{"id":86420,"date":"2021-03-09T10:36:33","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T15:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/?p=86420"},"modified":"2021-03-09T10:40:03","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T15:40:03","slug":"la-teachers-union-warns-members-about-sharing-vacation-photos-due-to-bad-optics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/la-teachers-union-warns-members-about-sharing-vacation-photos-due-to-bad-optics\/","title":{"rendered":"LA teachers union warns members about sharing vacation photos due to ‘bad optics’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Members of the Los Angeles teachers union were warned against sharing vacation pictures on social media due to the “bad optics” — especially given the union refuses to return to in-person instruction.<\/p>\n

In the private United Teachers of Los Angeles Facebook group “UTLA FB GROUP-Members Only,” Fox News reports<\/a> its 5,700 members were treated to the message “Friendly reminder: If you are planning any trips for Spring Break, please keep that off of Social Media. It is hard to argue that it is unsafe for in-person instruction, if parents and the public see vacation photos and international travel.”<\/p>\n

The UTLA maintains it remains unsafe to return to classrooms. Last Friday, its membership voted overwhelmingly — 91 percent — against returning to school. In order to open schools, the union is demanding all teachers be vaccinated against COVID-19 or be “provided access to full vaccination,” along with<\/a> “PPE [personal protective equipment], social distancing, ventilation and daily cleaning.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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MORE:<\/strong> Philadelphia teachers union tells members not to report to work<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Facebook group message comes as districts’ spring breaks are approaching. Two responses<\/a> to the post read “Amen” and “Or better yet, don’t travel on spring break and set an example.”<\/p>\n

In response to a query from FOX-11, UTLA said<\/a> “We have a diverse membership and they are able to post their views on personal Facebook pages and in this Facebook group – however UTLA does not monitor nor is responsible for the content. We do not want to discourage a robust dialogue for members in the public square of opinion.”<\/p>\n

Examples of “bad optics” elsewhere likely concerned the union. At the end of last year, a Chicago Teachers Union executive posted photos<\/a> of herself on vacation in Puerto Rico … and from<\/em> that vacation she advocated on social media against opening the city’s schools.<\/p>\n

A Sun-Sentinel<\/em> report in January found teachers in Florida engaged in similar antics<\/a>, including one who attended a wedding in Jamaica and another in Disney World.<\/p>\n

Further, two teachers union heads who are against opening schools were discovered<\/a> taking their own children to in-person private schools. The most recent example<\/a>,\u00a0Matt Meyer of the Berkeley teachers union, claimed his kid has no “public options” for preschool, and that “there are major differences in running a small preschool and a 10,000 student public school district.”<\/p>\n

Read the Fox News<\/a> and FOX-11 articles<\/a>.<\/p>\n

MORE:<\/strong> Teachers union upset school board member told them time to return<\/a><\/p>\n

IMAGES: pathdoc \/ Shutterstock.com; Bill Melugin \/ Twitter screencaps<\/p>\n

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