Posted on 05/23/2023 9:55:49 AM PDT by CFW
There is a reason why you know who Randi Weingarten, the leader of the second-largest teachers union in the country, is.
She’s the one who threatened to strike if schools did not close in 2020. She is the one who said that school closures were not that big of a deal because “kids are resilient." She is the one who influenced the CDC to change its COVID-19 guidelines using almost her exact language. She is the one who introduced a campaign to bring Ibram X. Kendi’s simplistic ideas on race into “every classroom.” In other words, you know who Randi Weingarten is because she is a left-wing culture warrior — and she is proud of it.
But now, Weingarten wants you to believe that she is completely opposed to “culture wars,” particularly in education. On Sunday, Weingarten published a piece on the American Federation of Teachers website titled “Culture wars harm education.”
The issue is not so much the basic statement, which seems to be self-evident. Of course, it is preferable for schools to be places of learning for the benefit of children instead of the centers of culture wars that win political points for adults. Rather, the issue is her premise that the culture war somehow just appeared in a vacuum. This assumption is reflected in her decision to focus the entire piece on Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R-FL) education policy. But to believe that the culture war over education only emerged because conservatives needed a new boogeyman would suggest a total lack of self-awareness on Weingarten’s part.
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“Randi Weingarten, the leader of the second-largest teachers union in the country”
Randi Weingarten, Satan’s leader of the second-largest teachers union in the country
There, fixed it
Out of ammunition.
That is correct.
If the Teachers’ Union was what it was supposed to be, it would have stuck to wages and workinv conditions. They made it political and cultural, and now they are a permanent enemy.
Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women!
No ratchet. Their side has made far too much “progress” in their culture war. Now is not the time to stop and pause the struggle. No ratchet — we need a pendulum, and it needs to swing very far the other way. Like, back to 1950.
No, she is just putting in place a gag order that will eliminate public knowledge of the evil deeds she is executing.
Nicely put. There really isn't much more to it than that.
How many IQ tests are people like Weingarten willing to fail before their error overwhelms the refusal to see it?
One war I’m in favor of is a war on public schools. We need competition and choice and funds that follow the student.
A tiger does not change its stripes.
Putin love peace too. Lenin and Stalin and Hitler were all for peace. Believe any of them, and you would not live long enough to regret it.
Believe Amy, and you should also believe that the democrats are giving up on wokeism, and will close the borders and will reign in spending and will give up on climate change policies and will spend heavily on fossil-fuels.
Hell no. No truce, the fight is on until she quits. Time for us to start fighting back at every level. Time for us to wear them down like they constantly try to wear us down.
When the Left finds itself losing a debate a favorite tactic is “We need to turn down the rhetoric”. Meanwhile they double down on the evil they are doing
Having been a big part in starting it, NOW she wants a “truce”. She should not get it from anyone. The whole national teachers association and national association of teachers unions need to go. They are not, if they ever were, “education” organizations and are quite openly very Leftist political organization, interjecting themselves into schools curriiculum to propogandize their politics in the classroom.
Nuts!
Succinctly said.
yes... those that are losing always call for a truce so they can rearm...
> If the Teachers’ Union was what it was supposed to be, it would have stuck to wages and working conditions. <
Yes. It’s worth noting that the state and national AFT leaders are NOT elected by the membership. They are chosen at conventions, where hand-picked delegates vote as they’re told. How’s that for democracy in action?
No one ever gets ousted. It’s designed that way. So the leadership gets arrogant, and drifts further and further left.
I was an involuntary AFT member for decades. Oh, the election stories I could tell you. Some would make Stalin blush.
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