{"id":1205948,"date":"2022-01-10T19:34:43","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T00:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1205948"},"modified":"2022-01-10T19:34:55","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T00:34:55","slug":"whoops-leftist-teen-group-says-teachers-union-is-behind-protest-asking-kids-to-skip-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/whoops-leftist-teen-group-says-teachers-union-is-behind-protest-asking-kids-to-skip-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Whoops: Leftist \u2018Teen\u2019 Group Says Teachers Union Is Behind Protest Asking Kids To Skip School"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fwhoops-leftist-teen-group-says-teachers-union-is-behind-protest-asking-kids-to-skip-school%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=1205948&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--><p>A purported student group called \u201cTeens Take Charge\u201d announced an action mirroring teachers\u2019 union demands, saying New York City students would walk out of school on Tuesday to protest the lack of a \u201cremote\u201d option for teachers and students.<\/p>\n<p>The group said, \u201cOur partners at Students Break the Silence, PRESS NY, MORE-UFT Caucus, Student Success Network, &amp; The YA-YA Network are organizing A STUDENT WALK-OUT!\u201d MORE-UFT is a far-left faction of the United Federation of Teachers teachers union.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty minutes later, Teens Take Charge sent a \u201ccorrected\u201d announcement saying the walk-out was an organic movement by kids, not the list of special interest groups. \u201cCORRECTION: The Student Walk Out is organized by a concerned group of New York City public school students, not any existing organization,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>Thiviya Navarathnam, operations director for The Bell, a nonprofit behind the Teens Take Charge group, told The Daily Wire that \u201cThe original information on the partners was a miscommunication, pulled from this <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/breaksilencenyc\/status\/1480285132628054023\">tweet<\/a> from Students Break the Silence. However, our contacts at Students Break the Silence clarified after the email went out that the walk-out after is being organized by a group of students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MORE-UFT did not immediately return a request for comment on whether it had any role.<\/p>\n<p>Teachers unions are increasingly alienated from parents and politicians of both parties as they seek to avoid showing up for work because of coronavirus fears. Remote learning has caused severe emotional problems and loss of learning, and it hits hardest for impoverished students who do not have parents who can stay home with them. President Joe Biden and his spokeswoman have said schools are not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/jen-psaki-u-s-schools-are-more-than-equipped-to-remain-open-during-covid-19-surge\">safe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/schools-got-130b-to-re-open-some-of-it-went-to-crt-now-many-are-closed\">Schools Got $130B To Re-Open. Some Of It Went To CRT. Now Many Are Closed.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But in children, unions may have found a group willing to make demands that mirror their workplace negotiations \u2014 even if skipping school causes them to fall even further behind academically. The student protest is similar to an action by MORE-UFT, which <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MOREcaucusUFT\/status\/1479289856916344835\">advertised<\/a> a \u201cRally for Safety\u201d on Monday to \u201cdemand\u201d \u201cRemote until January 18th.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Chicago, Democrat Mayor Lori Lightfoot angrily blasted the teachers union after it told teachers to refuse to report to work last week, causing schools to be shuttered. \u201cI think the only way to read it is the union trying to politicize the pandemic,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-chicago-schools-to-close-for-third-consecutive-day-as-teachers-union-fights-return-to-in-person-class\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey do it at the expense of our children,\u201d she said. \u201cThey do it at the expense of our families. We know that when we were fully remote previously, 100,000 of our kids lost contact and would disengage from the system. We saw in the elementary schools the failure rate during remote learning triple from what it was. We saw the trauma and social emotional harm to students across our system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If teachers have encouraged kids to skip school, it would not be the first time that supposedly organic groups in New York City have accidentally admitted to being cut-outs for more entrenched special interests.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, Mariam Nunberg, an activist and professional education consultant, wrote in an email to leftist activist groups that NYC Department of Education officials had asked the groups to drown out a parents\u2019 group called PLACE which opposes the abolition of test-based admission to magnet schools. DOE could then cite the activist groups to say that it was merely responding to public opinion by abolishing the tests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDOE folks have reached out to many of these partners, asking our people to make more noise,\u201d Nunberg <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/05\/26\/nyc-doe-wants-competitive-school-admissions-opposers-to-get-louder\/\">wrote<\/a>, before quickly adding for discretion saying \u201cI\u2019m writing to follow up with a request not to forward the full text of the email I sent, since it has come to my attention that it might be problematic for word to get out that the DOE is encouraging folks to make noise in response to PLACE.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nunberg\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/teens-take-charge\/im-one-of-the-lucky-ones-8bcbfd80185\">son<\/a> was a Teens Take Charge activist, despite attending one of the elite \u201cscreened schools\u201d whose admissions process the activists view as racist.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A purported student group called \u201cTeens Take Charge\u201d announced an action mirroring teachers\u2019 union demands, saying New York City students would walk out of school on Tuesday to protest the lack of a \u201cremote\u201d option for teachers and students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"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-1205948","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\/1205948","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\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1205948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205948\/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=1205948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}