This piece in the New Yorker paints a tragic, intimate portrait of the human rights crime of “remote learning” that has been inflicted on children throughout the country. Schools, strangled by unions who care only about what they can wring out for themselves while holding children’s futures hostage, are irreparably broken. There must be another option for parents that is readily available in the event that union thugs shut down schools. And that option must be private, not public. It must be a citadel that a teacher’s union can’t sink their claws into.
What I envision is a private option that also takes a voucher in the event of a school shutdown. The voucher must be made immediately available, and the transition between the union-strangled public school and the private option must be free of all red tape, so parents can switch within a single day. You can imagine the screeching the union parasites would engage in over such a scenario. Let them screech. This would be nothing more than the reaction to competition, the reaction of an animal that realizes their power has been diminished. It would be an enormous improvement over the current situation.
Teacher’s unions are perfectly fine with sacrificing children’s wellbeing to their own bottom line. The COVID lockdown has proven this beyond a shadow of a doubt. Such an organization must not be allowed to hold so much power, and the only way to diminish it is to simply offer an alternative.
