Most people will agree in general that teaching is a pretty thankless job. Bratty kids, parents who do not participate in their kids’ education, and woke school districts make for an almost impossible task.
In recent years, especially since COVID, though, in some school districts, teachers wanted to be paid to not work at the expense of students; it is obvious in those situations that many teachers are not in it for the kids, but for the benefits the teachers union can squeeze out of the taxpayers.
Currently, teachers in the San Francisco Unified School District are on strike, and one of their union demands is that parents help them, not the students.
On Thursday, the San Francisco teachers’ strike dragged into its fourth day with no end in sight. Teachers walked off the job earlier this week, keeping more than 50,000 students out of the classroom. The usual issues are the topic of negotiations, higher wages – more specifically, a nine percent raise over two years – and subsidized family healthcare—something the school district says it cannot afford.
Like most school districts whose teachers go on strike, the San Fran SD claims it could lose millions in funding for each day the strike goes on. But in a rare move that would keep students on track academically while they missed days in the classroom, the district prepared homework packets that, according to the district website, include, “five days of independent study work and practice in both English Language Arts and in Math.”