Only two years late, the Associated Press is reporting on the harmful effects school closures had on students:

School choice advocate Corey A. DeAngelis has posted an epic thread on the teachers’ unions and their part in keeping schools closed. He points to a representative from the American Federation of Teachers who doesn’t think it’s fair to “play the blame game.”

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Remember when they said the push to reopen schools was based on racism?

It was the summer of 2021 when AFT President Randi Weingarten tried to insist that her union has been trying to reopen schools since April 2020.

Not just fake body bags … remember when Iowa teachers wrote and sent their own obituaries to the governor ahead of fall reopenings?

For real: Six dance instructors from Chicago Public Schools put together a video using interpretive dance to “express their desire to feel safe” upon returning to the classroom and posted it to Twitter. Remarkably, it’s still up:

https://twitter.com/southbaytrading/status/1583852576503517185

And as the tweets above show, the unions worked in conjunction with the CDC to write the guidance on reopening schools — and that was supposed to be “the science.”

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