Time For Teachers To Stand Up For Students

I've not been impressed with teachers.

From the onset, they've been the biggest proponents of keep schools closed while advocating remote learning. This was lest out of concern for the well-being of children (if it were they'd consider the negative impact on their development to which they play a role) and more out of personal concern. Which is understandable.

But of all the group of people who should assert some critical thinking it would be teachers.

For years we've been hearing about the hard work they do and that their work never stops. Teacher's unions have made sure the public is hammered with this as they demand to be viewed as professionals while striking for better wages.

Education is just politics by other means now and we see this clearly in North America during this pandemic. 

The claim officials and education are 'following science' is laughable. They're following the bad science that confirms their fears.

And children are paying the ultimate price. They're the ones being disproportionately harmed by all this. 

Not once have I heard people ask about the children. Not one Helen Lovejoy.

It's about me, myself and I.

There was a chance for teachers to really stand out and be leaders. Their usual complaints had fallen on deaf ears with the public in recent years. In the United States, public education is so poor I think it's another form of child abuse. We fare barely better up here.

On 9/11 the men and women serving police and fire departments selflessly ran into danger to certain death. 

Here was a chance for teachers to speak out for children. Instead they protested claiming the government was using them as 'guineas'.

Had they followed the literature from Europe they'd see there's low transmission from children to teachers. That schools are safe to operate without the useless, mind-numbingly terrorizing measures. They had a real chance to show the public their mettle when it counted most and failed.

Courage. Now please.