Texas (WBAP/KLIF) – An online petition has garnered over 83,000 signatures in calling for the Texas Education Association to allow e-learning exclusively during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Teachers are particularly angered by the recent announcement that the TEA that members will be working from home until January, while educators and students are expected back to schools next month.
The petition organizer wrote:
” It is completely obvious that the Texas Education Agency knows that it is unsafe to return to campus, as demonstrated by TEA’s decision to remain working from home throughout the first semester of the school year. You know this, and yet you are making a conscious decision to put millions of people, students, faculty, and staff at risk of catching covid-19, the ramifications of which could be deadly.
Read more here.
Meantime, a Denton ISD teacher has made national headlines for a Facebook post predicting what he thinks will happen when schools reopen. Jon Ladner wrote:
“… my prediction for the fall is not very optimistic right now. Sorry. The way it’s looking, schools will open, teachers will be expected to show up, the virus will spread at an accelerated pace, people in our district will contract the disease, develop permanent lung conditions, spread the disease to family members, or die, and we will then shift to another poorly prepared online option that nobody wants for a while, and then on teacher appreciation day we’ll be told again that we’re all appreciated for how much we do for the kids.”
Read the entire post here.
Ladner made several television appearances including Richard French Live:
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