"In cities across the country, teachers have spent the last month asking for no more, and no less, than adequate testing, masking, and improved ventilation to prevent Covid from spreading in schools. With few exceptions, most districts have ignored our pleas, resulting in the Covid chaos we saw in schools last week." (Olenick)
"But once again, instead of standing in solidarity with teachers, instead of actually investing in entirely reasonable, proactive measures to keep kids and staff from getting sick, teachers have been abandoned to a cult of individualism and scapegoating by people who would rather do anything than confront the fact that a fascist movement is intentionally destroying every remnant of democracy we retain—including public schools." (Olenick)
"There is no democracy without public education. There is no public education without qualified, caring, and dedicated teachers." (Olenick)