Oakland teacher points finger at rich white parents in reopening debate
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Oakland teacher and Secretary of the Oakland Education Association Bethany Meyer tweeted the above message on Feb. 17, 2021. It was later deleted.Twitter screen capture
An Oakland special education teacher who also serves as the secretary of the Oakland Education Association added fire to the growing school reopening debate with a pointed Tweet criticizing parent concern that distance learning amid the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted their children s mental health.
Bethany Meyer tweeted on Feb. 17, All the rich white parents suddenly concerned about mental health can take a seat. Most of them are causing their kids anxiety by pressuring them to complete asynchronous work and feeding into their sense of entitlement. Sorry/not sorry.
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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
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