Amy Jacobson is a concerned Chicago-area parent who went on "Fox And Friends" on Monday and said that kids not being allowed to return to school are suffering from "mental abuse."
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Jacobson said that the Chicago Teachers Union's refusal to work with the rest of society was them thinking of "their needs and not our children's needs."
"We have been on pins and needles all weekend wondering what is going on," continued Jacobson during the course of the TV interview.
"It's hard because every day you have to check in with your children to make sure that they’re okay. We're coming up on a year that some kids have had to sleep in their bedroom and then be in Zoom classroom for eight hours and they don't socialize."
"There’s no dances, there’s no sports. It has been horrible. We’ve had 40 suicides that I know of up in our area … and we’ve only had eight kids die from COVID and I'm sorry that those eight kids died, but we are killing our children mentally."
Jacobson's comments come while Chicago's school system is facing off against the teachers' union in a so-far unsuccessful attempt to bring in-person learning back to the city.
According to Fox News, on Sunday night, Lori Lightfoot, Chicago's mayor, ordered all teachers with classes up to the eighth grade to go back to the classroom:
"All teachers, pre-K through eight and cluster teachers must report. If you don't have an approved accommodation, we expect to see you back in class. Those who do not report to work…we will have to take action. Let's avoid that."
There was a meeting planned between the Chicago Mayor's Office and the Teachers' Union on Sunday, but union representatives failed to appear.
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