SACRAMENTO – Today Assembly Education Committee Vice Chair Kevin Kiley (R-Rocklin) put out the following statement in response to the California Teachers Association’s recent call to close California schools:
“Parents, health experts, and a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers agree kids need to be back in the classroom. But despite the overwhelming evidence supporting a safe return, a large Sacramento union conglomerate – representing neither students nor teachers – has launched a statewide disinformation campaign to keep schools closed.
“State and local health officials continue to report that COVID-19 is not being spread in our schools. The classroom has become one of the safest places for California students and teachers to be, while the dangers of school closures continue to mount.
“If California’s Legislature and Governor give in to this Special Interest pressure instead of following the scientific consensus, it will be one of the most consequential failures of political leadership in our state’s history.”
Earlier this week the California Teachers Association launched a statewide campaign calling on its members to contact the Governor “and tell him that no school in counties with COVID-19 rates in the Purple tier should be open for in-person instruction.” They also sent a letter to Legislators stating, “schools in communities at Purple Tier levels of transmission and risk should not be open or reopen.”
Current California Department of Public Health guidelines allow schools to remain open under the Purple Tier and Health and Human Services Secretary Mark Ghaly and his team have stated on multiple occasions that schools are not a source of community spread.
Assemblyman Kevin Kiley represents the 6th Assembly District, which includes the Sacramento, Placer, and El Dorado County communities of Cameron Park, El Dorado Hills, Fair Oaks, Folsom, Granite Bay, Lincoln, Loomis, Orangevale, Penryn, Rocklin, Roseville, and Sheridan.
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This is confusing , do we want schools open or closed? I might have mis understood but the article is not clear on what is gonna happen .
Kids want schools open. Good teachers want kids to come back. Lazy teachers want them closed. Unions back them up under the cover of “safety”. Most districts will allow high risk teachers to teach from home. This will go on for a long time. Meanwhile, students are suffering like never before while teachers can teach a tiny fraction of what they did while staying at home. Many teachers will teach their 50 minute class for 10 minutes and let them “work” offline. So much for being there for the kids.
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