Dorchester elementary school put into 'safe mode' after pair of anti-mask protesters show up and refuse to leave

Is an endgame in itself. There’s no deflection. The purpose of a union is to always be maintaining or gaining power for it’s members, often times in these cases at detrimental costs to the students who are most in need.

I also mentioned that they didn’t have the foresight to see the drop in enrollment or perhaps thought it would not be so severe.

I have no queued URL’s. A simple google search with an open mind to look at all sides of an issue is all that is needed. Here you go:

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-cdc-recom...

“School reopenings have caused labor disputes between teachers unions, who fear for their members’ safety, and school districts in major U.S. cities. In Chicago this week, the teachers union and district reached agreement on a safety plan after months of negotiations that included threats of a strike.”

“Elementary school students should learn in-person at least part-time even in areas of high transmission, the guidance says.
Recent studies have shown that in-person learning has not been associated with increased community transmission, especially in elementary schools.”

The unions willfully denied science for their own gains.

https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/lawmakers-press-cdc-about-teacher...

“ GOP senators pressed the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Tuesday about reports that a national teachers’ union had input on the agency’s guidance on school reopenings.
Officials with the American Federation of Teachers suggested changes to a draft of the recommendations, the New York Post recently reported.”

They also tried to change science guidelines decided by scientists and doctors. What other group could get away with attempting such a thing?

There are many factors in play as to why they went about it all the way they did but it comes down to gaining more power for future negotiations, getting the things denied in past negotiations, and above all else, money. It had nothing to do with student safety or what is in the best interest of children. That is a farce.

“To be sure, the national teachers’ unions haven’t always been pleased with the CDC’s recommendations on COVID-19 and schools.
Both the AFT and the National Education Association issued terse initial statements after the agency revised its social distancing recommendations from 6 feet of space between students down to 3 feet, with appropriate precautions. Weingarten later said she came to support the change.”

Again they denied the scientific consensus only to later come around.

The teacher’s unions across the country wielded a heavy hand in helping to get Biden elected, to the point where they directly emailed parents telling them to vote for Biden and other candidates or the pandemic will never end and your kids will always be in danger. They have absolutely influenced the decisions of both the Biden administration and the CDC. The people that speak for Biden eventually started to resist the push to keep schools closed in public statements. It’s all documented.

Here is a link to the BTU newsletter in October 2020 telling people what candidates to vote for because they are more likely get what they want in negotiations:

https://btu.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/BTU-2020-October-fo-the-websi...

And here is a link explaining how all this nonsense hurts students with special needs and higher learners the most:

https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ795878.pdf

“ Returning to the question posed in the title—have unions been a help or a hindrance to student achievement?—average students appear not to have been harmed by attending union schools. If anything, the performance of average students on standardized tests is slightly higher, but below- and above-average students fare worse. Still, the overall increase in productivity does not offset the higher costs of unionized districts. Furthermore, teachers unions reduce the discretion of ad- ministrators, impose rigid standards, and re- allocate school expenditures toward higher compensation and greater employment and away from resources for specialized and enhanced instruction.”