The pandemic has mostly been terrible for liberty. But one upside has been great progress that has been made in breaking the teacher's unions stranglehold on government schools.
"These moves put the teachers unions in a dilemma. Teachers unions despise mask-mandate bans. But they despise anything that threatens their monopoly even more. It’s a lose-lose scenario for the unions: They don’t want students to be stuck in schools that do not force them to wear masks. But they don’t want to let them out either.
The unions overplayed their hand by showing their true colors and holding children’s educations hostage for over a year. Their selfish desires already fueled momentum for 17 states to enact or expand programs to fund students rather than school systems this year — and support for school choice is at an all-time high. If unions keep it up, they might just destroy their own empire."
https://nypost.com/2021/08/09/teachers-unions-mask-demands-have-gotten-them-into-a-dilemma/
"These moves put the teachers unions in a dilemma. Teachers unions despise mask-mandate bans. But they despise anything that threatens their monopoly even more. It’s a lose-lose scenario for the unions: They don’t want students to be stuck in schools that do not force them to wear masks. But they don’t want to let them out either.
The unions overplayed their hand by showing their true colors and holding children’s educations hostage for over a year. Their selfish desires already fueled momentum for 17 states to enact or expand programs to fund students rather than school systems this year — and support for school choice is at an all-time high. If unions keep it up, they might just destroy their own empire."
https://nypost.com/2021/08/09/teachers-unions-mask-demands-have-gotten-them-into-a-dilemma/