'...Two years into the pandemic, many teachers’ unions simply refuse to be flexible. They won’t adapt to changing circumstances the way the rest of us have been expected to over the past two years,' RubenNavarrette writes
Despite all this, parents continue to be told they must be flexible, and so we have been.
More than 340,000 students were forced to stay home for several days. Parents had to scramble, at the last minute, to formulate a plan to watch over their children while also going to work at the jobs that sustain their families. Been there, done that. I was a substitute public school teacher for five years in my twenties to support my writing habit. My wife served as a Montessori teacher and dyslexia specialist for twice as long, and now she’s studying to work with students as a speech therapist.
The response got me thinking about how many Americans have been conditioned to view unions. Do we consider any criticism of police unions as an attack on individual police officers? And do we require experience in law enforcement before one can comment on police matters? Certainly not. Technically, teachers work for the taxpayers, which means they work for parents. But you would never know it, thanks to the outsized influence of teachers’ unions. Parents have zero control over their “employees.”
This is no longer an internal matter for the school system to sort out. It has grown larger than that and spilled into the political arena. In the U.S., more and more parents believe that they lack control over their kids’ schooling. And for the millions who endured 18 months or more of remote learning, they believe it even more than they used to.
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