(Lake Fong/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)
Perhaps no profession in the country has lost more luster over the last year than that of teaching. Teacher’s unions have taken the pandemic and used it to extract hundreds of billions of dollars from taxpayers while refusing to go to work. Meanwhile, they’ve continued to get paid because nothing has to make sense when it comes to the government, local, state, or federal.
One of the chief instigators of so much pain for America’s children has been Randi Weingarten, the head of the American Federation of Teachers. Just the other day she posted a selfie boarding a private plane, showing just how out of touch she is. She’s also continually ignored the science when it comes to the safety of kids going back to school.
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Schools in most big city Democratic-run districts have been closed since March 2020, with not even a glimmer of hope in sight.
Science experts say schools should reopen. Teachers unions say that, too, but they do everything possible to keep them closed.
Let s call this what it is: gaslighting.
This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author.
It s been 13 months since my school-aged kids stopped going to school.
Save for a handful days of in-person remote learning where students stare at laptops just as they would at home, only in teacher-less classrooms they haven t been to school since the pandemic crippled New York City in March 2020.
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.