{"id":1191070,"date":"2022-01-05T14:49:57","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T19:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1191070"},"modified":"2022-01-05T14:50:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T19:50:08","slug":"shots-fired-1619-project-author-slams-teachers-unions-for-harming-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shots-fired-1619-project-author-slams-teachers-unions-for-harming-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"SHOTS FIRED: \u20181619 Project\u2019 Author Slams Teachers\u2019 Unions for Harming Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fshots-fired-1619-project-author-slams-teachers-unions-for-harming-kids%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1191070&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/\">Politics<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Racism expert Nikole Hannah-Jones denounces union opposition to in-person instruction<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/NHJ-teacher.png\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"denied:data:image\/gif;base64, R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/NHJ-teacher.png 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/NHJ-teacher-300x183.png 300w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/>\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/andrew-stiles\/\" title=\"Posts by Andrew Stiles\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Andrew Stiles<\/a> \u2022 January 5, 2022 2:40 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>America&#8217;s foremost expert on racism is lashing out at one of the Democratic Party&#8217;s closest allies. Nikole Hannah-Jones, the <em>New York Times<\/em> journalist and author of the controversial &#8220;1619 Project,&#8221; slammed teachers&#8217; unions on Wednesday for the &#8220;harms&#8221; they have chosen to inflict on America&#8217;s children.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have to be able to talk [about the] harms of remote learning in a society where vaccines are available for all teachers without being accused of being anti-union or anti-teacher,&#8221; Hannah-Jones <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nhannahjones\/status\/1478755070158245894\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> on Twitter. &#8220;We can disagree on what is the best thing to do when there are no good options without that accusation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hannah-Jones delivered her righteous tirade on a day when some 300,000 children in Chicago were shut out of their classrooms because the members of the Chicago Teachers Union <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/chicago-schools-close-after-teachers-union-votes-for-remote-learning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">voted<\/a> overwhelmingly to reinstitute remote learning, which studies have shown has a significant negative impact on students.<\/p>\n<p>The union does not have the authority to close the schools, but the vote prompted local officials to make the call as negotiations continue on a plan to resume &#8220;student learning.&#8221; Days earlier, union leaders had <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/chicago-teachers-prepare-to-strike-over-return-to-classroom\/\">threatened<\/a> to strike if local officials sought to reopen the schools, citing an &#8220;unsafe&#8221; work environment due to COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the pandemic, teachers&#8217; unions throughout the country have consistently pushed back against efforts to get children back in classrooms despite numerous studies showing that poor, black, and Latino students are disproportionately <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/education\/when-covid-19-closed-schools-black-hispanic-poor-kids-took-n1249352\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">harmed<\/a> by school closures and remote learning. Ignoring this science, the Chicago Teachers Union argued that efforts to return to in-person learning were &#8220;rooted in sexism, racism, and misogyny.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hannah-Jones was assailed by critics for questioning the union&#8217;s decision but continued to point out that conditions have changed dramatically since the height of the pandemic. Perhaps it was time, she argued, for teachers to start prioritizing the well-being of their students.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With a staff that is 91 percent vaccinated I just don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s useful to have the identical conversations that we were having a year ago, especially when we know the impacts remote learning has had on our most vulnerable,&#8221; the racism expert <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nhannahjones\/status\/1478755454314496000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a>. &#8220;This was a different conversation when business were shut down and teachers were expected to go into work. But people\u2014including teachers\u2014are eating out, having family gatherings, traveling, and we have to have a different conversation now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politics Racism expert Nikole Hannah-Jones denounces union opposition to in-person instruction  Andrew Stiles \u2022 January 5, 2022 2:40 pm America&#8217;s foremost expert on racism is &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1191070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1191070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1191070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1191070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1191070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}