The loonies are coming out of the woodwork. Marginally leftist organizations are displaying their true colors.
From San Diego, CA station KUSI:
Los Angeles Teachers Union says public schools should not reopen unless their demands are met
The SDUSD on Monday issued a joint statement with the Los Angeles Unified School District, which also announced it will start the school year with online-only courses. In the statement, the districts acknowledged that schools have successfully reopened in some parts of the world, but said the conditions are different locally.
SDUSD = San Diego Unified School District. But, it gets better:
The Los Angeles Teacher’s Union is one of the largest in the state, and the “United Teachers Los Angeles” say public schools should not reopen unless their demands are met.
Their demands include implementing a moratorium on private schools, defunding the police, increasing taxes on the wealthy, implementing Medicare for all, and passing the HEROES Act, which allocated and additional $116 billion in federal education funding to the states.
The unions demands also took aim at charter schools.
Now the Marxism comes out. We Have Demands and They Must Be Met. Excuse me but you work for the taxpayers in your districts and your job is to educate the taxpayers children. Unfortunately, the Teachers Union has morphed into a political entity directly responsible for this graph from Cato Institute (page two):
Seriously overdue for some detention time - send the Union leaders to the Principal's Office. They need to sit down, shut up and do their damn jobs.
Unions very much had their day - they were needed 100 years ago. Unfortunately, most of them have failed to keep up with the times and now serve no useful function for either the worker or the employer.
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