Biden Throws Down The Gauntlet At Wingnut Governors

[babylonsister]

https://crooksandliars.com/2021/08/biden-teachers-salaries-covid


8/18/21 4:24pm
Biden Throws Down The Gauntlet At Wingnut Governors
The president won't allow GOP governors to threaten teachers with an unthinkable choice.
By Aliza Worthington


The Death Cult party is doing all it can to ensure the Delta variant of COVID finds our children in the states they govern. Florida and Texas lead the way, with those governors doing all they can, down to issuing threats to not pay teachers and employees in school districts with mask mandates. President Joe Biden has mentioned before that he will not allow educators to go unpaid, but in today's COVID briefing, he dug in and threw down the gauntlet to Florida's Governor Ron DeSantis, in particular.

"Intimidation and threats we are seeing across the country are WRONG. They're unacceptable," insisted Biden.

"I've said before, this isn't about politics. It's about keeping our children safe. It's about taking on the virus together. United. I've made it clear that I will stand with those who are trying to do the right thing," said Biden, before describing phone calls he'd made to school superintendents in Florida and Arizona. Each was requiring masks in their classrooms, and he thanked them. "One of them said, 'We teach science. So we follow the science.' The other said they have a guiding principle: 'Students first.' I just couldn't agree more with what they both said."

Then Biden made it clear he would not tolerate anyone trying to stand in their way.

"That's why today I'm directing the Secretary of Education, an educator himself, to take additional steps to protect our children. This includes using all of his oversight authority, and legal action, if appropriate, against governors who are trying to block and intimidate local school officials and educators," Biden warned.

He's looking at you, DeSantis, Abbott, and Ducey.

Biden reassured teachers that these psychotic threats from the GOP governors would have absolutely no financial teeth to them.

"You know, we're not going to sit by as governors try to block and intimidate educators trying to protect our children. For example, if a governor wants to cut the pay of a hard-working education leader who requires masks in the classroom, the money from the American Rescue Plan can be used to pay that person's salary, 100%," he said.

The GOP has been anti-education. anti-teacher, and frankly, anti-child for decades. It's unspeakably hard to be an educator during COVID times. To have the threat of your salary taken away because you're protecting everyone in the classroom with masks is beyond demeaning, beyond insulting, beyond professionally taxing. It's ordering teachers — especially elementary school teachers — to let their students die in return for their paycheck.

Thank god the Biden administration won't allow it to happen.

[marble falls]

1. Gee, it's good to have a real President again!

[Mr.Bill]

2. If Biden is going to use federal funds

to pay the employees of those school districts, he should also give them a hefty raise. Make it exempt from federal taxes, too. Threats involving funding can go in both directions.

[dickthegrouch]

8. Then the States will just turn salary payments over to the feds.

Gaming the system in a different way.

If we’ve learned anything from TFGs idiocy it’s that the system of checks and balances needs substantial overhaul.

Integrity is required at every level for the social compact to continue to work.

[Deuxcents]

3. Today, my local school board

Caved to bs reasons for not requiring/mandatory mask for the kids. Another school district has 4,000 kids sent home to quarantine. I don’t get it.

[NoMoreRepugs]

5. Wingnut threats possibly?

[ShazzieB]

4. I LOVE this!

"That's why today I'm directing the Secretary of Education, an educator himself, to take additional steps to protect our children. This includes using all of his oversight authority, and legal action, if appropriate, against governors who are trying to block and intimidate local school officials and educators," Biden warned.

Abbott and DeSantis: This means you! BWAHAHAHAHA!

[MustLoveBeagles]

6. K&R

[Jon King]

7. The problem is mostly with the parents.

Not sure what the Federal government can do in practical terms besides make up the pay if it is withheld. Even where ask mandates are allowed, every school district has crazed wingnut parents threatening and intimidating the teachers and administrators and other parents.

Its asking a lot of a teacher or administrator to hold up when getting threatening letters dropped into their mail boxes and getting crazed phone calls.

[Aristus]

9. "The Secretary of Education, an educator himself..."

Take that, Betsy DeVos, you lame-brained hag...