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American Federation of Teachers union boss Randi Weingarten claimed at the union's annual convention that teachers were so terrified of going back to school that they were \"quitting in droves\" and \"making their wills\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe AFT threatened that its members would go on strike if they were expected to go back to actually doing their jobs and teaching in a classroom.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn New York City, the United Federation of Teachers, which is affiliated with the AFT, marched with cardboard coffins and fake body bags. Some union teachers wore skeleton t-shirts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA Halloween skeleton attached to a garbage bag held a cardboard sickle and a message written next to dripping blood, \"Welcome Back to School\". \"I can't teach from a cemetery,\" one sign claimed. Another declared, \"We Won't Die for the Department of Education.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDespite their claim that they feared for their lives, the march had \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/video-images.vice.com\/articles\/5f298fab32bd48009dea007d\/lede\/1596561378328-ap20217079218018-1.jpeg?crop=1xw:0.8430913348946136xh;center,center\u0026amp;resize=500:*\"\u003Elittle\u003C\/a\u003E social distancing.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA few weeks after the death march, the AFT’s teachers took a break from making out their wills to get on buses and travel to Washington D.C. to take part in Sharpton’s 50,000 person rally.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-wkiXXiaZQwY\/X1SAJBimwFI\/AAAAAAAASZQ\/zGvPVGxB9awgxbRkRrHLJIcoSgx5_83TACNcBGAsYHQ\/s1284\/aft%2Brandi%2Bweingarten%2Bscreenshot%2Bframe.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"921\" data-original-width=\"1284\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-wkiXXiaZQwY\/X1SAJBimwFI\/AAAAAAAASZQ\/zGvPVGxB9awgxbRkRrHLJIcoSgx5_83TACNcBGAsYHQ\/w625-h450\/aft%2Brandi%2Bweingarten%2Bscreenshot%2Bframe.png\" width=\"625\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe AFT was \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ei-ie.org\/en\/detail\/16918\/united-states-aft-mobilises-for-28-august-march-on-washington\"\u003Edescribed \u003C\/a\u003Eas “mobilizing” for the Get Your Knee off Our Necks Commitment March in Washington D.C. which included lots of hate, but few coronavirus precautions.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPhotos showed staffers from the country’s second-largest teachers' union holding signs in close proximity to each other. Randi Weingarten tweeted a photo of herself embracing two other union bosses, elbow bumping Martin Luther King III, posing with the head of the Human Rights Campaign, and then with Al Sharpton, who has one arm\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AFTunion\/status\/1299350548852998145\/photo\/1\"\u003E loosely draped\u003C\/a\u003E across her body.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnless the AFT head shares a household with Sharpton, that’s not social distancing. But photos \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/dcmetrotheaterarts.com\/2020\/08\/29\/picturing-racial-justice-at-the-2020-commitment-march-on-washington\/\"\u003Erepeatedly show\u003C\/a\u003E Sharpton in tight groups of people, sometimes without a mask.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd then Weingarten mounted the podium, and with her mask down, and a huge crowd to her side, began shrieking, “How much pain must black people endure?” However much pain black people have endured, the white union boss’ shrieks could only have added pain and saliva.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt one point, she screamed, “180,000 people dead of COVID” so loudly while flailing her arms that a march volunteer standing next to her stumbled backward.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf Weingarten were infected, she might have killed more black people than the police ever did.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMeanwhile the UFT was \"advising members to not enter school buildings for anything other than retrieving classroom materials and supplies\" because it's too just dangerous.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWeingarten had claimed that teachers were so scared of going back to work that they were, “writing their wills.” But there was nothing to be afraid of in a mob of Sharpton’s racists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile Sharpton’s National Action Network had claimed that the D.C. rally would be socially distanced, photos repeatedly show that was not true with participants clumped closely together.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs I demonstrated in \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2020\/08\/coronavirus-rules-dont-apply-sharptons-100000-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Emy original expose \u003C\/a\u003Eof the rally plans, it would take an area the size of 300 football fields to allow for a socially distanced rally of 100,000 people in front of the Lincoln Memorial. The NAN reduced its projected number to 50,000 when filing for a permit with the National Park Service. But that’s still way too many football fields to fit into that space.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Get Your Knee off Our Necks Commitment March’s pandemic precautions consisted of theater like temperature checks and sanitation areas. A mobile testing tent appeared to be unused while in the 90 degree temperatures many attendees dropped their masks and gulped air and water in equal measures. The barriers made things worse with a huge crowd being confined to the area around the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool packed cheek to cheek.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESome waded into the water to cool off and get a better view of the stage set up on the steps.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile yellow banners attached to the barricades ordered people to stay 6 feet apart, few were listening or could even do it. In the intense heat, some marchers passed out and crowds gathered around them. Things weren’t much better at the podium with a large number of family members of deceased criminals crowding around and people walking past them to take selfies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDespite that, and Sharpton’s racist history, the rally included a taped message from Senator Kamala Harris, the Democrat VP nominee, and support\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYGovCuomo\/status\/1299131659690946562\"\u003E from\u003C\/a\u003E Governor Andrew Cuomo.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd there was plenty of participation from teachers who claim they’ll die if they go back to work.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe coffin and body bag parades are being brandished by unions to terrorize parents, even while the unions cheer on tens of thousands of black nationalists squeezing together in D.C.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association had made their own coffins of children to terrorize parents into keeping schools closed. The ghoulishly vile messages on them included,  “Here lies a third grade student from Green Bay who caught COVID at school”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe union's Twitter claimed that, \"It isn't a matter of if students and staff at in-person schools will get sick, it's a matter of when\", even while it kept on promoting Black Lives Matter rallies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt even retweeted a photo of the massive crowd for Sharpton's 50,000 \"Get Your Knee off Our Necks Commitment March\" rally where everyone was closely crowded together.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"This is how many people showed up to the #MarchOnWashington today,\" the tweet read.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETeachers’ union members claim that every single one of them will die if they have to set foot in a classroom, and will take all the children and their grandparents with them just like Jonestown. Meanwhile, they aren’t making out their wills when they head off to a Black Lives Matter rally.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe union’s own protests have repeatedly involved teachers crowding into small spaces to protest against school leadership and elected officials, even while claiming they’re about to die.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf the AFT’s boss and its staffers can head out to D.C., pal around with Sharpton, and then speak to a crowd of tens of thousands, its members can go back and teach school in-person.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou can’t travel around the country, crowd into protests, and then claim teaching will kill you.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe American Federation of Teachers, which has been holding school districts around the country hostage, doesn’t care about safety. It isn’t holding out because it cares about students, but because it wants power and it has the ability to shut down the entire education system.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis corrupt system, in which the Democrat activists of the AFT claim that they care so much about the kids that they refuse to teach them every time they want more money, has hit its peak.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EParents around the country are paying a fortune in taxes to subsidize the salaries of AFT hacks. They’re no longer even paying for a miserably substandard social justice education. These days they’re often paying for an online session even as the unions and the districts want higher taxes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESharpton’s March on Washington once again exposed the lie that the Democrats shut down the country because they care about social distancing. And it exposed the lie that the American Federation of Teachers has been threatening school districts because it cares about safety.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf Randi Weingarten can hug Al Sharpton in person, AFT’s hacks can go back to school.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003EDaniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/8391477097607764646\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/09\/teachers-union-wont-go-back-to-school.html#comment-form","title":"10 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/8391477097607764646"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/8391477097607764646"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/09\/teachers-union-wont-go-back-to-school.html","title":"Teachers’ Union Won’t Go Back to School -- But Will Go to Sharpton’s 50,000 March"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"10"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-7084279863504176544"},"published":{"$t":"2020-08-03T04:59:00.000-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-08-03T04:59:00.532-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Left"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"unions"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Billions Are Being Spent on Teachers Who Won't Teach: President Trump Can Change That"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"The Los Angeles Unified School District spends $18,788 per student. Its goal is to up that spending to $20,000. The mammoth LA school district is 7th in urban spending and has around half a million students. And the costs only went up after a United Teachers strike extracted a 6 percent raise. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELast year, LAUSD approved a $7.8 billion budget. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGovernor Newsom demanded federal aid during the coronavirus and proposed moving over $4 billion in federal pandemic relief to the non-functioning schools. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Cuts to funding at schools will forever impact the lives of children,\" Superintendent Austin Beutner warned. \"The harm children are facing is just as real a threat to them as is the coronavirus.\" \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EApparently cutting the budgets of closed schools is just as lethal as a pandemic. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-L9tspHNngFg\/XyTMdVF24xI\/AAAAAAAASUQ\/eL5TljTP55AswpymsQh8XmxJuFS8stOwwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s1600\/lausd%2Bstrike.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"720\" data-original-width=\"1280\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-L9tspHNngFg\/XyTMdVF24xI\/AAAAAAAASUQ\/eL5TljTP55AswpymsQh8XmxJuFS8stOwwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s640\/lausd%2Bstrike.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"The notion that schools can continue to operate safely in the fall with a decreased state budget is not realistic,\" deputy superintendent Megan Reilly complained after a proposed 7% budget cut. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe schools are aren’t opening in the fall. Instead, LAUSD is staying closed. But it has piled up $200 million in \"emergency coronavirus costs\" from handing out free computers and internet. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat are those billion-dollar budgets buying now? \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Zoom classes managed to have only two-thirds of students logging in on any given school day. 40,000 high school students were not participating after school closures. That’s not surprising because the teachers’ union had reached an agreement that would avoid any pay cuts, would allow teachers to set their own schedules, free them from video lectures, and require them to work only 4 hours a day. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMeanwhile millions are being spent on protective equipment, not because LAUSD schools are teaching students, but because they’re open only to illegally use federal funds to serve food to the homeless. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd the situation at LAUSD is typical of the broken Democrat school model across the country. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s bad enough when taxpayers and parents were stuck with billion-dollar bills when there were at least functioning schools. Now struggling families are paying a fortune to subsidize Democrat activists who make their own schedules and might condescend to spend a few hours handing out class projects. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDon’t ask them to turn on their video or actually monitor the students they’re “teaching”. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“If schools aren’t going to reopen, we’re not suggesting pulling funding from education, but instead allowing families ... take that money and figure out where their kids can get educated if their schools are going to refuse to open,” Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos suggested. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat suggestion has been met with howls of outrage from the teachers’ unions. How dare the country’s top education official suggest that education funding should be used to teach children. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnder the current regime of pandemic closures, the entire system of school districts makes no sense. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf students are going to be taught online, then their geographic location only matters when they hit a time zone change. The massive burden of property taxes on local homeowners that has been used to fund the public education system through sweetheart deals with union activists has no reason to exist. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThose contracts were for teachers who showed up in classrooms to teach students. Democrat activists have negotiated with Democrat politicians to pay them a fortune to only occasionally teach online. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s not a good deal for anyone except the unions and the Democrat officials they’ve bought off. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESecretary of Education DeVos is correct. Education funding is meant to fund education, not homeless soup kitchens, which LAUSD considers more essential than functioning classrooms. That money doesn’t belong to unions or political bosses. It was extracted from taxpayers through a broken promise. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EParents have the right to pull that money from school districts and use it to educate their children. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat can mean finding private schools that are willing to open up for in-person learning, it can mean competitive distance learning at private and public schools around the country, or it can mean homeschooling through pods. Or any learning that meets curriculum requirements. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe public education system was broken badly before. Now it effectively doesn’t exist. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe system, at every level from elementary through college, has shed what few standards it had, while maintaining ridiculously inflated expenses of tens of thousands per student for teaching zoom classes. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECompetitive alternatives could easily offer individual students more instruction time, more access to teachers, and more personalized instruction for a fraction of the money that is being spent today. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESchool districts react hysterically to both budget cuts and proposals to reopen. But they can’t have it both ways. They protest that the infrastructure must be maintained, even as they insist that they have no idea when they’re going to be able to use it again. They argue that, unlike every other profession, it’s vital to keep teachers employed, even when they’re really not doing anything useful. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile so many people who want to work are losing their jobs, why should some government employees who won’t do their jobs be immune from economic realities because of their political power? \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe answer is political corruption. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMunicipal unions have gotten away with murder because they’ve had their fingers on a vital service. Mess with them and they can turn out the lights, stay home when the fires break out, or force you to keep your kids entertained at home. Pandemic closures have entirely neutered that last threat. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe pandemic emergency has created an education emergency. And the public school system is unable and unwilling to meet that crisis because of its cronyism, corruption, and general incompetence. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPresident Trump has the opportunity to help parents meet that education emergency by taking executive actions that will empower private schools, homeschoolers, and the more functional elements of the public school system to step forward and competitively meet the needs of students and parents. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe public health emergency has created an education emergency that President Trump can solve. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf a public health emergency can be used to confine millions of people in their homes, to close countless businesses, to suspend the Bill of Rights, and even to ban husbands and wives from sharing a bed, it can certainly be used to redirect education funding from systems that aren’t teaching to those that are. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s either that or go on giving billions to broken districts like LAUSD where the teachers might show up for 4 hours of work and some of their students might occasionally tune in to do the work. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the old public school system, teachers pretended to teach and students pretended to learn. Now no one is pretending anymore. The teachers aren’t teaching and the students aren’t learning. The big expensive buildings are standing empty, the school supplies are going unused, and the endless layers of administration serve no function except to draw six figure salaries. It’s time to end the charade. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe billion-dollar boondoggles were not created to maintain themselves which is all they’re doing now.   \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerica’s students deserve better. So do the taxpayers who have funded this mess. The public education system has shut itself down. It’s time to build a new flexible system that can handle the stresses of the pandemic and deliver results without holding students and parents hostage to unions. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPresident Trump can take the first step by breaking parents and students free of broken districts and shuttered schools by putting federal education funds at the disposal of parents during this emergency. Voucher programs have already been successfully implemented in many states, especially in districts with underperforming schools, and a pandemic voucher program would offer flexibility and results. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EParents would be able to enroll their children in the distance or in-person learning options that work for their families. A competitive educational environment would adapt to the challenges much more readily and provide better value for students. And the failing public school system would have an incentive to improve. The alternative is wasting billions on schools and teachers who refuse to teach their students.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles. 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