We should already be planning how we’re going to support the nigh-inevitable mass teachers’ strike in a few weeks.
Listen to teachers now.
Follow some teaching groups like Red For Ed in Arizona who already are protesting.
Watch cities like Phoenix, LA, Orlando, Miami, and other hot spots in the next couple of weeks.
Donate to your local teacher’s union. Donate to local school PPE funds.
We are already organizing. Help us prepare.
many of the worst places for this are where striking, collective bargaining, and/or labor unions (… effectively even if not literally) are illegal - meaning they could lose licensure, pensions, and/or be jailed for attempts at these.
even if you’re not in education, i truly encourage you to protest a full reopen of schools. call and ask them how many of them have pulled their own children but demand the teachers and students show up. as the op mentioned, donate money if/where you can.
children will die — especially those with disabilities. their guardians will die. educators and janitors will die. bus drivers will die. and now teachers are the ones who have to figure out what to do.
the governments know. they expect everyone, including children, to be okay with it when they get sick or are permantly disabled, or when people around them die or are permanently disabled from the government creating what WILL be entirely preventable nationwide superspreader events.
national unions and teachers’ organizations still provide aid where local chapters cannot. some examples are the NEA, the AFT, and the IWW.
(7/17/20)
