CA Teachers’ Union President Seen Dropping Daughter Off at In-person Preschool After Leading School Closures

The head of a local California teachers union president has come under fire in recent days after a video showed him taking his 2-year-old daughter off at a private school for in-person instruction—as public schools remain closed in many cities in the state. Meyer told Fox News that the video of his child, which was blurred out, was “very inappropriate” and an intrusion of her privacy. There are currently “no public options for kids her age,” he said. Jonathan Zachreson, with a Guerilla Momz-affiliated group called Reopen California Schools, told KNTV in the Bay Area that the video suggests parents are becoming increasingly frustrated with schools being locked down amid the CCP virus pandemic. “It’s really a message of hypocrisy where we see this union representative saying it’s not safe to go back, yet he feels safe enough to take his daughter to an in-person institution,” he said.Mara Kolesas, a former PTA Berkeley Council president, told KQED that the video of Meyer’s daughter went too far. “For me, you don’t need to attack people personally, you need to address it politically. When you start getting personal, you mix up dimensions, and you don’t get to discuss the real thing,” Kolesas stated. “Here, the real thing is [Meyer] put fear before science, and the right of teachers before the right of kids. That’s the issue.”...MORE