Saturday, June 6, 2020

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The Impact of the COVID-19 Recession on Teaching Positions

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." – George Santayana
The current economic downturn will put a large number of public school teachers’ jobs at risk. How do I know this? Because it happened to us before, just 12 years ago. Between 2008 and 2010, during the Great Recession, our country lost more than 120,000 teaching positions (see figure below).
Yes, the boldface is mine.  This is the same crap we had to deal with in the last recession and it took five years for Jerry Brown to get the system back up and almost running.  This is what progressive unions are worried about.

Huffington Post, on the other had is completely clueless with this:

LABOR HAS A PROBLEM: POLICE UNIONS
Law enforcement unions make up a small slice of the AFL-CIO, but progressive members are increasingly uncomfortable associating with them.
And police unions are the farthest thing from the minds of teachers unions. They are worried shitless about when and if they will get their jobs back.  And many of them will be unemployed for seven years, and there are not too many blacks at the end of the line who care.

The bold face is the difference between a flat earther and sound analysis the meets the Lucas criteria. Otherwise known as a clue which Huff Post can never understand. I might add, teachers are quite worried about trying to get black students calmed down once this is over.

Another note on the bold face.  UC Berkeley will not remember the past, they are incapable of looking at the longer trends. Which is why they have been absolutely useless in understanding the boom/bust cycle of California. The economics department at Berkeley needs to be shut down as a waste of money.

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