{"id":700708,"date":"2021-08-30T18:05:52","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T22:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=700708"},"modified":"2021-08-30T18:05:54","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T22:05:54","slug":"la-teachers-union-president-there-is-no-such-thing-as-learning-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/la-teachers-union-president-there-is-no-such-thing-as-learning-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Teachers\u2019 Union President: \u2018There Is No Such Thing as Learning Loss\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\">24<\/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%2Fla-teachers-union-president-there-is-no-such-thing-as-learning-loss%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=700708&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\/06\/GettyImages-1083167182-1_736x514.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>The president of one of the largest teachers&#8217; unions in the country denied that students suffered any educational setbacks caused by virtual schooling\u2014a claim rebuked by a variety of studies\u2014as labor leaders push back against school reopenings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Cecily Myart-Cruz, president of the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA), said students received a sufficient education in 2020 because they learned words like &#8220;protest&#8221; and &#8220;insurrection&#8221; rather than experiencing the benefits of in-class instruction from the union&#8217;s 33,000 members. Myart-Cruz fought against reopening efforts in the fall of 2020 and spring of 2021.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;There is no such thing as learning loss,&#8221; the union president <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lamag.com\/citythinkblog\/cecily-myart-cruz-teachers-union\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>told<\/span><\/a><span>&nbsp;<\/span><i><span>Los Angeles Magazine<\/span><\/i><span>. &#8220;Our kids didn&#8217;t lose anything. It&#8217;s 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.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>High school students who attended virtual schooling suffered academically, socially, and mentally in comparison with those who had in-person instruction, according to a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aera.net\/Newsroom\/Students-Attending-School-Remotely-Suffer-Socially-Emotionally-and-Academically\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>study<\/span><\/a><span> from the <\/span><span>American Educational Research Association<\/span><span>. More than half of K-12 teachers reported a significant loss in learning due to virtual instruction, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/03\/30\/learning-loss-from-virtual-school-due-to-covid-is-significant-.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>according<\/span><\/a><span> to a report by Horace Mann. The Centers for Disease Control <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/mm7011a1.htm?s_cid=mm7011a1_w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> virtual schooling may present more risks than in-person instruction.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Myart-Cruz successfully opposed school reopening in the fall of 2020, citing concerns with the pandemic. She went on to oppose Gov. Gavin Newsom&#8217;s (D.) reopening plan in the spring of 2021, which eventually resulted in a delayed hybrid reopening. Los Angeles schools fully opened in August with a mask requirement.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Laura Zorc, executive director of Building Education for Students Together, said teachers&#8217; unions deny the facts about the negative impact of virtual schooling because they are afraid to admit they were wrong.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Forcing students to stay out of school has shown the union&#8217;s true motivation and parents are now awake to it,&#8221; Zorc said. &#8220;Cecily Myart-Cruz&#8217;s comments demonstrate how out of touch the teachers&#8217; union&#8217;s priorities are with working-class Americans. This is nothing more than a cheap trick to disguise the lasting damage teachers&#8217; unions have done to families across the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span>The UTLA has become increasingly political under Myart-Cruz. The union is <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2021-06-05\/la-teacher-union-vote-israelis-palestinians-conflict\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>reportedly<\/span><\/a><span> set to take up a vote on whether to endorse the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement against Israel. Myart-Cruz rose to fame through her involvement with the National Education Association Black Caucus and Black Lives Matter Los Angeles. She served as a top UTLA official during the 2019 teacher strike that resulted in increased pay.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;It is not radical to ask for ethnic studies,&#8221; Myart-Cruz told the <\/span><i><span>Los Angeles Magazine<\/span><\/i><span>. &#8220;It is not radical to ask for childcare. It&#8217;s not radical to ask for police-free schools so that students don&#8217;t feel criminalized. That is not radical; that&#8217;s just fact.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president of one of the largest teachers&#8217; unions in the country denied that students suffered any educational setbacks caused by virtual schooling\u2014a claim rebuked by a variety of studies\u2014as &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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-700708","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\/700708","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700708\/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=700708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}