{"id":700006,"date":"2021-08-30T14:21:27","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T18:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=700006"},"modified":"2021-08-30T14:21:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T18:21:31","slug":"teachers-union-its-ok-that-kids-dont-know-math-they-know-the-words-insurrection-and-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/teachers-union-its-ok-that-kids-dont-know-math-they-know-the-words-insurrection-and-coup\/","title":{"rendered":"Teachers Union: \u2018It\u2019s OK\u2019 That Kids Don\u2019t Know Math, \u2018They Know The Words Insurrection and Coup\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/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%2Fteachers-union-its-ok-that-kids-dont-know-math-they-know-the-words-insurrection-and-coup%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=700006&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\/08\/GettyImages-1231734485-myart-cruz.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The head of the Los Angeles teachers union said \u201cthere is no such thing as learning loss,\u201d despite evidence of massive educational declines due to a year of remote learning.<\/p>\n<p>Cecily Myart-Cruz, president of United Teachers Los Angeles, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lamag.com\/citythinkblog\/cecily-myart-cruz-teachers-union\/\">LA Magazine<\/a> that \u201cIt\u2019s OK that our babies may not have learned all their times tables. They learned resilience. They learned survival. They learned critical-thinking skills. They know the difference between a riot and a protest. They know the words insurrection and coup.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When schools shut down in early 2020 due to coronavirus, the union demanded that teachers not have to teach remotely for more than four hours a day, despite receiving pay for a full day. Teachers often simply posted assignments that students were expected to download and complete on their own.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly two-thirds of students largely ignored this version of school, and almost none of the district\u2019s 229,000 elementary school students logged on at all, LA Magazine reported.<\/p>\n<p>Staying at home has also made children <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baconsrebellion.com\/wp\/closing-schools-made-children-fatter-more-vulnerable-to-covid\/\">fat<\/a>, which is one of the main risk factors for coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>In calling for schools to be closed completely last school year, the union focused more on far-left politics, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.utla.net\/sites\/default\/files\/samestormdiffboats_final.pdf\">writing<\/a>&nbsp;that \u201cThe COVID-19 pandemic in the United States underscores the deep equity and justice challenges arising from our profoundly racist, intensely unequal society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They demanded to \u201cdefund police,\u201d make housing a human right, and institute a moratorium on charter schools, which are popular with racial minorities but which the union said could \u201cdrain resources\u201d from the union members\u2019 employer.<\/p>\n<p>The superintendent, Austin Beutner, quit on June 30, writing in his resignation letter that \u201cUTLA leadership were asked to consider all the different ways to [return to classrooms] with full pay\u2026 They would not agree to any of these.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Parents filed lawsuits (one alleged that \u201cUTLA and its president Cecily Myart-Cruz have held the current well-being and future prospects of LAUSD students hostage\u201d) and demanded the recall of school board members.<\/p>\n<p>But Myart-Cruz gloated: \u201cYou can recall the Governor. You can recall the school board. But how are you going to recall me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As students languished, Myart-Cruz pushed for a property tax hike, which was rejected by voters. When Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom offered $2 billion in extra funding for schools that opened by April 2021 <i>\u2014<\/i> which presumably would address the same funding needs underlying a property tax hike <i>\u2014<\/i> Myart-Cruz rejected the offer, saying too much of the money would go to \u201cwhite and wealthier schools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As remote learning widened the racial gap when it came to academic performance, Myart-Cruz insisted that calls to provide school to children were racist.<\/p>\n<p>She claimed she was being \u201cstalked by wealthy, white, Middle Eastern parents.\u201d A UTLA staff member contacted one parent, Maryam Qudrat, who wanted her child to at least receive more hours of Zoom classes, asking \u201cpointed questions about her racial background,\u201d LA Magazine reported.<\/p>\n<p>For the school year beginning this month <i>\u2014<\/i> the third school year affected by coronavirus <i>\u2014<\/i> the union insisted on a virtual option for those who want it, which experts believe will be used largely by blacks and Latinos and which clearly leads to worse academic results than in-person learning.<\/p>\n<p>Even within the union, Myart-Cruz\u2019s claim to a mandate is thin: only 16 percent of the union\u2019s 33,000 members voted in its 2020 officers election.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the teachers union is astonishingly powerful. Its electoral efforts in ordinarily low-turnout races make politicians afraid to cross it. Voters have elected union officials as school board members, including Myart-Cruz\u2019s romantic partner, who is an Oakland school board member.<\/p>\n<p>In the first quarter of this year, the California Teachers Association, the UTLA\u2019s statewide affiliate, spent $2.85 million on lobbying, more than twice as much as the second- and third-biggest special interests, which were both oil companies.<\/p>\n<p>The magazine quoted a former school official who refused to give his name because he was \u201cscared\u201d of the union. \u201cUTLA is not a normal union,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/teachers-pledge-violate-law-crt-hide-evidence\">After Pledging They Would Violate Law To Teach CRT, Teachers Scramble To Hide Evidence<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and <span class=\"il\">counter-cultural<\/span>&nbsp;outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1615934302565000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHOV8alRjqO61ImZWCRpqOILgWzkg\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the Los Angeles teachers union said \u201cthere is no such thing as learning loss,\u201d despite evidence of massive educational declines due to a year of remote learning.Cecily &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-700006","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\/700006","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700006\/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=700006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}