PAE Disputes Letter Urging Teachers to Opt out of Union
Over the last week, a letter/email has been circulating among Pasco teachers, and on several social media educational sites in the Tri-Cities. It s urging Pasco teachers to exercise their legal rights in Washington to opt out of the Pasco Teachers Union, or PAE (Pasco Association of Educators).
The letter is in response to controversial comments made by PAE President Scott Wilson during the comments section of the PSD School Board meeting a week ago Tuesday, January 12th. Wilson said, among other things, that parents who are pushing for in-person/hybrid return are exercising
Letter Circulating, Urging Pasco Teachers to Opt Out of Union
In the wake of controversial comments made during last Tuesday s Pasco School District School Board meeting by PAE (Pasco Association of Educators) President Scott Wilson, a letter is circulating urging teachers to opt out of the union.
The story about Wilson s comments went viral, national, which included being picked up and reported on by AM 770 KTTH in Seattle and Breitbart.com.
Wilson equated parents who want children to return to class in person, or hybrid, as being guilty of
white privilege. In another letter
clarifying his comments, Wilson didn t retract but instead viewed it as a teaching moment, implying parents-students and others in District are ignorant or need to be educated in the inherent or systemic racism of our society.
Pasco Teachers Union President said he found concerns from parents about their children being suicidal without their school and sports to be ignorant, and another expression of white privelege.
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