Fox guest: Chicago teachers too happy in their “second homes” in Florida and California to teach in-person
Fox credited Amy Jacobson as “a Chicago parent and a volleyball coach,” but she's also a right-wing radio host
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Citation From the February 1, 2021, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends
AINSLEY EARHARDT (CO-HOST): What do you think the real reason is, if they keep changing their argument? Why don't they want to go back?
AMY JACOBSON (RADIO HOST, CHICAGO'S MORNING ANSWER): Well I think a lot of people enjoy working from their homes in Florida, and their homes in California, their second homes. And I talked to one teacher at Lane Tech who said, "Oh I love staying at home because then I can go work out, I don't have to shower, and I can just go straight to the Zoom classroom." So this has never been about the kids, Ainsley, this has always been about their needs and not our children's needs.
EARHARDT: Whoa.
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JACOBSON: High schoolers aren't even part of the conversation. And there's 103,000 Chicago high schoolers roaming the streets. Because can you click-in in the morning, and then you can go do whatever you want and click-in. And our homicide rate, our robberies have been up so much. Carjackings are up 172%, and guess who's doing most of the carjackings? 15 and 16-year-olds. Even one as young as 12. Held a gun to a woman's head to steal a car, and they don't think that that's a problem? It would be an easy solution to the high crime rate is to get our high schoolers back into school.