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Updated: April 8, 2026 @ 5:30 pm
Editor,
There is only a 1 in 5,500 chance of an elementary age student getting COVID and only a 1 in 2,700 chance of a 12- to 17-year-old student getting it according the Centers for Disease Control’s 10/20/20 report. The odds of a teacher contracting COVID from the student population is near zero and studies show that teachers that did contract COVID didn’t get it from the students. Catholic schools show the safety of providing in-person leaning for 1.6 million children many of whom are poor.
Yet despite the science, teachers’ unions lobbied strongly against in-person learning while teachers collected full pay and benefits for their guaranteed lifetime jobs. This led to a 100% increase in student deaths, drug overdoses and mental illnesses.
Now teachers’ unions have gotten bills passed for $12 billion for State and Federal COVID aid. But only 20% of this is needed for improved air ventilation and safety measures. Especially galling is that teachers will get $4.6 billion of the aid to teach children over the summer what they should have been teaching them all year long. This is being paid for by millions of workers who lost their jobs, don’t have pension funds and don’t get summers off.
How do the teachers unions get away with this? Answer: They’re one of the biggest contributors to democrats in our corrupt one party government that’s completely owned by the unions.
Ed Kahl
Woodside
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(4) comments
Hello, Ed
Thanks for clearly outlining the teachers unions' effort to extort money from taxpayers. About this time last year, the largest teachers union in SoCal refused to return to the classroom until it was safe AND Medicare was guaranteed for all, police were defunded, and taxes on the wealthy were increased. Absolutely... no one should be required to go back to teaching in a classroom unless it is safe, and a year ago... the union's position re: safety made sense. It still does. However, as you pointed out... they can return safely. Now, the union has thrown another roadblock in the way of in-person instruction... that same union won't allow its members to return until they're all vaccinated. It's not just the union's agenda driven leadership... 90% of the union's members approved the demand requiring vaccinations, and at the same time... its members are being cautioned against posting photos on social media showing them in vacation locales while "negotiations" with the state continue.
Ray - if the majority of the teachers were really there for the children, they would have told their unions to pound sand. Ergo, the teachers as a group are guilty by association and have lost the respect that we once had for them. There were no picket lines, no scabs, just closed schools, while the precious children suffer. All school boards that allowed this idiocy to continue should be dissolved. Where were/are they? Do the boards represent the teachers or the children?
Hi, Dirk
You are correct. My kids are grown, but my heart breaks for the students who are missing so much as a result of union greed. Gavin should set a date and tell... not ask... public school teachers to report to the classroom by that date.
As far as school boards are concerned... I am reminded of Mark Twain. He said, "In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards."
Recall Newsom, Make sure to sign the petition. Vote in conservative(s), and take back Calif. Stop the one party control, tell the teachers "teach" or show them the door (with no pay or benefits).
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