Thread by @SlavaMalamud

There is NOTHING I want more (well, OK, with the exception of my kids' becoming international sex symbols) than teaching in person. Nothing. I dread the return to online learning.
But if it means life and death to some aged and sick colleagues, why is this a controversy?

https://twitter.com/WalshFreedom/status/1477988394978451458

Moreover, why is this a political thing? Because teachers' unions support Democrats? Well, fuck me, why shouldn't they, if the GOP is singlemindedly dedicated to eradicating public education?
For some reason nobody questions police unions' full-throated support of Republicans.

Democrats don't want to destroy the police force (not mainstream Democrats at least), but the GOP is fully dedicated to making sure public schools are extinct. Of course our unions vote blue.
But protecting health and safety of members is not a right-left issue. Or shouldn't be.

But if course all of it goes back to America's searing hatred and disdain for public school teachers. The GOP has many culture war winners in its scabbard, and "Don't you hate those loser commie teachers?!" is one of them.
No profession is hated more in the States. Not one.

Also an average American which union they'd love to destroy first, and ours will win with a huge margin. Among the few things American adults can agree on is that this country's most underpaid and underappreciated job should be even more underpaid and underappreciated.

At this point, I am not even sure why Dems continue to support us, though I am grateful for it.
There is no easier way for them to compete in suburban and rural districts than on the "Fuck teachers" platform.