Service Employees International Union Local 99 staged a three-day walkout in Los Angeles last week after negotiations failed. SEIU, which represents about 30,000 cafeteria workers, bus drivers, special education assistants, etc. called for a strike if their demands were not met by the Los Angeles Unified School District. And the United Teachers of Los Angeles decided to ditch school, too, in what was deemed a “sympathy strike.” The unions’ action forced every public school in LA to shut down from March 21 to March 23.
It all played out in the usual way. The unions huffed and puffed, accused management of withholding a rightful pay increase, told lies and half-truths, kids’ education was disrupted, and media complicity was bountiful, while the LAUSD superintendent asserted that the district could not afford to accede to the unions’ demands.
The rhetoric was straight from the Unionese handbook. “These are the co-workers that are the lowest-paid workers in our schools and we cannot stand idly by as we consistently see them disrespected and mistreated by this district,” UTLA president Cecily Myart-Cruz insisted during a news conference.
After shutting down for three days, the schools reopened on Friday March 24 — and voila! A deal was reached the same day — and the union wound up getting almost all of what it wanted.
But while school district honchos and unionistas were jubilant, the kids of Los Angeles suffered more damage as pawns in the adult arena. Three days of school were eliminated with no plan in place to make up for the lost time.
“Lost time” is not new for LA; UTLA forced a mass shutdown of LA schools for more than a year during the Covid hysteria — and students were neglected during that time. The union contract stipulates that the professional workday for a full-time, regular employee “requires no fewer than eight hours of on-site and off-site work.” Yet during the shutdown, then-UTLA boss Alex Caputo-Pearl engineered a deal that required teachers to provide instruction and student support for just four hours per day — and also to “host three office hours for students” every week. So instead of a forty-hour work week, teachers in LA only had to be available for twenty-three hours. Additionally, teachers could create their own work schedules “and were not required to teach classes using live video conferencing platforms.”
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The less time those kids spend in the classroom the better off they will be.
As the classroom is only a propaganda outlet for the DNC, you’re certainly correct.
When Bkowjob Buttigege took a couple of months off, he gave the nation a respite from his malicious incompetence.
There are no more real schools anymore their now Indoctrination Centers for Big Brother to make sure the youth will always obey without question
Charolette Iserbyt who was appointed in the late 1970s to the unconstitutional Dept. of Ed by President Reagan exposed the awful plans to change the values, beliefs and feelings of every child in America. She was fired after she exposed their plans. She worked for years exposing the plans concerning the nationalization of our education of our schools. (You should remember that Hitler did the same thing to the kids in Germany.) As a former teacher, it was the teachers and parents in our local school districts who sat down together and wrote our own curriculum for our school district. This right was taken away and given to the national level. Parents didn’t listen to our warning and now we have several generations who have, now, been totally brainwashed.! Universities/colleges started firing their conservative faculty and why most of the students are taught liberal beliefs. Once you destroy your school system by imposing these radical beliefs on our children, it’s over for our country!
My Fa5her was very involved in Return to Basic Education in the late 70’s and the 80s. I left HS in 72 but had a younger sister. What is worse is this page from a 1932 book by William Z. Foster, we were warned and ignored it, what have they not accomplished? You know what so many are ignorant of
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You want to be Paid Rosebud?! Then quit Brainwashing/Indoctrinating the youth with your leftists Lies and that America was founded on Liberty and Freedom not Slavery which was carried out by the Democrats