#CNN’s COVID nonsense, Biden’s tax-hike gaffe and more

#CNN’s COVID nonsense, Biden’s tax-hike gaffe and more

“#CNN’s COVID nonsense, Biden’s tax-hike gaffe and more” Diary of disturbing disinformation and dangerous delusions: This Headline: France kept classrooms open ‘at all costs.’ At a school where 20 pupils lost loved ones, some say the price was too high We say:  CNN must be in bed with the teachers unions. Its headline dishonestly implies that…

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#Letters to the Editor — May 4, 2021

#Letters to the Editor — May 4, 2021

“#Letters to the Editor — May 4, 2021” The Issue: The American Federation of Teachers’ influence on CDC guidelines on reopening schools. As a child, after the first New York City teachers’ strike, my father told me that unionized schoolteachers and unionized municipal workers in general were a threat to our country. He was right…

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#Letters to the Editor — April 12, 2021

#Letters to the Editor — April 12, 2021

“#Letters to the Editor — April 12, 2021” The Issue: Karol Markowicz’s column arguing that NYC schools should open fully for in-person learning. Thank you for putting Karol Markowicz’s “Open the schools” on the front page (April 9). Please keep pushing on this. I have three children in three different public schools, two of which…

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#Teachers’ unions don’t care that closed schools are a harmful inequity

#Teachers’ unions don’t care that closed schools are a harmful inequity

“#Teachers’ unions don’t care that closed schools are a harmful inequity” In New York City and nationally, school shutdowns without question do the most harm to minority, low-income and special-needs students. And it’s beyond outrageous that the teacher-union leaders who are behind the most egregious public-school closures pretend the opposite. They’re making things easier on…

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#A teachers union boss’ borderline anti-Semitic case for school closings

#A teachers union boss’ borderline anti-Semitic case for school closings

“#A teachers union boss’ borderline anti-Semitic case for school closings” Randi Weingarten leads the nation’s second-largest teachers union — which is alarming, since her recent remarks show her thinking on school reopenings to be confused, offensive and downright creepy. In an interview with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency this month, the American Federation of Teachers boss…

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#LA teachers union, school district sued by parents claiming closures cause ‘personal injury’ to kids

#LA teachers union, school district sued by parents claiming closures cause ‘personal injury’ to kids

“#LA teachers union, school district sued by parents claiming closures cause ‘personal injury’ to kids” Los Angeles parents are suing the local school district and teachers union for continuing school closures amid the coronavirus pandemic, claiming that students have suffered academically and emotionally as a result. The personal injury lawsuit filed this week named the Los Angeles Unified School District…

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#When did New York elect its teachers-union boss leader?

#When did New York elect its teachers-union boss leader?

“#When did New York elect its teachers-union boss leader?” Excuse me, but who died and made United Federation of Teachers honcho Mike Mulgrew both supreme leader and chief scientist of New York? Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ­finally admitted what we parents knew all along: namely, that there is absolutely no…

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#US reporters enable Beijing and other commentary

#US reporters enable Beijing and other commentary

“#US reporters enable Beijing and other commentary” Media watch: US Reporters Enable Beijing Major media have imagined a racial motive for the Atlanta shooting spree to feed “a social-media audience of woke identitarians — and now the Chinese Communist Party is getting in on the act,” reports Stephen L. Miller at Spectator USA. All facts…

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