and the for the most part rank and file vote for it today. many teachers unhappy and there is a probability they will reject it. because they did not get what they wanted and the ultimate thing thing that they wanted was they wanted to return to class a week from today instead, the teachers are in today, ainsley, and the students come back tomorrow, if it passes by the rank and file. ainsley: that s crazy. that would be two weeks of the kids not having any classroom at all because lori lightfoot said we are not doing any zoom teaching. i want the kids back in the classroom. she said parents shouldn t have to choose whether or not they are going to go out and make a living or stay at home with their children. some of these parents are hourly employees so they need to go back to work but they have to stay at home with their kids. their kids are not learning right now. that s been the argument. it s interesting that just a day earlier the teachers union president his name is jesse
muscles and revert back to zoom teaching. that s what they wanted to do despite $130 billion in covid relief funds that were designated to keep schools open. those are your taxpayer dollars your members of congress voted to approve, specifically in this case for testing, keeping schools open, everything that they need to make sure children are educated, which we slipped behind on dramatically, this week more than 4,500 schools across the country were closed for one day. gillian turner with the breakdown of the numbers for us. hi, gillian. the money was meant to school the schools open during the pandemic. now a lot of them are shut down. let s dig in. the chicago school district took in $1.8 billion. milwaukee, $504 million. atlanta took in just over $200 million. and detroit almost 800 million. all of these schools closed now
yes. there were in my school, we did have many cases, positive cases. a lot of the information is confidential so i m not aware of which teachers, which students that were you know made aware but, you know, there were, but there weren t that many from what i heard. rachel: okay. so let me ask you this. you have nine years of teaching experience. they will replace teachers like you i guess, some 5500 of them were substitutes. i was in school. i remember what substitute teachers were like. i was a substitute teacher for a while. how does that compare so was i. rachel: how does that compare to actual teachers that formed a bond, have so many years of experience in the classroom and especially coming off of a year of zoom teaching and so forth? yes. you know, this, something that they have been talking about,
in a long line of days
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Twitter user Julia (Twitter tag
@bugtypepokemon) has recently shared a photo of a hand-written poem that considers the realities of the pandemic and the subsequent video-meeting culture of the world.
In particular, it’s from the point of view of a school kid who is too exhausted to stare at a “dumb” computer screen during classes as it feels like that’s all he’s doing these days. It puts into words what many of us, regardless of whether we’re in school, think and feel like, because the pandemic has altered our lives to a degree where social interaction has become borderline inhuman.