Posted on 07/11/2021 9:14:29 AM PDT by Rummyfan
It’s being kind to call the last year and a quarter of public school – basically everything since March of 2020 – a disaster. Randi Weingarten, head of the American Federation of Teachers, is determined to forget everything about it.
Much like the kids who forget everything they’ve ever learned over summer break – if they learned it at all in this last year – Randi Weingarten has blanked about how her teachers’ union helped keep schools closed, then bent the ear of the CDC to push schools into either staying closed or meeting extraordinarily high distancing and masking requirements that made zero sense (considering teachers were getting vaccinated and kids are, thankfully, not greatly sickened by COVID-19), and was recently making noise about how worried she is about the “Delta” variant. Now, Randi Weingarten would like you to believe that she has never stood in the way of schools reopening, and she wants everyone back in the schools this fall.
After all, if kids are back in schools, and not at home with parents listening in, then there will be less questions about the teaching of Critical Race Theory – which is not at all happening but should totally happen, according to the teachers’ unions – right? That’s a post for a different day.
But notice how, even while Weingarten publicly frets over COVID, she is pushing for a “public school renaissance.” Why, what could have happened in the last 15 months that would cause the public schools to suddenly need a “renaissance,” hmmm? Children have literally disappeared out of the school system, parents are pulling their kids out of public schools, and other frustrated parents are attempting change by getting involved and running for the school board (only to be accused of being some larger “QAnon” conspiracy because whoever heard of PARENTS GETTING INVOLVED WITH SCHOOLS, really?),
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It’s being kind to call the last year and a quarter of public school — basically everything since March of 2020 — a disaster. Randi Weingarten, head of the American Federation of Teachers, is determined to forget everything about it. …Hmm. That sounds familiar.
“The truth, please, Winston. Your truth. Tell me what you think you remember.”Weingarten would of course be engaging in doublethink. We really ought not be surprised.
“I remember that until only a week before I was arrested, we were not at war with Eastasia at all. We were in alliance with them. The war was against Eurasia. That had lasted for four years. Before that—”
O’Brien stopped him with a movement of the hand.
“Another example,” he said. “Some years ago you had a very serious delusion indeed. You believed that three men, three one-time Party members named Jones, Aaronson, and Rutherford—men who were executed for treachery and sabotage after making the fullest possible confession—were not guilty of the crimes they were charged with. You believed that you had seen unmistakable documentary evidence proving that their confessions were false. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this.”
An oblong slip of newspaper had appeared between O’Brien’s fingers. For perhaps five seconds, it was within the angle of Winston’s vision. It was a photograph, and there was no question of its identity. It was the photograph. It was another copy of the photograph of Jones, Aaronson, and Rutherford at the party function in New York, which he had chanced upon eleven years ago and promptly destroyed. For only an instant it was before his eyes, then it was out of sight again. But he had seen it; unquestionably he had seen it! He made a desperate, agonizing effort to wrench the top half of his body free. It was impossible to move so much as a centimeter in any direction. For the moment he had even forgotten the dial. All he wanted was to hold the photograph in his fingers again, or at least to see it.
“It exists!” he cried.
“No,” said O’Brien.
He stepped across the room. There was a memory hole in the opposite wall. O’Brien lifted the grating. Unseen, the frail slip of paper was whirling away on the current of warm air; it was vanishing in a flash of flame. O’Brien turned away from the wall.
“Ashes,” he said. “Not even identifiable ashes. Dust. It does not exist. It never existed.”
“But it did exist! It does exist! It exists in memory. I remember it. You remember it.”
“I do not remember it,” said O’Brien.
Winston’s heart sank. That was doublethink. He had a feeling of deadly helplessness. …
No reason for teachers to be unionized and government sanctioned and run by this devil b*tch along with the worthless DOE.
Randi Weingarten has Democrat Politicians on their knees and she knows it. Not one Dem will say anything against the teachers union. The Union will decide who goes back to school, when and what will be taught.
It’s the other way around. She’s their servant.
We tried to get our worthless Congressman to criticize the teachers union on not returning to school - he was paralyzed with fear.
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