Teachers Unions Need to Adapt, Just Like the Rest of Us

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The pandemic united us all in collective sacrifice, but teachers unions still won’t give an inch.

Published Jan. 21 2022 11:42PM EST

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When President Joe Biden in March 2021 gave his first primetime address, he astutely pointed to the one thing that has united almost all Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic: a shared sense of sacrifice.

“We all lost something—a collective suffering, a collective sacrifice, a year filled with the loss of life...

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Teachers Unions Need to Adapt, Just Like the Rest of Us

The pandemic united us all in collective sacrifice, but teachers unions still won’t give an inch.

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Ruben Navarrette Jr.