A Chicago public school teacher says that in-person schooling amid the COVID-19 pandemic permits “nice white parents” to kill black families.
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In an essay published Monday in the
Education Post, Chicago public school teacher Mike Friedberg said that the city is catering to white parents’ demands in reopening schools amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The essay, titled, “Are We Going to Let ‘Nice White Parents’ Kill Black and Brown Families?” explained how Friedberg feels that white people are comfortable sacrificing the lives of black and brown families in order to force a return to a normal way of life.
“A new COVID-19 strain is more contagious than ever,” he wrote. “The Trump administration’s sheer neglect in the face of this deadly pandemic is enraging. Federal inaction has cost lives, and we are far from getting back to a daily normal life. Schools are no exception to this situation. Given the plans to offer vaccines to teachers over the next several weeks, it does not make sense now to force children and staff back into the building.”
Friedberg added, “Students, parents, and teachers are fearing for their lives,” and pointed out that the city is “catering to the [white] minority of parents” who demand school reopening.
“As the reopening debate gets hotter,” he explained, “we are seeing a new breed of ‘nice white parents’ emerge. The parents who wished to open school buildings are disproportionately white. In meeting after meeting, I have witnessed black and Latinx parents voice concerns.”
Recent findings from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that “students and teachers may be able to safely return to in-person instruction, even in communities with widespread coronavirus infection” so long as safety practices — including masking, social distancing, and proper disinfection protocols — are put in place.
Friedberg argued, however, that many Chicago-area schools are not “adequately equipped to take all the necessary preventative and protective measures.”
“Here in Chicago, I have spoken with scores of teachers who do not have adequate HVAC systems in their buildings,” he explained. “Some teachers were given air purifiers that only cover 500 square feet, vastly smaller than most classrooms. … If we open schools in communities with higher positivity rates, especially when those schools are not adequately supplied with protective measures, the risk to staff, students, and families is much higher.”
He added, “I do not want to risk my students’ lives or my own.”
Making an argument for remote learning, Friedberg said that he and his colleagues have been “working harder than ever” in order to deliver students and their families “high-quality instruction.”
“Students can still learn remotely and have an engaging, rigorous curriculum,” he added. “As an instructor, this is what I’m doing for my students, including focusing on research-based student choice activities. As a parent, that is what I am witnessing for my own children.”
Friedberg pointed out that if people kowtow to the demands of white parents, then those voices will be placed above the demands of those from black and brown parents.
“Are we really at a point where not wanting our students to die, and not wanting to die ourselves, is a point of debate?” he asked. “This is completely absurd. We are putting the voices of white parents above black and brown parents, as well as teachers and all school staff, including disproportionately women of color.”
He concluded, “As a teacher, I fear for my own life and the lives of my students and their families. I can’t teach from the grave, nor can kids learn from there. If we do not speak up, nice white parents will get us killed.”
(H/T: The College Fix)
I love it. Chicago the ‘City of Crime’ will now have to change their name to ‘Chicago – The Incredibly Stupid City of Crime’.
She just wants her check so she can stay at home and not earn it. And why isn’t this considered a racist statement? Kids are not learning in the stay at home environment and need to be in school.
This teacher needs to be fired. This has nothing to do with the color of your skin, this is about children getting a proper education. They need to be in school, not in front of a computer all day. They need interaction with other students. Private schools are open, but public schools remained closed, WHY? These teachers get paid no matter what, they want their pay check but don’t bother me about working in a classroom. U don’t want to teach, QUIT.
Maybe your undisciplined children are not learning. Mine are thriving very well!
I hope teachers are not being paid while they are staying home using the virus as an excuse. No work, no pay. And if they are being paid, the tax payers should really be ticked off and start going to school board meeting to protest this payment for no work. Kids are the least likely to have the virus and least likely to pass it on.
Yes. I worry most about the poor people who have kids trying to learn from home. Parents have to be at work and kids don’t have proper tools or environment to learn. This teacher has everything backwards.
this man is an idiot, must be on some serious DRUGS
Friedberg’s brains are fried, likely due to years of drug abuse. When are these Marxist Bigoted farts going to be sent packing? If this lazy arse doesn’t want to teach, he should quit and let someone else do it. What I REALLY suspect from this teacher is that he is scared to death of black kids but can’t admit it because his own idiot democrats and their lapdog media would bury him. Teaching kids REMOTELY would cover this jackass Friedberg’s real reason for not wanting in class teaching.
Let’s not worry about the nightly killings going on in the city, but about some hypocrite who obviously thinks white people are bad. Opening up schools has already been declared safe, that the transfer of the covid is lower in schools than any other place.
and my fear is that my children and grandchildren will get a racist instructor just like you……….
Mike Friedhead! Are you really that incredibly stupid – or is it that you think we are????
The blacks and particularly those that support the blm movement are trying to emulate the south african model of black/white relations in this country. They want what others have without doing the work involved. Affirmative action and now biden’s new equity bill are living proof that the greasy wheel deserves to get greased, permanently. The more grease they get, the more they want. It’s shameless and so is the fact that teachers are enjoying their full salaries while the tax paying citizens that they berate pay their taxes for the lack of services that they now receive.
Mike Friedberg is inciting unrest with the assertion that white people are attempting to sacrifice the welfare of black people for their own selfish reasons. People just want their kids back in school. Mike Friedberg wants to continue to get fully compensated for doing whatever he damn well pleases.
What’s next? A war in Taiwan, maybe? Are we missing Trump yet?…
It is not white people keeping racism alive, it is people like this teacher, who are not only keeping it alive but instilling it in the young people to keep it going for yet another generation. They will never let it die, you know why, because then they would not having someone to blame for all of their problems on. It is easier to blame all of your troubles on white people, than it is to accept the consequences of your own actions, quit passing this thinking on to your children. Some kind of teacher you are, you need to find another line of work.
Congrats, you have succumb to the false narrative of the MSM instilling fear in the weak minded and spineless comrades. Change your vocation, you are definitely not qualified to teach children how to overcome obstacles and pursue a fulfilling life and top blaming others for your own shortcomings.
another aIIeged minority educator with a Degree from a Cracker Jack Box
Then why isn’t she dead? Three choices: Go back to work; Quit; or be Fired.
I am tired of being called a racist . I am 74 years old . These people should have lived in the fifties and sixties, that was racism. The Democrats have always been the racist, not conservatives. We must stand up to these people. If we don’t, this country as we it , is done . I guess all conservative whites will be sent to Africa, by Joeboma.
Sounds like she is a Racist by her attitude towards white people.
as I have said before demorats are so stupid I don’t know how
they manage normal life
they will say anything even if it is STUPID!!!!
I’m not racist, but this article, and others like it make me think of race more and more – and not in a good way. I’m tired of being demonized by the left. And people who are not working should not get paid, just like all the business owners who continue to languish as the left shuts things down. And why the hell are we paying taxes of any kind while the government isn’t working?
And I love the government giving us our own money back as a pittance, while at the same time they give millions to their special interests and themselves raises at our expense.
All why you have phony rotten teachers paradiong around in peurto rico on instigram.How about all the other people that go to work and don’t whine and complain like Firemen,Policemen,gasworkers,plumbers,electricians,waitresses when they can ect.This guy is a clown fire his rump.
Just what we need – another bigot! Another ahole that doesn’t do the job they are hired to do. Your JOB is to educate. there is so much division right now we sure don’t need more from someone who can’t be objective about why they get paid. Hey I got a good idea – why don’t you quit your teaching job and become a lying politician!
The only one stirring up racism here is Mike Friedberg. And calls itself a teacher?
This “Racists” comment shows just how far the brain dead mantra of White bashing has gone. This is exactly how Nazi’s vilified Jews to justify their program of genocide. This teacher would have been a “good” Nazi since she parrots the statist agenda. Now imagine this indoctrinated Fool teach young innocent children and indoctrinating them into National Socialist group think. She is a Union Thug that needs to be removed from the classroom.
I am so so sick of race being thrown into everything. Has anyone ever thought that some of us see our children suffering to work in an online setting ? Has anyone ever thought that some of our children need the teacher with them ? My child has struggled with online setting. staring at a screen all day isn’t working for her. Progression isn’t going as well as previous years. Maybe some of us are concerned about our child’s education ! Kids rarely get the virus and is there something that says black or brown kids catch the virus and white kids don’t ? People are making society more and more racist. We seem to be going backwards.
More and more people are succumbing to the Zombie plague of Leftist Racist Protectionism. Each day brings us a more unbelievable case. It’s dark spiritual forces invading the planet.
Typical Shitago bs!! The whole state is shit because of Chicago and Cook County.Needs to divide in their own state or fall into Lake Michigan. Pretty racist teacher if you ask me!! What kind of things is he filling the kids heads full of?! This race bullshit needs to move on. People are sick of it! They are hurting their own people
Just curious. Does this “teacher” (I have my doubts) think that coronavirus ONLY kills black people? If white kids are there too, does the virus say, ‘well, this kid is white so I’ll go find a black kid.” The stupidity of this persons’ opinion is mind – boggling?