OPINION: What teachers unions do is legalized thuggery. Here's what parents can do
Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, joined 'Fox & Friends' to discuss Weingarten's testimony on the impact of school closures and Dr. Fauci's take on the COVID-19 vaccine mandates.If thugs were hurting your kid, you'd do almost anything to stop them. The harm inflicted byClosing schools in the spring of 2020, when no one understood COVID, was understandable. But once science showed negligible risk to students in returning to the classroom, prolonging closures became child abuse.
School closures led to severe learning loss, setting back many kids for years, possibly the rest of their lives."This is potentially going to be a real problem for this generation," warns University of Oxford researcher Bastian Betthauser. Consulting firm McKinsey & Company calls the impact on students' basic skills"grim." A staggering 37 percent of high school students reported suffering mental health struggles during the lockdowns, according to a CDC survey.
Listen up, parents. Protecting your kids from the unions requires waging political warfare, state by state.Action is urgently needed. Since 2008, learning progress in public schools has stagnated, and U.S. kids are falling behind their peers in other countries. The COVID lockdowns dealt a devastating blow, but schools were in crisis long before that.
Laws in 38 states guarantee collective bargaining, not just over pay but often over every aspect of the school day, even curriculum. Unions use these powers to block school reform, opposing standardized testing, merit pay and teacher accountability. And to stuff the curriculum with political indoctrination -- what the American Federation of Teachers calls"social justice."
The unions also buy political influence outright. The National Education Association and the AFT -- the nation's two biggest teachers unions -- are among the largest donors to politicians, and at least 94 percent of that money goes to Democrats, according to Open Secrets. No wonder Biden's White House ordered the CDC to grovel to Randi Weingarten and the teachers unions.
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