Generation Z — already saddled with enormous national debt —should not have their education put at risk due to appease the teachers' unions, Sky News host Rita Panahi says.
Generation Z - already saddled with enormous national debt - should not have their education put at risk due to appease the teachers' unions, Sky News host Rita Panahi says. State governments have come under increasing pressure in recent weeks to reopen schools to students as Australia begins to turn the coronavirus corner. However, some states have held firm against medical advice, a decision Ms Panahi branded “unmitigated idiocy”.
"We are told to listen to the science but then we have state governments completely disregarding the science and the advice of the country's foremost medical experts in order to appease teachers unions,” she said. "We are saddling generation Z with enormous national debt, the least we can do is to ensure that they are not further disadvantaged with their schooling.
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