L.A. Teachers Union Facebook Group Warns Educators Not to Post Vacations Online Due to Bad Optics
On 3/9/21 at 11:35 AM EST
A private Facebook group from a teachers union in Los Angeles warned members not to post images of Spring break vacations online after the union voted to remain closed for in-person instruction.
Members of the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) union were told to avoid sharing images of vacations in a leaked private Facebook group to avoid controversy with parents, Fox 11 Los Angeles reported Monday. Friendly reminder: If you are planning any trips for Spring Break, please keep that off of Social Media. It is hard to argue that it is unsafe for in-person instruction, if parents and the public see vacation photos and international travel, the post said.
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Teachers’ unions continue to resist a wholesale return to schools. The performance of school boards in and around Washington, DC, has been particularly shameful. Maryland lags behind the rest of the country in in-person education, and Montgomery, Howard, and Prince Georges Counties trail behind the rest of the state.
Whereas teachers unions may have cited “science” at the beginning of the pandemic when so much was unknown, they now actagainst it. Studies show children are safer in school than at home. Transmission rates are extremely low among schoolchildren and those who do catch the coronavirus seldom suffer severely. Indeed, the rates of death among schoolchildren who contract the coronavirus are lower than those killed in accidents going to or from school. Practical comparisons confirm the studies: Nei
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A reality that is too often overlooked, or lost altogether, in the ongoing battle over school re-openings is that we are not engaged in a theoretical scientific debate. It s not as though public health experts are simply guessing that in-person instruction can resume safely. Many schools have been fully open, with some mitigation measures in place, for the
entire current school year. This is true of many private schools, and even a large number of public schools. It s maddening to see these realities get treated as if they don t really exist or matter much. They exist, and they matter a lot. We ve had a massive scientific experiment being carried out across the nation and the globe since the fall of 2020, the results of which are overwhelming and clear. Schools are not super spreaders, students are safer from the virus inside classrooms than out in their broader communities, and in-person teaching can be achieved safely.
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Pennsylvania could become the next epicenter for school choice with a proposal that responds to pandemic learning gaps. The state legislation would create “Education Opportunity Accounts” for students who face specific challenges. These accounts would return tax dollars to families for educational expenses, including books, tutoring, or private school tuition.
If passed, the reform would increase Pennsylvania’s current tax credit scholarship programs, allow independent authorization of charter schools, remove ZIP code restrictions on public school enrollment, and protect parents who create learning pods of small groups of students who learn at home from burdensome regulations. By far, this is the most ambitious school choice reform initiative in the Keystone State’s history.
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