Good day all. One of the major problems in America today is the education of our children. We used to have the best education system in the world. Now? It’s a pathetic joke. The problems began when the teachers were allowed to unionize and became “Professional educators” instead of teachers.
When the Great Panicedemic of 2020 arrives, the governments at all levels did a number of very stupid things. Granted, in the early days there wasn’t a lot of information. This led to the “Lockdown” that was only supposed to last for a couple of weeks that has now stretched to well over a year. The economy, which had been climbing into orbit, was brought to a screeching halt and the Constitution was basically shredded.
Now the American People are saying enough is enough and have started tearing off the masks and telling their “so called” elected officials that it’s now time to move back to the way things were, one of which is getting the schools back open. This is where the Teachers Union, which has never put educating children on their list of things to do, decided that they liked having their members getting paid for doing pretty much nothing. Here are the details from the New York Post:
The American Federation of Teachers lobbied the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on, and even suggested language for, the federal agency’s school-reopening guidance released in February. The powerful teachers union’s full-court press preceded the federal agency putting the brakes on a full re-opening of in-person classrooms, emails between top CDC, AFT and White House officials show.
The documents show a flurry of activity between CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky, her top advisors and union officials — with Biden brass being looped in at the White House — in the days before the highly-anticipated Feb. 12 announcement on school-reopening guidelines.
“Thank you again for Friday’s rich discussion about forthcoming CDC guidance and for your openness to the suggestions made by our president, Randi Weingarten, and the AFT,” wrote AFT senior director for health issues Kelly Trautner in a Feb 1 email — which described the union as the CDC’s “thought partner.”
“We were able to review a copy of the draft guidance document over the weekend and were able to provide some initial feedback to several staff this morning about possible ways to strengthen the document,” Trautner continued. “… We believe our experiences on the ground can inform and enrich thinking around what is practicable and prudent in future guidance documents.”
I ask, Why is the Union involved in this? Determining if the schools should be reopened, which they should be, is something handled by the school district and the parents. Of course, if you want to give the Union as much time as possible to make sure the schools don’t reopen, and provide them with the opportunity to edit the guidance in their favor, it makes perfect sense.
The lobbying paid off. In at least two instances, language “suggestions” offered by the union were adopted nearly verbatim into the final text of the CDC document.
With the CDC preparing to write that schools could provide in-person instruction regardless of community spread of the virus, Trautner argued for the inclusion of a line reading “In the event of high community-transmission results from a new variant of SARS-CoV-2, a new update of these guidelines may be necessary.” That language appeared on page 22 of the final CDC guidance.
The AFT also demanded special remote work concessions for teachers “who have documented high-risk conditions or who are at increased risk for … COVID-19,” and that similar arrangements should extend to “staff who have a household member” with similar risks. A lengthy provision for that made it into the text of the final guidance.
The Teacher’s unions have long been hostile to actually doing the job of teaching children. One of the things the lockdown has done is show parents just how bad a lot of the teachers they’ve been relying on actually are. There have been several incidents where a teacher saw something in a child’s room or house, usually a poster or a pellet gun, something that today’s “Professional educators” have deemed double ungoodverybad and have called the police. I understand that there are a number of lawsuits regarding this intrusion into a family’s home by these unionized zampolits. Finally, the “Guidance” came out and it was basically giving the Teachers unions everything they wanted.
The final CDC guidance won high praise from the AFT. “Today, the CDC met fear of the pandemic with facts and evidence,” the union said in a Feb 12 press release.
Many others, however, were puzzled and angered by what they saw as the CDC willfully ignoring the science and slow-walking a return to in-person learning even as mounting evidence showed schools were not a primary source of coronavirus infections as long as they followed mitigation strategies.
In point of fact, children have been the least affected group under this whole panicdemic nonsense. They either don’t get the Kung Flu, or the symptoms are so mild in most cases, that they just throw it off and want to go out and play. Many parents know this and want to know where the Hell the CDC came up with this nonsense. Questions started being asked by the Mostly Stupid Media
In a widely viewed CNN interview on Feb 14, anchor Jake Tapper grilled Walensky and demanded to know why the guidelines would allow schools in areas with high coronavirus community spread — know as “red zones” — to opt out of in-person reopening, noting that 99% of US kids fell within those areas, according to a CNN analysis.
“Can you point to any scientific reason for students in the United States not to return to in person classes tomorrow?” Tapper demanded several times.
The Union Head, demonstrating her utter contempt for actually having her membership do their jobs came back with this load of manure.
“If you’re in middle school or high school we would advocate for virtual learning for that group … We really don’t want to bring community disease into the classroom,” Walensky replied, repeatedly refusing to offer a scientific explanation for the reopening avoidance. “We also know that mask breaching is among the reasons that we have transmission within schools when it happens. Somewhere around 60% of students are reliably masking. That has to be universal. So we have work to do.”
Oh I like that last bit, “We have work to do.” Obviously, the last thing this overpaid communist wants is to have her membership actually DO THEIR JOBS! Meanwhile, as people found out about the CDC and the Teacher’s unions basically shagging each other, people started getting “Concerned.”
Dr. Monica Gandhi, a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco who has written extensively on coronavirus, called the CDC-AFT emails “very, very troubling,”
“What seems strange to me here is there would be this very intimate back and forth including phone calls where this political group gets to help formulate scientific guidance for our major public health organization in the United State,” Gandhi told The Post. “This is not how science-based guidelines should work or be put together.”
The CDC hasn’t been a science based organization for decades. They are all politically driven. They have also been caught lying through their teeth about everything during this Panicdemic business. It was never about “The Science,” it was about power and money. (Bigger budgets)
The CDC also insisted such conversations are routine.
“As part of long-standing best practices, CDC has traditionally engaged with organizations and groups that are impacted by guidance and recommendations issued by the agency. We do so to ensure our recommendations are feasible to implement and they adequately address the safety and wellbeing of individuals the guidance is aimed to protect. These informative and helpful interactions often result in beneficial feedback that we consider in our final revisions to ensure clarity and usability,” Jason McDonald, a spokesman for Dr. Walensky, told The Post.
And did they basically write the report for you, putting in their entire wish list? No, I don’t think so. The CDC Guidance is a joke, and like much that has been coming out of late from them, should be taken with several shiploads of salt. Frankly, the management of the CDC needs to be cleaned out, with bureaucratic dinosaurs like Fascist Fauci kicked out the door. As for the Teachers Unions? As I’ve said before, it’s time to look into breaking their stranglehold on city and state governments.
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