As schools continue reopening, Shelia Smith, a particularly caring special education aide, is the latest victim of the ruling class’ herd immunity strategy.
Dr. Mateus answers teachers’ questions about ventilation and COVID-19 at Alabama rank-and-file meeting
On February 27, the Alabama Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee hosted an online meeting titled “The CDC vs. Science: What teachers, parents & students need to know.” The meeting was organized after the release of politically motivated guidelines on school reopenings by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on February 12.
An Alabama public school teacher chaired the meeting, which was attended by educators from across that state as well as California, Georgia, Hawaii, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. The featured speaker was
Montgomery, Alabama uses CDC guidelines to unsafely reopen schools
The Alabama Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee is hosting a special meeting at 2 p.m. CST this Saturday, February 27, which is open to all educators, parents, students and other workers. Dr. Benjamin Mateus, who has written extensively on the COVID-19 pandemic, will discuss the political motivations behind the new CDC guidelines on school reopenings, how they are at odds with the science, and answer questions from attendees.
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Montgomery, Alabama Superintendent Ann Roy Moore announced Monday that teachers must return to school buildings as of March 29, with students following in early April. The policy reversal takes place amid a spike of over 1,250 new COVID-19 cases in the state and after at least 30 Alabama educators have lost their lives to the virus.
Major school districts press to reopen throughout Washington D.C. metro area
In lockstep with President Joe Biden’s push to reopen schools across the United States, school systems throughout the broader Washington D.C. metropolitan area have reopened or are in the process of reopening. The return to schools follows separate announcements by the governors of Virginia and Maryland calling on all schools to reopen in March.
Washington, DC (Source: Wikipedia/Library of Congress)
On January 21, the day after Biden was inaugurated, Maryland’s Republican Governor Larry Hogan announced in a bullying speech that all Maryland schools should return to at least hybrid instruction by March 1 and threatened action against teachers who did not return. During his press conference, Hogan pointed to Chicago, where the city locked out and withheld pay from teachers who did not return to schools, as well as South Carolina, where the state threatened to take away educators’ teaching licenses.
Alabama teachers to Chicago teachers: We must stand united!
We, the members of the Alabama Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee, give our full support and stand in solidarity with Chicago educators, who are standing up against the Democratic administration of Mayor Lori Lightfoot and the policies of the Biden administration by insisting on remote-only education. We may be a long way from Chicago, but we are not far in spirit!
Chicago teachers, you are an inspiration to Alabama teachers! Stay in the fight! We are all being pushed into the line of fire without protection.
Despite the lies by the corporate media and the politically compromised Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) politicians about “safe” reopenings, we have witnessed first-hand the human cost of doing so. In Montgomery alone, at least seven educators and staff have died from the virus. Throughout Alabama, at least another eight have perished as well. These deaths were totally preventable, and we r