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American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten spoke with Axios to deflect criticism of teachers’ unions and their demands in order to reopen schools to in-person learning. Given what we know about the effects of school closings on children, in both education and mental health, her comments are astounding:
.@danprimack: Is there a point at which kids lost education isn t recoverable?
AFT president @rweingarten: No, I don t believe that. I believe that kids are resilient and kids will recover. But we as adults have to meet their needs. #AxiosOnHBOpic.twitter.com/Dc4H0Hherc
Kids are not as resilient as Weingarten asserts. According to NPR, a national survey of 3,300 high school students in the spring found a third reporting they were unhappy and depressed. That has progressed to reports nationwide of increasing mental health emergencies in children. A spate of 18 suicides among students forced Clark County schools in Las Vegas to reop
Oakland teacher says rich white parents complaining about their children s mental health while schools are closed have made their kids MORE entitled and blames them for the increase in anxiety
Bethany Meyer is a special education teacher at Oakland Unified School District and secretary of the local teachers union All the rich white parents suddenly concerned about mental health can take a seat, she wrote on Twitter on February 17 about parents who were worried about how distance learning was affecting their kids
She said such worries were causing children anxiety and feeding into their sense of entitlement
Some parents accused the teacher, who is white, of speaking for black parents and assuming it is only white parents concerned about schools reopening
02/23/21
National Safety Council
San Francisco, CA OSHA is prioritizing an infectious diseases standard for the health care industry, according to a motion filed Feb. 16 in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The joint motion, signed by Department of Labor counsel Joseph G. Gilliland and Democracy Forward Foundation counsel Michael C. Martinez, requested a suspension of a lawsuit brought against the Trump administration s DOL, former Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia and OSHA. The court granted the motion Feb. 19.
Democracy Forward filed the suit Oct. 29 on behalf of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees; the American Federation of Teachers; the Washington State Nurses Association; and the United Nurses Association of California/Union of Health Care Professionals. The four labor unions were attempting to get the court to compel OSHA to move forward on the standard, which was stalled since 2017.
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