The Issue: The teachers union’s push for schools to move back to remote learning during the Omicron spike.
Is it really any surprise that teachers are reluctant to return to full-time, in-person teaching (“Shuttering class more harmful to kids’ health,” Joel Zinberg, Jan. 6)?
Teachers are people, too, you know — and constituents. For the better part of the last two years, a fear-based approach has been used by certain leaders to get what want from those they purport to represent.
In far too many instances, there has not even been the suggestion of balance or nuance.
Now all of that ginned-up emotion that teachers have is supposed to go away because some of those same leaders find themselves boxed into a corner of their own making? Fat chance.
John Sheridan
The Bronx
Mayor Adams points out the dire need to provide in-person learning.
His reasons are that virtual learning has not worked, schools provide the only meals to lots of New York City kids and that it’s a safe environment that allows parents to go to work.
Well, Mr. Mayor, most city kids can’t do their lessons. They’re under-supervised at home. Schools fail the kids, and the kids fail at school.
New York City schools can’t lower their standard any more. They provide lunch and baby-sitting services. No wonder America is in decline.
Jackson Schwartz
Brooklyn
The behavior of teachers is nothing short of disgusting. I will bet they have been out and about in places with 10 times the risk of infection as a classroom with low-risk children.
The science is clear now. They also had billions of dollars to make the schools safe. Has anyone audited that money?
Teachers never were on the front lines during this pandemic. We need to stop paying them because they are now malingering without scientific justification. It’s time to go back.
Phil Serpico, Queens
So teachers are afraid to go to school and do their jobs, yet many are going on vacations, going to bars, restaurants, salons, sporting events, etc.
Ronald Reagan’s response to air traffic controllers is the answer: Fire them all. If mom and dad have to teach their kids because teachers won’t do their job, pay them for time lost on their profession.
Teachers are destroying youth with radicalization. It’s time it stops.
Storm Destro
Bayonne, NJ
The Issue: Professor Allyn Walker’s work to replace the term “pedophile” with “minor-attracted persons.”
Owning child pornography is a crime (“Language Matters,” Ian Oxnevad, PostScript, Jan. 2).
If a person openly identifies as a “minor-attracted person,” the repercussions for that crime might be softened. We can’t allow this to happen.
Children need to remain a protected class, even more so as human trafficking and Internet pornography proliferate.
Children need advocates. An adult who professes a sexual attraction to children needs treatment for pedophilia.
Normalizing this proclivity as a recognized sexual preference and putting children in harm’s way makes as much sense as giving the drug-addicted spaces to shoot up instead of life-saving rehab.
N. Albanese
New Rochelle
This professor is trying to emulate Lewis Carroll’s Humpty Dumpty, who said: “A word means just what I choose it to mean. Nothing more, nothing less.” It’s dangerous.
Words are the building blocks of logic and thought. When the meaning of a word is twisted, the result is the obscuring of truth.
Thomas Birnbaum
Manhattan
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