https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11188021/California-teachers-union-spied-parents-demanded-reopening-schools-pandemic.html
Research assistant for California Teachers Association was paid to ‘dig for dirt’ on parents’ groups who opposed COVID shutdowns across the state, newly released emails show
- A researcher with the California Teachers Association in April 2021 emailed members of a school parents’ group to ask for advice
- The researcher, Ann Swinburn, said she was investigating ‘the various “reopen’ groups around the state’
- At the time, California schools were closed and lessons were remote: many parents were unhappy at the arrangement and agitating for change
- Swinburn’s tweets from a now-deleted Twitter account show her suspicion that the parents calling for schools to reopen were being used by right-wing actors
- She tweeted that parents ‘are used toward a larger goal to disrupt, destabilize, and “burn down” public schools (also see reopen parents)’
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