditions that make them more susceptible to COVID-19. Those situations should be dealt with individually. However, teachers’ unions have taken the all or none approach, which is absurd. In some cases, like Oregon, unions successfully lobbied to prevent children from transferri
Michigan governor pushes for school reopenings as Ann Arbor school board reverses decision to remain virtual
The Michigan Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee is organizing educators, parents and students to oppose the reckless reopening of schools. Sign up today to get involved!
The drive to reopen schools in the state of Michigan has reached an advanced stage. In a press conference Wednesday, Democratic Governor of Michigan Gretchen Whitmer announced that 85 percent of Michigan school districts are currently open to in-person learning and that she is “pleased that 97 percent of the school districts will be reopened by March 1st.
In a photo provided by the Michigan Office of the Governor, Craig Carmoney, superintendent of the year and Superintendent of Meridian Public Schools in Midland County addresses the state during a speech in Lansing, Mich., Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021.(Michigan Office of the Governor via AP)
Michigan boy, 10, loses both hands, both legs to COVID-related MIS-C syndrome
The Michigan Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee is organizing educators, parents and students to oppose the reckless reopening of schools. Our next meeting is today, February 27, at 1pm Eastern. Register today and invite your coworkers and friends!
Dae’Shun Jamison, age 10, of Shelby, Michigan, contracted COVID-19 in early December. Like most kids his age who catch the disease, he was initially asymptomatic. But after two weeks he developed headaches and a fever. His mother took him to the hospital on December 21.
Dae Shun Jamison (Photo credit: Brittney Autman)
He has yet to return home. For more than two months, Dae’Shun has undergone an unimaginable battery of surgeries and other procedures, including, tragically the amputation of both hands and both legs.