Chicago teachers refuse school return — even after $100M spent to keep schools safe

[Counselor706]

K-8 students in Chicago’s Public Schools have now lost what was supposed to be the first week back for in-person learning, as the district and its teachers union remain locked in a dispute over a safe reopening plan during the coronavirus pandemic.

Chicago Public Schools (CPS) -- for the sixth time in a little over a week -- has instructed parents to keep their children home for remote learning Thursday. Friday, on the district’s calendar, is a "school improvement day" for teachers and staff that students had already been given off.

"Let me remind you of the over $100 million dollars in mitigations that CPS has invested in our schools to make them safe," Mayor Lori Lightfoot said during a news conference Thursday morning. "They have included: ventilation, testing, health screenings, face coverings, enhanced cleaning and other in-school safety measures."

"After 80 plus meetings and going above and beyond to address the CTU leadership’s various issues and concerns, we are out of runway," she added, noting that the "ball is in the CTU's court."

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[LLCox]

It's the teachers that spread the covid. A study has been done and most of the infections are spread by people between the ages of 25 to 49.

 

[Counselor706]

Teachers in Oregon demanded to be vaccinated before retuning to the classroom, so their governor obliged by putting them at the front of the line — even ahead of the state's vulnerable senior population. Now, vaccinated educators, with the backing of their unions, are refusing to go back to work.

Portland Association of Teachers President Elizabeth Thiel admitted to the Willamette Week that, yes, the union "did ask for teachers to be vaccinated before a return to in-person learning. Because that makes sense."

Now, she said, because they did not ask to be put at the front of the line, teachers are in a "terrible position where we've been given a thing that is so needed in our community, that people are literally dying for not having access to, and then told, because we were given this, we need to go into live instruction, even though there are so many unanswered questions and concerns about whether that is going to cause an increase in community spread."

She did not elaborate on how being moved to the front of the line somehow negated teachers' insistence that returning to the classroom was contingent upon receiving vaccinations.

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[missyunderstanding]

The whole thing is a hoax and the teachers are crap

The teachers are sick and it is not with the Wuhan virus. They are really sick people. I have no respect for them and would never send my son to a public school to be brainwashed by those socialist zombies.

 

[Philthy_Phil]

The teachers are sick and it is not with the Wuhan virus. They are really sick people. I have no respect for them and would never send my son to a public school to be brainwashed by those socialist zombies.

Lmao. Someone forgot their meds!