Teachers have moved from classroom management to catastrophe management. What about the next school year? There’s lots of talk, lots of conjecture, but the truth is, no one knows anything yet. We can’t even plan.

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DeVos is not out front fighting for our children during this crisis. She is not concerned with the students who are struggling--both mentally and physically--to weather this storm. She is sailing her yacht while it navigates the remnants of their educational futures. Tossing the few remaining life preservers to the kids already on land, while the rest of America’s children flounder in the wake of the Covid-19 tsunami.

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If class sizes are capped at 17 and every class has a paired team of teachers both dually certified in SpEd and GenEd in every classroom, we can truly meet the needs of advanced, median, and unique needs students.

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Public schools reflect our health as a society. Right now we aren’t well. It’s time to refocus on integrating public schools, strong schools that unite, not divide. Start by returning to and studying what occurred in Raleigh. Now is the time.

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We need a system where murdering black people – even if you’re wearing a uniform – sends you to jail, and not only after global protests. We need a system where people feel safe, where no one has to worry about being targeted because of skin color, nationality, religion, immigration status, sexuality, gender or creed. We need a system where mass gatherings don’t trigger a police response but a political one to redress our grievances.

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We need to stop the schools to prison pipeline. However, we cannot forget the fact that schools need to be a safe place. Safety personnel should work directly for the school district, under the principal and superintendent, and not the police department. Our children need to be protected, but not criminalized.

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Make no mistake: we have not been teaching, we have been crisis managing. And in the fog of this emergency, our depletion has been compounded by a profound loss we have had neither the time nor presence to acknowledge: the dissolution of our Teacher Self.

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“I learned early on that the students have their own thoughts, and viewpoints as do their families. I work hard at presenting all sides of political issues, and let them research, discuss and make up their own minds. I teach them to question all politicians-- and question their teachers as well.”

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To quote James Baldwin, “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” We are trying to face the truth. Only time will tell whether it destroys us or we conquer it.

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We welcome all anti-racist and anti-fascist educators who are eager to use their greatest weapon to fight back: access to schools and classrooms. We cannot wait for the government to mandate schools be anti-racist. We must commit to this work now and forever.

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Unlike at any time before, this intimidating challenge truly demands union leaders capable and eager to defend, restore, and promote public education as a most necessary and valuable civic institution in America. In short, teachers’ associations’ leaders declining to profess and act according to union values will accelerate the corporate reformers’ plan to end public education as we know it.

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America used to be anti-fascist, when the world needed us to be. Now the president of the United States, is basically trying to criminalize dissent against fascism? I will not let that stand.

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It is way passed time to end gross overpayments to cyber charter schools and eliminate all charter schools ability to profit off of students with disabilities. Gov. Wolf estimates this would save districts more than $200 million while stopping wasteful spending by charters on advertising and other things that should not be bankrolled by taxpayers.

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The state government is also being corrupted by the prolific billionaire spending that is undermining democracy in America. In 2018, AB1840 which provided extra funding for financially strapped Oakland and Inglewood school districts was signed by Governor Brown. The root of their financial problems was the same; paying the extra unfunded costs associated with charter school openings and financial mismanagement by Broad trained superintendents.

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While struggling with remote teaching during the pandemic, teachers must try to sleep with the thought of layoffs whispering to them in the night.

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School buildings and teachers are the foundation for all that we hold dear in our democratic society--simply put, they are the building blocks for the future and technology will NEVER replace the caring, loving words of a teacher who will envelop each kid with a smile of support and encouragement that technology will never provide no matter how many times politicians or big business attempt to convince us otherwise.

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Even if we could give the CDTs seamlessly online at home, it would hurt our most underprivileged children by taking away opportunities and unjustly labeling them failures.

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