SF R.E.D.S. (San Francisco Radical Educators Defending Schools) is currently organizing to defend public education in the Bay Area & beyond. Solidarity Forever!
Sending all my love and solidarity to the CPS students walking out for safe conditions in theirs schools. S/O to the Roosevelt HS students joining the action. I’m so proud of you.
#COVID19SchoolIndicators
· 6,188 School Covid Cases as of 01/13 (138,495 since 9/13)
· The Dept. Of Ed are still hiding class closure numbers. (As of 01/06 there have been 26,879 since 9/13)
· over 805,950 students & staff quarantined since 9/13
Our Schools Are Not Safe!
“There’s so little actual care for students, even while the discourse is all about ‘care.’ If they cared they would increase funding, assure appropriate ventilation, & improve mental health. But we don’t hear any of that from the people telling us to go back into the buildings.”
We have to be able to talk abtthe harms of remote learning in a society where vaccines are available for all teachers without being accused of being anti-union or anti-teacher. We can disagree on what is the best thing to do when there are no good options without that accusation.
I will never forget at the start of the whole reopen schools nonsense, some 20yo kid @ Cal B had the cajones to jump in the rabid pit of “concerned moms” & said “yeah this all seems like bs. If this isn’t funded by Koch, Bloomberg, or Thiel, I’ll eat my shoe”
You want schools to stay open? You shoulda paid people to stay home. Had the world’s largest army deliver groceries& medicine. Nationalized healthcare. Delivered highquality PPE, tests, equipment 2 those in need. Sent vaccines & the means to deliver em all over the world for free
Why not offer them jobs at amazon immediately after graduation. Can even provide them with empty plastic bottles to weather the next hurricane or covid outbreak they have to work thru, watching their coworkers die!?
.@amazon is offering to fund up to $200 per classroom project for teachers in SFUSD schools that match the @DonorsChoose criteria of its Equity Focus Schools program. The campaign will extend throughout the school year until all dollars are allocated. https://t.co/zvd4muau3S