Teacher Unions and Their Alternative Facts – Chalkboard Review

And as convenient as it may be for Randi and her locals, including the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), to forget their role in this response, it’s worth revisiting here. When school districts tried to reopen last fall, the unions met them with a display that could have been mistaken for farce. In Washington DC, the union filled body bags and dumped them in front of district headquarters. In Chicago, the CTU threatened to strike, made their members sit outside during winter in Chicago to continue remote learning instead of walking into half-empty buildings, made an interpretive dance video, and suggested that the push to reopen schools was rooted in “sexism, racism, and misogyny.”