It’s Time To Re-Open Schools. It’s Time To Defund The Teachers Unions

By Tristan Justice and Jordan Davidson

The conversation about school reopenings has focused on what’s best for the teachers’ unions as opposed to what’s best for the students.

Three million students appear to have gone missing since March of last year, according to a new study from the non-profit Bellwether Educational Partners. Those who vanished came primarily among the “most educationally marginalized students in the country,” an unsurprising statistic given what we know about school closures. A January study from Yale University warned that if schools were to close a full year, high school freshmen in the nation’s poorest communities would suffer “a 25 percent decrease in their post-educational earning potential.”

“By contrast, their model shows no substantial losses for students from the richest 20% of neighborhoods,” a Yale newspaper wrote.

School closures are imposing the longest-lasting effects of the coronavirus pandemic, and it’s entirely self-inflicted. Millions of students have remained out of classrooms for 12 months and remain at the mercy of power-hungry teachers’ unions exploiting the crisis for political and financial gain before re-opening, if they ever re-open.

full story at https://thefederalist.com/2021/03/04/its-time-to-re-open-schools-its-time-to-defund-the-teachers-unions/