Should public teachers be allowed back in the classroom?

Fire them all and destroy the teacher's union, just like Reagan did with the air traffic controllers.

I’m not so sure Billb doesn’t have a good idea there... it would be a bonus to crush the teachers Union...

Now that I think about it, I am a trained virtual facilitator, and have trained others to facilitate, too ... 🤔 hmmmm

If by "doing something different" you mean remote learning via computer screen or social media, the evidence is overwhelming that it is not only ineffective, but also terribly harmful to kids' social development and emotional health.

Give the teachers 72 to return to full-time classroom teaching or consider them to have quit and replace them.

We homeschooled three of our kids and the youngest had the most benefit.  They attended an online charter school.  They are all in college now and the youngest got a Dean's grant which clinched his decision for a local UC.   

Churches and other institutions did want to open up, but teachers along with their unions didn't.  They still have demands, unrelated to teaching, they want met before they go back.   Don't meat their demands.  It would be better for us to just continue to pay them to stay at home for good.  Public schools are ruining our kids, and then they go off to college and the professors finish the job.  If the teachers want to stay at home and get paid, let them.  Society will benefit.  Those teachers that want to teach can move to charter schools and parents can choose the schools based on their preferences.  The state can issue a voucher. 


Obviously, this has been discussed before and is a long shot, especially in California, but 10 years from now the society will benefit and the teachers can be public school teachers, the indoctrinators, can be sequestered.  The Democrats had ambitious plans.  We need an ambitious agenda too.  We are coming up to a recall election.  The teachers don't want to go back to work.  Grant them their wish. 

That is what they have been doing.  They have stayed at home and have gotten paid for it.  I agree with you and don't want to pay for people to do nothing, but IMO, this is best.  My suggestion is a longshot, and very unlikely.  It is more likely the schools will reopen without the demands of the unions being met, perhaps with some promises made by elected officials, and our kids will continue to be indoctrinated with a socialist agenda.  

I like that too.  But I doubt the voters would go for that in CA.   But, this might be the time for vouchers and charter schools, especially if the teachers unions aren't satisficed.  It is like the perfect storm to get something done.  We have a recall election, we have the unions calling to defund the police - whatever that means - etc, and the pandemic which forced the schools to close.  We may never get this chance again.  The current public school teachers are going to get paid, no matter what.  The teachers that are willing to give up that pay to teach at a charter school can.  

Granted, my whole scenario is unlikely, but something has gotta give before the country turns into a Marxist state.  

It's too bad that this rubs off on a lot of wonderful teachers, while it is mostly their Union Bosses supporting these actions and the D party line.