A Chicago Teachers Union leader is being criticized for pushing to continuine the policy of remote schooling and threatening to strike while she is vacationing in the Caribbean.
Sarah Chambers, who is on the CTU’s executive board and serves as its vice president, has been claiming that it is not safe for Chicago public schools to reopen for the new year due to the COVID pandemic, however she has been making those statements while vacationing in Puerto Rico, which is a country that supposedly has 110,000 cases of COVID.
Chambers has been posting pictures of her vacation to her Instagram account, commenting about how empty the tourist areas are:
On the same day that she made the above post, she wrote: “Hearing of an educator revolution happening. Tons of members are emailing their admin: I’ll be asserting my right to continue to work in a safe remote environment on January 4th, 2021. I have signed the pledge, along with over 8,000+ union educators to continue to work remotely.”— Referring to 8,000 Chicago teachers in her union who are threatening to strike if the schools reopen in January.
Many people are very inconvenienced by their kids being required to stay at home, and there is essentially no danger to kids from COVID whatsoever.
What is also problematic is the fact that teachers such as Chambers are often leftist extremists who teach harmful disinformation even when they are working. I can’t imagine how frustrating it must be for well-informed students to have to sit through what they know is corrupt leftist propaganda. I’m curious about how teachers such as Chambers would reply if they were told the truth about issues with the “Black Lives Matter” organization and global warming, for example.
Actually I think “homeschooling” would be a most ideal option, however that is not really practical for most people. Perhaps like-minded parents could pool their resources to organize grass-roots independent “homeschool clusters” in order to save their kids from being exposed to harmful leftist Establishment agendas in areas where it is particularly problematic.