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I understand that people are very frustrated about schools being closed and there's a default inclination to blame teachers' unions for that. However, I think I missed the part where:
1) teachers' unions fucked up pandemic response on a national, state, and local basis
1) teachers' unions fucked up pandemic response on a national, state, and local basis
2) teachers' unions overloaded schools as delivery mechanisms for aid to poor and otherwise vulnerable populations because state legislatures and / or the federal government will begrudgingly help children but not their families or communities
3) local funding of schools often via property tax means that there's a wide range of ability to pay for resources to offset the risk of reopening (principally circulation, PPE, transportation) and a wider range of quality of physical plant
I'm sure that having watched abbatoir workers and warehouse workers and healthcare workers get thrown to the wolves so we can have our chicken nugs and home office supplies and 'rona care, it must be jarring to see people organized to say no.
I'm all in for getting kids, esp. elementary age & at risk & special needs kids, back in school. They can catch up on reading but they need to be with their peers. My HS sophomore is ready to wear a mask & distance & such so she's not trying to learn pre-calc and chem online
But acting like somehow teachers' unions are - in the midst of a colossal, nationwide, federal / state / local, bipartisan cock-up of monumental proportions - the actual problem is telling something else. You want nuggets and you're made people can't be made to puree the chicken.
It's the kind of infighting that allows management & politicians & investor class types to pick groups off because they're so busy infighting. Maybe give people what they need to reduce *their* risk not management risk & start electing people who prioritize citizens & competence
