From article:

Kids in Los Angeles have had it rough since 2020, kicked out of school to lie on their couches pretending to pay attention to Zoom for a full year and a half during the pandemic. Even when they were allowed back, they faced a host of vaccine mandates, mandatory mask requirements, and (useless) plexiglass barriers everywhere.

Now, the ever-helpful LA teachers union (United Teachers Los Angeles, or UTLA) has voted to boycott the first of four planned voluntary extra learning days designed to help struggling students catch up. Mind you, teachers would be paid for these days, but that’s not good enough because they have other plans. Instead of instructing, they’re going to be holding a rally downtown to demand increased pay and a host of other items detailed in their “Beyond Recovery” platform.

Because, you know, it beats having to actually teach.

You can tell the union’s priorities just by looking at the header on their Twitter page, which is also featured at the top of this article. Does it show a teacher teaching? Does it show a kid learning? No, it shows a woman yelling into a bullhorn, presumably making all sorts of demands at a rally. It should come as no surprise then to discover that the union president, Cecily Myart-Cruz, is a radical who tried to keep schools closed as long as possible during the pandemic (going so far as to say that California’s re-opening plan in 2021 was “propagating structural racism”) and who continues to spout inflammatory rhetoric in the few interviews she now gives. Reporter Jason McGahan wrote in Los Angeles Magazine Friday:

“There is no such thing as learning loss,” she [Myart-Cruz] responds when asked how her insistence on keeping L.A.’s schools mostly locked down over the last year and a half may have impacted the city’s 600,000 kindergarten through 12th-grade students. “Our kids didn’t lose anything. It’s OK that our babies may not have learned all their times tables. They learned resilience. They learned survival. They learned critical-thinking skills. They know the difference between a riot and a protest. They know the words insurrection and coup.”

https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2022/08/27/la-teachers-union-to-kids-we-dont-actually-care-about-you-n618827