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Salt Lake City School District teachers hold signs as they attend a press conference in support of student and educator safety during the COVID-19 pandemic on the steps of the Capitol in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021. The Salt Lake Education Association held the event to raise awareness of the actions of lawmakers who worked to leverage the Salt Lake City School District with legislation designed to usurp local elected school board authority and punish the school district for choosing remote instruction until teachers were vaccinated or safety metrics were met.
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SALT LAKE CITY Jennifer Woznick, a fifth grade teacher at Meadowlark Elementary School, described to a cheering crowd of other teachers, students and parents what she called examples of recent bullying from Utah lawmakers. Is that the language used by a concerned elected official for the students of a city he is not even elected to represent? Or a bully? Woznick asked the crowd that had braved the frigid February cold to gather on the steps of Utah s Capitol on Wednesday. A bully! the crowd, organized by the Salt Lake Education Association, shouted back. The answer is obvious, she said.
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