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The Chicago Teachers Union is planning to strike following failed negotiations over in-person learning.
On Monday, elementary and middle-school teachers across the Chicago Public School district refused to return to the classroom for in-person work after the Chicago Teachers Union voted to defy the district s plan to reopen schools. The district subsequently pushed back the start date to Wednesday in hopes of reaching an agreement with the union, though negotiations ultimately failed. The Chicago Teachers Union said that if the district retaliates, teachers should strike.
Recent Stories in Campus So it s come to this, the union wrote in a members-only email. Short of some late-breaking change, all members will begin working remotely tomorrow, Wednesday, January 27. And if CPS retaliates against members for exercising their right to a safe workplace, all members will stop working on Thursday and se
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A Pasco School Board meeting pre-pandemic. The president of the Pasco Association of Educators (PAE) claims reopening schools for in-person learning is an example of white supremacy, and compares listening to concerned parents to following rioters breaking into the U.S. Capitol. He even says concern over student suicide is an example of white privilege.
Scott Wilson, PAE president, made a series of unhinged, controversial remarks during a Pasco School Board meeting this week.
even with near-consensus from the medical community that it is safe to reopen schools with mitigation policies in place. The petition the union promotes baselessly calls in-person learning unsafe and unsustainable.
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.