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    The Virtual Education Shock Doctrine

    In California, the nation’s most populous state, 90% of students started the school year entirely online. When schools closed in March, 50% of low-income California students lacked the necessary technology to access distance learning. Broader tech distribution was available for the 2020-21 school year thanks to donations from companies like HP, Lenovo, Amazon, Apple, T-Mobile, Microsoft, and Google. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey even personally donated $10 million to the city of Oakland’s tech initiative. With chromebooks and wifi hotspots now available for every student, California legislators and corporations congratulated themselves on closing the “digital divide.”

    Despite their improved tech access, many students have more pressing material needs. Over 260,000 California students experience homelessness every year, and over 20% of California children live below the poverty line. The tech industry has not made massive donations to medical and therapy services, which low-income students often receive through community schools. Likewise, there is no private backing for the state’s free grab-and-go meals program.

    Online schooling will generate a treasure trove of data tech firms can buy and sell. Free meals will not. Silicon Valley boasts a yearly output of $275 billion and has a GDP similar to that of Qatar. Yet California, the world’s fifth largest economy, is currently withholding $11 billion from schools. Districts have been given IOUs for state funding and will not be reimbursed until next year. In contrast, California billionaires increased their net worth by over 25.5% ($175 billion) in the first three months of the pandemic.

    Students throughout California are now stuck at home in hot, crowded rooms that occasionally fill with wildfire smoke. 19% of these students are English language learners and almost 13% of them have disabilities. Every day on Zoom they fall more and more behind both academically and socially. In Los Angeles Unified, the state’s largest district, students are receiving 90-170 minutes of daily live instruction (depending on their age), after which they are expected to do independent work. Compared to the traditional six- or seven-hour school day, online education is laughably inadequate.

    In real time, teachers and families are watching important developmental windows close for vulnerable children. Meanwhile the California Democratic Party and its affiliates tout virtual schooling as a solution for mitigating COVID-19 transmission. This policy is the result of an alignment between the Democratic Party, corporate power, and a bureaucratic teachers’ union. The purpose of their alignment is to rationalize austerity and boost commercial profits. Distance learning is a sleight of hand. Framed as a panacea, online education is actually the vehicle for a long-desired economic restructuring.

    School Closures: An Unscientific and Regressive Policy

    California’s introduction of online schooling was driven by financial concerns, not medical or moral ones. Reopening safely would have required physical distancing plans, distribution of face shields or masks, sanitizing supplies, systems for daily health screenings, regular testing, widespread use of outdoor spaces, alternative schedules, smaller class sizes, and a massive hiring initiative. The primary reason these proposals were shot down was not rising COVID-19 cases as the governor, Gavin Newsom, asserted. California cases, hospitalizations, and deaths have been declining since August 1, but since then Newsom has only made reopening guidelines stricter.

    The full prohibition on in-person learning directly contradicts the advice of medical and scientific experts. In June the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) issued recommendations for school re-openings, stating, “the AAP strongly advocates that all policy considerations for the coming school year should start with a goal of having students physically present in school.” The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine issued similar guidance. Schools, the authors argue, provide essential services to students and families.

    Only after large school districts decided to stay closed did the AAP revise its original guidance to fit a perceived political consensus. Many clinical studies and reviews supported their original conclusion, demonstrating that children are less likely to transmit COVID-19 than adults, and school closures are an ineffective method of disease control. Not only will these irrational closures deepen class disparities, the policy has also overruled some children’s civil right to public education—a right that became universal in federal law less than 50 years ago.

    It was not until 1975 that people with disabilities won a “Free and Appropriate Public Education” through the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Before IDEA people with intellectual disabilities were often put in underfunded and abusive state schools, such as the infamous Willowbrook state school in Staten Island. Similarly, discrimination against English language learners was allowed until the 1974 passage of the Equal Education Opportunity Act.

    Dismantling these gains is apparently of no concern to the California Democrats and the California Teachers Association (CTA), the state teachers union. Virtual learning effectively limits educational access for high-need populations. Yet as public resources are funneled into online learning platforms, the CTA regularly claims to be fighting back against billionaires and politicians. In reality, the teachers union is acting as an astroturfing and financing arm of the tech industry and the Democratic Party. There is no real conflict between these entities because their interests are identical.

    The Teachers Union as Controlled Opposition

    The wave of California teachers’ strikes in the 2018-19 school year may have left observers with the impression that the CTA is a robust union with a strong organizing focus. While recent changes in local and statewide leadership have sparked some collective actions, the union largely operates as a bureaucratic funding vehicle and promotion wing for the Democratic Party.

    The median teacher salary in California is $65,252. On average, California teachers pay $1,072 in dues, and the majority of dues do not go to local organizations—they go to the CTA. In 2018 at least twelve CTA officers and directors made six-figure salaries. The CTA president took home about $340,000, and the union’s Associate Executive Director over $1 million. It is extremely difficult for teachers to find out how much of their dues money goes to political activities, let alone which of these activities actually help secure better working conditions and wages for teachers.

    However, some information is available. California teachers’ dues directly contribute to the CTA’s PAC. Although teachers can opt out from donating to the PAC, this option is only given when they sign the form to join the union. While there are limits to the CTA’s donations to individual candidates through its PAC, the CTA can donate greater amounts through independent expenditure committees. For example, the CTA’s PAC donated only $29,000 to Newsom’s election campaign in 2018, but its independent expenditure committee gave $1 million to “Education Organizations for Gavin Newsom for Governor 2018.”

    The National Education Association, which the CTA is a part of, is likewise opaque about how much dues money is used for political activities and what those activities are. In 2018 the NEA contributed about $5.4 million to candidates and political campaigns and spent close to $2.9 million on lobbying. After endorsing Joe Biden in March, the NEA now invites teachers to become “Educators for Joe” through its website.

    The relationship between the union and the California Democratic Party extends to the CTA’s organizing work for ballot initiatives. Most recently, local California unions have asked their members to collect signatures and join rallies for Prop 15, the Students and Communities First Initiative. The slogan for Prop 15 is “Tax the Rich,” but the tax will not be on wealthy individuals, or directly on the revenue of California’s largest industries (tech, agriculture, tourism, and entertainment). The tax will instead be on business properties exceeding $3 million in value. The initiative is backed by national politicians like Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg, and Michael Bloomberg. The Chan Zuckerberg foundation has contributed over $6.3 million to support Prop 15.

    Union members should be concerned about the fact that, according to the CTA’s own Prop 15 calculator, the plan will fund privately-operated charter schools in addition to public schools. Charter schools are property leasing schemes that exploit low-income communities for the benefit of investors. In using public school teachers to organize for this funding, the CTA has promoted an initiative that will allow investment capital to benefit from industrial property taxes, an expense that some worry will fall on small businesses in the form of increased rents. Given the level of mismanagement, cronyism, and anti-teacher animus plaguing the administrations of many California school districts, it is also worth wondering if Prop 15 money will go where it is truly needed (staffing), or whether it will be wasted on more tech products.

    Ultimately, there is no real tension between the political project of the teachers union and that of the Democratic Party. Both are working toward the same outcomes. In the case of COVID-19, the desired outcome is the purchase of hardware, software, and online learning subscriptions on an enormous scale. This ploy relies on a politics of anti-solidarity in which teachers stay home on computers while risk is pushed onto lower-paid staff or contractors who lack union protection.

    Woke Justifications for Academic Decline

    While low-income students and families struggle to adapt, many educators are willing to push rhetoric that presents virtual learning as liberation. In some cities, local union leaders, district administrators, and other organizations have entered into an endless competition to prove who is more woke and more pro-lockdown. Racialized social justice politics have created distractions that serve to rationalize and excuse the absence of public health infrastructure and other services.

    In Oakland, for example, ongoing conflicts between professionals have done little to help communities in need, and disguise a de facto consensus around school closures. California’s online learning mandate was largely decided at the state level by the governor’s office. This did not stop the Oakland teachers’ union from holding a pro-closure demonstration in front of the Oakland schools superintendent’s home. The Oakland NAACP wrote a letter condemning the action for targeting the superintendent, who is a Black woman. The East Bay DSA responded in support of the union, citing the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on Black communities.

    Around the same time, elementary school principals in Oakland wrote a letter asking middle class parents to refrain from forming independently organized educational “pandemic pods,” arguing that this would be “exacerbating educational inequities.” Meanwhile, the Oakland teachers’ union was spending valuable time in reopening negotiations demanding a Black Reparations Fund. The union proposed that Local Control Funding Formula money for foster youth, English language learners, and low-income students be redirected to new “Black Sanctuary District” programs.

    The woke posturing in Oakland demonstrates a pattern of California educators and other professionals wielding their cultural power to uphold tech profits while taking for granted the profound economic inequalities caused by the COVID-19 lockdown. The major stakeholders, while supposedly at odds, all supported government frugality as a science-based safety measure. With online learning now fully in place, social justice narratives contend that staring at screens is emancipation.

    Various tech initiatives like the Modern Classrooms Project allege that online learning is progressive because it allows for self-pacing. The concept of virtual self-pacing is tied to declarations that some students are “thriving” through online education. School, proponents of distance learning claim, is perhaps too long, too demanding; the standards and expectations may be too high. Distance learning, they argue, allows kids to organize their own time, regardless of whether it is developmentally appropriate or not.

    Similarly, education theories such as “Abolitionist Teaching” posit that white supremacy creates trauma for Black students at school. Therefore, the fundamental structures of school must be rethought. Intellectuals and writers who characterize school as inherently racist are assisting in a union-busting project. Abolitionist theorists even call on teachers’ unions themselves to demand curriculum and personnel changes, and scheduling that adheres to anti-racist thought.

    The digitization of schools is an initial step toward digitization of society as a whole. Just as the school bell schedule was designed around the factory model, so the current model of virtual learning is training affluent students for a life of self-directed work at home. It is training low-income students for a life of no work at all.

    Rejecting a Lockdown Future

    Although many other states have reopened schools or have opted for a hybrid model, the trends in California offer a stark warning of what is to come if the tech economy achieves national dominance. During the wildfire crisis, some claimed that students were lucky to have distance learning already set up, no doubt laying the groundwork for distance learning as a new norm that allows us to hop from disaster to disaster while staying connected virtually. When online curricula are fully built and courses can run themselves there will be no need for teachers’ labor. California teachers have become the Uber drivers of education: providing a temporary service until the technology that can replace them is ready for the market.

    Given this threat to the teaching profession, the CTA and local unions must divest from corporate interests that aim to dismantle labor. Bribing politicians can only get educators so far. Teachers can no longer give in to the mafia-style antics of the Democratic Party if they want to survive. Union dues should not be spent on Newsom’s reelection campaign, but on a state-wide strike fund. Charter school champions benefit when public schools lose enrollment because of systematic mismanagement. They will also benefit when the union starts hemorrhaging membership due to its corruption and negligence.

    Since March the American left has framed neoliberal lockdown policies as the only morally viable option for dealing with COVID-19. In doing so, they have fetishized teachers’ unions and used their labor negotiations as the prime example of worker support for lockdown. Now that the damage has been done and soaring unemployment has disempowered all workers, the left may begin to roll back its discredited justifications for lockdown. No matter what challenges arise, social services and public institutions should be non-negotiable for any socialist, populist, or pro-worker politics.

    Schools are necessary for communal and individual well-being—they are just as essential as health care. In their education children do not only learn content; they also learn by example and through experience. It is our collective task to consider what message continued policies of school closure and austerity send to the younger generation. They will not forget it if we fail to develop alternatives.
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    This article discusses how California's now over a year of distance learning policies serve less the interests of students but of the tech industry's economic interests and profits and ultimately like charter schools it is at the expense of students. More over an ongoing problem of meeting IEP and 504 testing across the state of California due to lockdowns as many tests cannot be done except in person. It also seems like distance learning regimes will just be the thin tip of the blade for dramatic cuts and gutting, I.E. its austerity by other means. All to joyous applause from Liberals.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Theodarzna View Post
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    This article discusses how California's now over a year of distance learning policies serve less the interests of students but of the tech industry's economic interests and profits and ultimately like charter schools it is at the expense of students. More over an ongoing problem of meeting IEP and 504 testing across the state of California due to lockdowns as many tests cannot be done except in person. It also seems like distance learning regimes will just be the thin tip of the blade for dramatic cuts and gutting, I.E. its austerity by other means. All to joyous applause from Liberals.
    Now covid a re-education conspiracy?

    Distance learning is a sleight of hand. Framed as a panacea, online education is actually the vehicle for a long-desired economic restructuring.
    Can I please got to this place where covid doesn’t exist...

    Edit: lol the two top stories on this site are “Don’t vote” and an article explaining who the real reactionary are... Here is a hint... claiming measures to circumvent covid impact on education, is an undercover take over by big tech, is reactionary nonsense.
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    Haven't seen a theo copy and paste shitpost in a while, and she doesn't disappoint. Made even more ridiculous as the country has had day after day of record new cases of covid, and an article complaining about somewhere between technology changes society and woke/liberal conspiracy or some nonsense

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stormspellz View Post
    Haven't seen a theo copy and paste shitpost in a while, and she doesn't disappoint. Made even more ridiculous as the country has had day after day of record new cases of covid, and an article complaining about somewhere between technology changes society and woke/liberal conspiracy or some nonsense
    Let’s get some technocrats in here... this fear of technology is fun...

    It’s a conspiracy by Newsom!!! It’s not covid... wtf?

    The primary reason these proposals were shot down was not rising COVID-19 cases as the governor, Gavin Newsom, asserted. California cases, hospitalizations, and deaths have been declining since August 1, but since then Newsom has only made reopening guidelines stricter.
    Covid is real... it’s not rounding the corner... It’s not going to disappear on November 4th... There are 200000 dead Americans and rising, while you look for a conspiracy with a microscope.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Felya View Post
    Let’s get some technocrats in here... this fear of technology is fun...
    automobiles?!!? won't someone think of the horse traders?

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    Poorly timed bullshit article if it wants to make "rounding the corner" claims.
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    Quote Originally Posted by draynay View Post
    Poorly timed bullshit article if it wants to make "rounding the corner" claims.
    October 4th... it’s more of that we have this thing hindsight and can see that Newsom was right to shot down. We are hitting new records daily at this point... it’s almost a month later, OP should know better.

    Just to further highlight the nonsense... The case toll today, was higher than when this article was written... so have pretty much the last 10 days... as evil scientist said it would...
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    This is simply the reality on the ground. NY is doing something similar, and there's no spooky conspiracy about lining tech billionaire's pockets, since they don't live in NY.

    We've seen massive spikes wherever schools open. And your article misrepresents the AAP's conclusions, which were first 1) politically pushed by the Trump Administration, and then 2) amended when state governments objected about the partisan agenda being pushed by the Trump Administration.

    My sister is an administrator for KIPP, a charter school system in the SF/Oakland area. She's had the hardest 10 work months of her life, and yes, that includes getting kids fed, getting kids the tech they need to be online, including setting up mobile hotspots.

    I'm surprised you'd quote such a dumb article by a non-entity of a journalistic website which amounts to little more than a blog.

    Edit: For some reason I thought @Milchshake posted this article instead of Theo. Now I'm not surprised at all.

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    My brother is currently at a private high school in Orange County. He goes to class 4 days a week for a few hours in the afternoon during his turn. Apparently there are only 6 students per classroom at a time right now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by eschatological View Post
    I'm surprised you'd quote such a dumb article by a non-entity of a journalistic website which amounts to little more than a blog.
    5 days from the election, posting a story about a democrat conspiracy to fund the elite tech, at the expense of the children? Without being from an obvious right leaning source like Fox? I’m surprised we don’t see more shit like this... I guess mods shut that Hunter and Covid conspiracy posts down fast... kudos...
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    Wait so you're saying that this unexpected, temporary, MASSIVE change to how education works in the state has numerous flaws? That making a drastic change in an effort to save thousands of lives has resulted in challenges and obstacles for many people? It's almost like we live in a world where when you make a big change, it takes time for humans and their systems to adapt to it. Shocking. Absolutely shocking.

    I also can't believe that the people who provide the technology which makes this new system work would benefit from increased usage of their products. How unfair! They should suffer for... their... usefulness?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zaktar View Post
    Wait so you're saying that this unexpected, temporary, MASSIVE change to how education works in the state has numerous flaws? That making a drastic change in an effort to save thousands of lives has resulted in challenges and obstacles for many people? It's almost like we live in a world where when you make a big change, it takes time for humans and their systems to adapt to it. Shocking. Absolutely shocking.

    I also can't believe that the people who provide the technology which makes this new system work would benefit from increased usage of their products. How unfair! They should suffer for... their... usefulness?
    They should sell it at a fair price, not give it as charity... what is this, China? If the schools can’t afford it and federal government refuses to assist... SOL children...

    Edit: Sorry, SOL is pre covid talk... now it’s... die faster... don’t get tested... /facepalm
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    Quote Originally Posted by Felya View Post
    They should sell it at a fair price, not give it as charity... what is this, China? If the schools can’t afford it and federal government refuses to assist... SOL children...
    I know your joking but damn there really is people like that.

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    This is an absurd conspiracy theory. Blaming tech companies for donating supplies, but somehow also not solving fucking poverty.

    You could have saved us all some time, and just called them literal crack dealers.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TigTone View Post
    I know your joking but damn there really is people like that.
    It’s why the edit includes /facepalm... I realized that...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Machismo View Post
    This is an absurd conspiracy theory. Blaming tech companies for donating supplies, but somehow also not solving fucking poverty.

    You could have saved us all some time, and just called them literal crack dealers.
    I don’t know... I figured it out in less than 3 min... /flex
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    Quote Originally Posted by Felya View Post
    They should sell it at a fair price, not give it as charity... what is this, China? If the schools can’t afford it and federal government refuses to assist... SOL children...

    Edit: Sorry, SOL is pre covid talk... now it’s... die faster... don’t get tested... /facepalm
    If we would all just get on board with sacrificing a few million people to Nurgle this would all go much more smoothly. Oops I'm reading between the lines again sorry, what I meant to say was that children are our prayers and we're leaving them future, er thoughts and behind? Wait I think something's wrong with my Trump-brand Note Cards (tm).
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    Quote Originally Posted by eschatological View Post
    Edit: For some reason I thought @Milchshake posted this article instead of Theo. Now I'm not surprised at all.
    How many call outs will it take for you to admit that I'm living rent free in your head? I hope your Morales/Random DSA guy fandom is worth it. Thanks in advance.

    My schtick is calling out cosplaying poseurs on the left. Which really triggers certain posters... I've also pointed out previously that the Bellows.org is some horseshoe'd-Strasserist rag, cosplaying as some marxist opinion thinkers.


    I've also pointed that some of the posters here posturing as teachers here, are more wound up about airing their grievances with the local teacher's unions. Or contempt for having to teach the children of strangers. It's like when MRA activist would sockpuppet as women.
    I mean, virtually all education unions are for distance learning, because of the whole public health threat. Some teachers are dying from exposure. Poor kids are suffering long-term disabilities after being exposed.

    If anything, the governors that prioritized opening bars and other needless bullshit deserve more blame. These event just keep the infection waves coming.
    Until we contain these waves, or vaccinate our children. In-person school will just not be safe.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Milchshake View Post
    How many call outs will it take for you to admit that I'm living rent free in your head? I hope your Morales/Random DSA guy fandom is worth it. Thanks in advance.

    My schtick is calling out cosplaying poseurs on the left. Which really triggers certain posters... I've also pointed out previously that the Bellows.org is some horseshoe'd-Strasserist rag, cosplaying as some marxist opinion thinkers.
    I'm sorry, but you don't. You and I agree on almost every issue: that you don't agree with me on the insidious nature of American meddling in Latin America, and how a coup was a coup, and not some beloved uprising against the evil socialists is perhaps the only thing we disagree with. Just because I agree with Bernie on that one issue doesn't mean I supported him in the primary, nor does it make me a Red Rose leftist. You are living with some grand delusions here, friend.

    Oh, and I thought it was you because you're the only one (besides Theo) who posts random, niche articles about subjects way on the fringe of every day political discussion, and Theo had been quiet for a long time. It was an edit that happened almost immediately once I scrolled back up and looked at the OP. CF your thread FROM TODAY about the possibilities of a General Strike.

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    Milchsake thread titles are pretty straightforward, not filled with buzzword garbage. Theo threads are real easy to spot.
    /s

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    Any article loses all credibility the moment it derides something as "unscientific" when most if not all of the relevant scientists specialized in the field say otherwise.

    Stopped reading the moment I read that, since the author is clearly lying.

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