Teachers' unions locked kids out of schools to get more of your money, not for safety

Our children were political pawns in a game rigged by teachers' unions and blue state politicians.

Dr. Carol Swain is a Distinguished Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies with the Texas Public Policy Foundation and a former tenured professor at Vanderbilt and Princeton universities. She is co-author with Christopher Schorr of Black Eye for America: How Critical Race Theory is Burning Down the House.

Hanushek projected that learning losses could result in a $70,000 drop in lifetime earnings and a $28 trillion loss for the next century. Specifically, this downturn will affect states according to their students’ scores. Utah (-2.7 points) will fare better than Oklahoma and Delaware (-12 points); Texas (-5-7 points) will fare better than its bordering states (-7-10 points). "Without action," Hanushek warned "not only will individuals in the COVID cohort of students suffer long-term income losses, but also the individual states will see shrunken economic activity."

But teachers’ unions and blue state politicians don’t want action. They want to perpetuate the pandemic forever. Already, Philadelphia and Camden schools have temporarily brought back COVID-era mandatory mask policies for students and staff returning from the holiday break.