Teachers union requests one-week delay in Chicago high school reopenings Print this article
The Chicago Teachers Union is urging Chicago Public Schools to push back its planned April 19 reopening of high schools for in-person classes because of emerging COVID-19 variants and rising case counts.
Jesse Sharkey, the president of the union, expressed concerns on Wednesday surrounding the spread of COVID-19 among children and teenagers in states neighboring Illinois, saying, This is precisely the age of people in this city who, in states around the country, . are driving the surge in other places, the
“We need to answer those questions in order to understand if it’s safe to open schools right now for the high schools,” Sharkey said.
Jacobin endorses deadly school reopening plan reached by Los Angeles teachers union
Throughout February and March, the pseudo-left Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and its affiliated
Jacobin magazine maintained radio silence on the drive to reopen Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), which rapidly escalated and was pushed through by the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) on March 21. Two weeks later, on April 4,
Jacobin published an unqualified endorsement of the union’s deadly deal to reopen the second largest district in the US, a week before elementary schools are set to begin reopening on April 12.
The article, “LA Teachers Won a Safe Schools Reopening by Organizing,” states, “Despite the obstacles of opening school buildings in a pandemic, UTLA members are preparing to return to school sites in a far safer way than in any other major urban school district in America. This is a result of our social-justice-focused union leadership and school site organ
MIS-C cases on the rise in children with at least 3,000 reported and 36 dead
As schools around the country continue to reopen with full backing of the Biden administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the unwavering support of the unions, doctors have begun reporting a frightening trend: a concerning uptick in the number of MIS-C cases among children and adolescents.
MIS-C, or Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome, is on the rise among children. It is an acute medical condition observed in children who have either been diagnosed with COVID-19, or who were in close contact with a person who contracted the virus, often appearing weeks after infection. Parents don’t often connect their child’s symptoms of MIS-C to their previous infection of COVID-19.
This Isn’t About Safety Anymore
This is the time of year when many public-school systems send out notices to parents that it is time to enroll our children for the next school year. For parents living in states like Florida, whose schools have been open full-time with teachers back in the classroom for most of this year, the process is straightforward.
But for the parents of students in parts of the country where fearmongering, bureaucratic incompetence, and the whims of powerful teachers’ unions have taken hold places where our children haven’t been back to school with a teacher in the classroom for more than a year being asked to sign up for that experience again next year borders on the absurd.