Posted on 10/02/2025 12:23:39 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Randi Weingarten has taken to wearing a paper clip on her lapel as a bizarre symbol of her crusade against “fascism,” aka Donald Trump.
The president of the American Federation of Teachers is on tour to peddle her new book, “Why Fascists Fear Teachers” — yet another example of prioritizing poisonous politics over education from this Marxist fossil. Not to mention fattening her own wallet.
The paper clip, she likes to explain to anyone who will listen — mostly on MSNBC — symbolizes a Norwegian protest against Adolf Hitler in World War II.
“Teachers in Norway when there was Nazi occupation, they started wearing paper clips . . . to bind people together as community,” Weingarten told MSNBC.
Pretty subtle analogy there — less than three weeks after Charlie Kirk was assassinated by a young leftist of the sort radicalized in Weingarten’s classrooms who engraved anti-fascist messages on his bullets.
The fact she would continue with her “fascist” book tour after such a tragedy proves that her moral compass is badly awry.
Meanwhile, not a single child was found to be proficient in math and reading in 55 public schools in Chicago, according to 2024 state tests.
New York is not quite as bad but, still, two thirds of fourth-graders are not proficient in math and reading and 12th-grade scores have dropped to levels not seen since 1992 in reading and 2005 in math.
When US Secretary of Education Linda McMahon released the latest scores for eighth-grade science and 12th-grade reading and mathematics in the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress last month, she described...
“American students are testing at historic lows across all of K-12,” she said.
“Nearly half of America’s high school seniors are testing at below basic levels in math and reading.”
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I recall seeing that she does have a “companion”. Take a wild guess about what this companion identifies as.
Because even then, teachers were dumb enough to advertise resistance to
nazis while being occupied by nazis.
Circa 1960 I attended the Theran American school. Accademically it was an excellent school. The school used the New York State standards of education which in 1960 were one of the best if not the best.
That once mighty state has fallen.
In 2017, the state of New York passed a law requiring prospective school teachers to take a literacy test to get their license, but repealed it the following year because 36 percent of whites, 54 percent of Hispanics and 59 percent of blacks failed on the first try.
I forgot to add this about my school in Tehran. Most of the kids were children of US Army personnel, embassy workers, engineers, contractors, etc. It reflected ethnicity, races, culture and regions of the USA. We had no cultural animosities, racial animosities etc. in our school. The extreme cultural and racial divides in this nation are a result of the propaganda of the left. Saul Alinsky wrote the book for cultural and racial disruption, “Rules for Radicals.”
The left read it and it is virtually the operational handbook for the democrat party.
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