In Arizona, school reopening sparks protest movement

[Nevilledog]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-arizona-teachers-idUSKCN24J0FS

July 18 (Reuters) - Arizona third-grade teacher Stacy Brosius has been called a “liberal socialist Nazi” and a “whiner and complainer” for leading car-based protests to delay in-person schooling, but she says she’s doing it to save lives in a pandemic.

Inspired by Black Lives Matter demonstrations, hundreds of Arizona teachers like Brosius are putting on red t-shirts they last wore in a 2018 strike and driving around cities in cars daubed with slogans like: “Remote learning won’t kill us but COVID can!”

With “motor marches” spreading to other coronavirus-hit sunbelt states, including Florida, and counter demonstrators organizing “reopen” rallies, the fight over the new school year is fast becoming America’s new protest flashpoint.

In Arizona, teachers want Republican Governor Doug Ducey to push the start of in-person school to at least early October after a beloved educator died of COVID-19 teaching summer school and statewide hospitalizations and deaths spiral.

At stake, Arizona teachers say, is the safety of the state’s 1.1 million public school students and 20,000 teachers.

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[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. Every single one of the people who are saying the schools must open

should be volunteering to teach in a school.

If you are not directly connected to working in a school, whether as teacher, janitor, lunch room lady, or whatever, then you stay out of the debate.

[Nevilledog]

2. I agree.

[ck4829]

3. K&R