{"id":185197,"date":"2021-03-01T14:45:30","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T19:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=185197"},"modified":"2021-03-01T14:45:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T19:45:36","slug":"berkeley-teachers-union-president-seen-taking-daughter-to-in-person-classes-after-leading-charge-to-keep-schools-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/berkeley-teachers-union-president-seen-taking-daughter-to-in-person-classes-after-leading-charge-to-keep-schools-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"Berkeley Teachers Union President Seen Taking Daughter To In-Person Classes After Leading Charge To Keep Schools Closed"},"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\">34<\/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%2Fberkeley-teachers-union-president-seen-taking-daughter-to-in-person-classes-after-leading-charge-to-keep-schools-closed%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=185197&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GettyImages-1228644433.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The president of a California teachers union is under fire after video surfaced of him taking his two-year-old daughter to an in-person preschool.<\/p>\n<p>Berkeley Federation of Teachers president Matt Meyer has been advocating for a \u201cgold standard\u201d that says schools in Berkeley, California cannot reopen until all educators and district staff members have been vaccinated and schools agree to enforce social distancing and mask wearing, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berkeleyside.com\/2021\/02\/17\/berkeley-unified-announces-tentative-plan-to-return-to-hybrid-learning-this-spring\">according to<\/a> nonprofit news website Berkeleyside.<\/p>\n<p>The plan would allow preschool through second grade students to return to class on March 29. Students in grades three through nine would be able to return on April 12, and 10<sup>th<\/sup> through 12<sup>th<\/sup> graders would return a week after that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis plan is the Gold Standard,\u201d Meyer said in mid-February. \u201cSocial distancing, mask-wearing, and vaccinations for adults will create the safest environment for in-person education for the end of this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet a video has surfaced showing Meyer taking his young daughter to an in-person preschool, leading to accusations of \u201chypocrisy\u201d from parent groups, KQED <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kqed.org\/news\/11862469\/after-leading-school-closures-berkeley-teachers-union-president-spotted-dropping-daughter-off-at-in-person-preschool\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These parent groups have argued that schools are already safe to reopen, even without every teacher being vaccinated. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has also stated the schools are safe, as the transmission rate is next to nonexistent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLooking to prove a double-standard by the Berkeley Federation of Teachers union president, they followed Meyer and his 2-year-old daughter to her preschool, camera in hand. The footage they captured has ignited the ire of parents groups fighting teachers unions \u2014 and Meyer in particular,\u201d KQED reported.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Shelene Stine, who works at Highland Hospital\u2019s department of internal medicine and treats COVID-19 patients, said the difference was massive between learning methods for her 3-year-old twins, who attend the same preschool as Meyer\u2019s daughter, and her five-year-old in kindergarten at a school that has not reopened.<\/p>\n<p>Stine, the outlet reported, has \u201cspoken at rallies to reopen public schools and written public letters to the Berkeley Unified School District to push them to reopen safely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The outlet explained that the preschool includes \u201cplay-based learning\u201d while the kindergarten employs \u201csenses-dulling video-screens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Berkeley teachers, KQED noted, have suggested as part of their refusal to return to work that children might not adhere to mask-wearing rules. Stine, however, told the outlet that was not her experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am a physician. It is definitively the scientific agreement that it is possible to deliver safe in-person education,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s infuriating to know Matt Meyer says kids can\u2019t wear masks when kids in his preschool wear them all day long.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meyer\u2019s response to the video was to claim it was an intrusion of his young daughter\u2019s privacy, though she was blurred by those who filmed her prior to posting online. Meyer contended that Guerilla Momz, the group who took the video, scared his daughter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have my two-year-old in preschool. Unfortunately, there are not public schools for kids her age. We are excited that we will be reopening soon with a plan that our members and the district supports,\u201d Meyer told KQED.<\/p>\n<p>He added that one of the people who filmed him \u201cscared my kid and the others in the vicinity. It was super inappropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Members of Guerilla Momz denied scaring any children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019d heard for a while that he sent his kid to private preschool and we\u2019ve been hearing him make crazy claims at the school board meetings \u2014 it was \u2018too dangerous\u2019 for schools to open because kids wouldn\u2019t wear masks. Meanwhile, his kid is wearing a mask at school,\u201d the group said in a statement obtained by KQED.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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