The teachers unions are trying to shut down schools again. Will Democrats finally stand up to them?

Citing the new wave of omicron cases, which pose just as little, if not even less, risk to children as the other strains of COVID, teachers unions in several major cities are demanding that school officials shut down the classrooms once again and return to remote learning. The Chicago Teachers Union, an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers, is preparing to lead a walk-out on Wednesday so that school districts have no choice but to close their doors. In New York City, the United Federation of Teachers is lobbying Mayor Eric Adams to return to remote learning for at least a week. And in Massachusetts, the state’s American Federation of Teachers union is claiming teachers should not have to return to in-person work “in the midst of a runaway public health crisis.”