New York City’s teachers’ union, like its counterparts around the country, has been doing everything possible to fight against the need to reopen schools.
New York finally reopened elementary schools, but the United Federation of Teachers has been fighting against reopening middle schools and high schools. The so-called solidarity caucus of 4,000 UFT teachers wants to close schools entirely. Other lefty elements in the UFT have been shrieking that making them do their jobs will kill them. This didn’t stop them from trekking off to Sharpton’s 50,000 bigot march in D.C. or from protesting in person against teaching in person.
In New York City, the United Federation of Teachers, which is affiliated with the AFT, marched with cardboard coffins and fake body bags. Some union teachers wore skeleton t-shirts.
A Halloween skeleton attached to a garbage bag held a cardboard sickle and a message written next to dripping blood, “Welcome Back to School”. “I can’t teach from a cemetery,” one sign claimed. Another declared, “We Won’t Die for the Department of Education.”
Despite their claim that they feared for their lives, the march had little social distancing.
Meanwhile Annie Tan is keeping up her shtick of being the poster girl for the UFT’s “Making Us Teach Kids Will Kill Us” movement. If you want a sample, her current Twitter handle is, “Annie Tan is no martyr for DOE”.
“I think in particular “I have a right not to meet others’ unreasonable expectations of me” is the truest and most life-affirming thing I can read during this pandemic. My and our community health and well-being are way more important than our value and productivity to capitalism,” she tweeted.
Meanwhile, one middle school teacher found the time to do things in person.
The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s says a New York City teacher was arrested after he met up with a Florida minor he met online.
According to the sheriff, on Saturday, January 23, around 1:30 a.m., Zeshaan Naqvi, 31, picked up a minor at their Tampa residence and brought them back to his hotel room.
The sheriff’s office said Naqvi was arrested at the hotel and admitted to officials he knew the victim was underage.
“It never ceases to amaze us the lengths predators will go to, to get what they want,” said Sheriff Chad Chronister. “In this case, a middle school history teacher booked a ticket, boarded a plane, and traveled across the country to meet with a minor who he had been chatting with for about three months. This behavior is deeply disturbing and serves as a grim warning to parents to monitor their child’s online activity.”
Zeshaan Naqvi appears to be a teacher at The Young Women’s Leadership School of Queens which is a middle school. Naqvi appears to live in Queens which is home to a large Muslim community.
The situation obviously reminds people of the Muslim sex grooming scandals in the UK.
Either way, if UFT teachers can molest students in person, they can teach in person.
gravenimage says
New York Teacher Couldn’t Teach In-Person, Could Molest Girl In-Person
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Having a Muslim pedophile teach at The Young Women’s Leadership School of Queens is one of the great ironies of our time…
mortimer says
Yes, Muslim pedophiles can point to the founder of Islam to justify their perversion.
DazzleMe says
Pedophile and muslim, their favorite combination
Basava Raju says
First thing Biden did was to remove restrictions on entry of Jihadis into US.
With vulnerable impoverished Population, Single Mother’s, young girls from broken families will be targeted.
Grooming gangs will be new normal under Biden.
williuam carr says
I have to ask leadership in what exactly?
Nick says
The line from Daniel’s report above:
“Despite their claim that they feared for their lives, the march had little social distancing.”
Made me chuckle!
Kepha says
My wife and I both teach, and both are old. There is a part of me that would take chances going back to classrooms, if for no other reason that distance learning provides far more opportunities for the immature and irresponsible to play hookey; while losing the effect of the more responsible students “infecting” the others with the willingness to at least try. Distance learning also takes away the rapport-building opportunities that can do a lot for those struggling in a classroom. Further, I don’t shut down and my students don’t shut down when there’s an electrical glitch somewhere. In contrast, my wife is far more worried about the threat.
While I agree that the political exploitation of the c19 pandemic is shameful, and the shenanigans of the Left in closing classrooms while allowing demonstrations [which support the Left, at least]–to say nothing of the blatant “rules are for the little people” hypocrisy of much of the Democratic Party–the population is still confused about what the science of the pandemic actually says. There is little awareness that science is always tentative (especially when dealing with a new phenomenon), but, instead, a perception that the men in white coats are omniscient and infallible when they pronounce “science says”. Can we then blame people for being confused and unsure when the experts change their tunes from time to time?
This being said, were I a New Yorker, I would be fiercely anti-DeBlasio and Fredo.
James Lincoln says
At first glance I thought that it was Ron Jeremy…
gravenimage says
Ron Jeremy looks less unpleasant…
The Istanbulian says
How is teaching public school in any way, shape, or form a capitalistic venture?
gravenimage says
Damn good question.
LR says
I was wondering that too.
I thought lefties were all for public schools because they are a bit ‘socialistic.’
Lauren Smith says
I was wondering that too?
I thought lefties were all for public school, since it is rather ‘socialistic’.
DazzleMe says
I would have no problem with him not teaching my child, he’s scary!
Linde Barrera says
To DazzleMe-I am a retired public school teacher. I was physically present on the first day of class in the course “Foundations of Education” at Pace University Graduate School-Sept.1993. The professor, Dr. Ruth Ferguson, told us “The first doctrine of teaching is ‘DO NO HARM TO ANY CHILD- WHETHER PHYSICAL, MENTAL OR EMOTIONAL.”
And that doctrine is paramount because all children are innocent. So how any teacher could do what Zeshaan Naqvi did is beyond belief. In America, a person is innocent until proven guilty. But if the accused is proven guilty in a lawful trial, the accused should lose all benefits as well as the right to teach anywhere.
And I believe it is time for all teachers and their students to get back to learning in the classroom in person with everybody wearing masks and social distancing. In my opinion, they could have half the class in the morning and half the class in the afternoon with a lunch break in between, much like morning and afternoon kindergarten used to be.
Please everyone, pray that life returns to the way it had been in September 2019.
L R says
I agree Linda..
I thought adults are suppose to sacrifice for the next generation.
As adults, that is what we are suppose to do.
We have to learn to live with this virus. It’s mutating, and young people are committing suicide because of so much isolation. We don’t know everything but we know the basics. I figure if one wears a mask, face shield, and makes sure they do not touch their face until thoroughly washing hands, that is the best you can so.
If exposed to covid9 one can take the z-pac
or, Ivermectin. Or, take it as prophylactic if afraid of catching virus.
Westman says
“..picked up a minor at THEIR Tampa residence and brought THEM back to his hotel room.”
Is this usage of a new screwed-up pronoun?
L R says
Not in this context, no.
I assume the media is keeping it vague on purpose. We do not know if it was a boy, or girl.
E T says
United Socialist of America – How many members are teachers? Hydroxycloroquine, have any of the “teachers” heard of it? WHO oops -97% of positive tests are false. A cold is a corona virus. Usually a scientific paper takes 120 days, not 24 hours.
Klaus Schwab “We must push lockdowns, pandemics, Build Back Better and Climate Change”
If you live in Florida, you should be very worried. An Environmental Ethics Professor told the class in 1987 that by 2014 “all of Florida will be under water”.
Twenty five years ago I read a book about the “Dumbing Down of Society”, we have arrived.
OMG the sky is going to fall any day.
E T says
Merck has ended its vaccine program after poor test results.
L R says
Klaus Scwab is evil, but many world leaders are all on the game, because well, birds of a feather must flock together.
Geof says
Muslums should be barred from teaching infidel kids
E T says
And so should the United Socialists of America members. Good luck with that.
OLD GUY says
It’s just the beginning, the more muslims we allow into America the more rapes and murders in the name of islam will take place. Islam justifies crime and violence against non-muslims, so WHY Joe do you want to open our borders to these people? It appears that the money and votes they may bring with them for the liberal Democrats is worth the rape of our children and the murder of American citizens.
Impeach and vote out of office all politicians who do not protect us and our borders from these hate America islamic migrants. How are people who hate America going to make us a better country? We don’t need these people period.
E T says
After all this lockdown time, people have died because they did not get their operations and treatments, jobs that have been lost, Biden wants to bring in misfits and Trudeau states he will bring in 412 thousand this year. What irresponsible, narcissistic morons vote for them?
Suicide by country