{"id":254308,"date":"2021-05-20T01:50:11","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T22:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/teacher-unions-outrageous-cynical-drive-to-dodge-the-blame-for-keeping-schools-closed\/"},"modified":"2021-05-20T01:50:11","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T22:50:11","slug":"teacher-unions-outrageous-cynical-drive-to-dodge-the-blame-for-keeping-schools-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/teacher-unions-outrageous-cynical-drive-to-dodge-the-blame-for-keeping-schools-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"#Teacher unions’ outrageous, cynical drive to dodge the blame for keeping schools closed"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Teacher unions’ outrageous, cynical drive to dodge the blame for keeping schools closed<\/strong>”
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Getting New York City\u2019s schools fully reopened is a huge challenge, United Federation of Teachers boss MIke Mulgrew suggests in the Daily News<\/a>, because \u201cas many as one-third of parents\u201d are \u201ceither on the fence or opposed to sending their kids back\u201d until they\u2019re sure it\u2019s safe.<\/p>\n

What shameless chutzpah. That tells you that at least<\/em> two-thirds aren\u2019t worried, and another good chunk are just uncertain. More important, the main voice suggesting that there\u2019s any<\/em> reason for fear is the UFT and its allied teacher unions \u2014 who\u2019ve opposed reopening for the most venal of reasons, long after science<\/a> and the experience of reopened schools across the nation and the world prove it\u2019s perfectly safe for kids and adults.<\/p>\n

Heck, the UFT\u2019s parent union, the American Federation of Teachers, used its pull with the White House to force the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to issue reopening guidelines far more cautious than the CDC scientists had wanted, literally writing key passages of the final statement, as The Post reported.<\/p>\n

That news has prompted union leaders to rush to obscure the truth, with AFT boss Randi Weingarten complaining that \u201ccritics have scapegoated teachers and vilified their unions because of the school closures\u201d and pretending teachers were blamed for \u201cproblems outside their control.\u201d<\/p>\n

No one\u2019s vilifying the unions: They\u2019re just recognizing them for the villains they are. <\/p>\n

Mulgrew blames the city for failing to make parents confident, when the main blame Mayor Bill de Blasio deserves is for foolishly agreeing to the UFT\u2019s insane rules for re-closing schools on the basis of just a couple of positive tests. <\/p>\n

And for granting teachers medical exemptions without real scrutiny. As a result, 28 percent of city teachers, and up to 40 percent in some schools, don\u2019t have to show even when their school reopens. That left many parents opting out of \u201cZoom in a classroom\u201d where social<\/a>-distancing rules and medical exemptions resulted in at-home teachers providing instruction remotely.<\/p>\n

Mulgrew & Co. also launched a scare campaign, alleging for example that schools didn\u2019t have enough air circulation to keep kids and staff safe \u2014 when all the data show that younger kids don\u2019t get or transmit the virus in any meaningful amount.<\/p>\n

From September 2020 to March 2021, 33,565 New Yorkers exchanged their NY driver\u2019s licenses for Florida ones. The main reason: to prove Sunshine State residency so their kids could attend in-person school. In all, Gotham\u2019s public-school enrollment is down 4 percent<\/a> because families shifted to schools the UFT couldn\u2019t close.<\/p>\n

The UFT\u2019s power has kept spending on city public schools soaring for years now, even as enrollment declines and most of the kids never<\/em> achieve grade-level proficiency in English and math. But the last year has taught the public the union\u2019s true nature, overcoming all its pretenses of being \u201cfor the children.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now a reckoning looms \u2014 and Mulgrew & Co. are desperately scrambling to pull the wool back over parents\u2019 eyes. Don\u2019t let them get away with it.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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