Chicago’s teacher’s union voted on Sunday to defy Chicago Public Schools administration and refuse to return to in-person teaching even though pupils are due back in classrooms on February 1st.
Chicago Public Schools (CPS) has been locked in a power struggle with the union for some time, with teachers and union brass insisting that it is not safe for teachers to return to classrooms, even though Chicago’s private schools have been in-person for months. At one point, the Chicago Teachers Union, or CTU, suggested that any plan to return to in-classroom teaching would be both racist and sexist.
As the Daily Wire reported last week, some Chicago students — mostly preschoolers and those students with moderate to severe special needs — returned to empty classrooms, with teachers calling in sick to resist CPS’s demands that they return to classrooms. The union issued a list of demands to CPS instead, pledging to remain in “virtual” classrooms until “all school employees have had the opportunity to get vaccinated, or until the city’s positivity rate falls to 3 percent and its rate of new cases falls below 400 per day.”
The city’s positivity rate is now hovering around 5% and, as of Saturday, Illinois had returned to so-called “tier 1” mitigation strategies. The state lifted the ban on in-person dining and exercise classes and now allows for groups of up to 25 to meet together provided they observe social distancing.
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Give them notice to return to work in 3 days or fire them all and hire new teachers... non-certified if necessary as they can't do any worse than the current cabal of misfits and Marxist dupes.