Posted on 05/26/2022 4:01:45 AM PDT by MtnClimber
An open letter to Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers.
My Dearest Randi,
What is going on! It has been a year since my last missive, and I have not heard a peep from you. This is not the first time you have snubbed me, however. When I tried to say hi to you outside the Supreme Court after the Janus oral arguments in 2018, you refused to even look at me, and then turned to a newsman and launched into a kooky rant, insisting that unions “actually make communities safer and…the right-wing is threatened by that.”
Is it possible you are still ticked about our initial meeting in 2010 when Terry Moe, Rod Paige and I devoured you and two co-unionistas in a humiliating debate loss in New York City?
Worse, you’ve ignored all the heartfelt advice I have given you over the years, and I am really worried about you, girl! Most recently, you’ve had a whirlwind tour of all around silliness, half-truths, hyperbole and downright lies. Regarding the latter, you are beginning to make Bill Clinton look like Honest Abe.
In the silliness category, you recently wrote, “When crisis strikes, teachers are there.” What you should have said is, “When union bosses get teachers riled up, they strike”—as they have done most recently in Oakland, Sacramento, Minneapolis, and elsewhere. Teachers don’t strike for students, you silly goose! They walk out for higher pay, bigger budgets, less competition, etc.
Then there is the half-truth about your teaching career. In an article called “Choosing aspiration over anger,” you wrote, “I taught social studies and civics.” Not the first time you claimed to be a teacher. But when you look an inch or two below the surface, we see a teensy-weensy exaggeration. You say that you taught history at Clara Barton High School in Brooklyn from 1991 to 1997, but in 2011, EAG News obtained your personnel file via a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request. According to the New York City Board of Education, you were hired as a substitute teacher in 1991, received a provisional license in 1993, and a certificate to serve as a substitute in 1994. Additionally, “A 1997 letter indicates you didn’t submit documentation showing you’d met requirements for licensure. No record indicates you ever served as a full-time teacher or were evaluated by a principal or other school official.”
Is there anything more dangerous to our nation’s future than the teacher’s union?
“Is there anything more dangerous to our nation’s future than the teacher’s union?”
Lordy, that is gonna take some pondering.
Lots of pondering.
If we don’t have a teacher’s union who will teach our kids that women have a penis, men give birth, the BLM is peaceful, the press tells truth, Thomas Jefferson was evil, and Joe Biden knows today is Thursday?
Americans need our union teachers to indoctrinate our children. It is not happening in the home.
Randi is a lesbian married to a lesbian rabbi.
The elected politicians supported by the teachers’ unions...
Not much, one of my biggest disappointments is Betsy DeVois, basically doing nothing for reform or lobbying GOPers to lead reforms.
This.
Right there, in a nutshell, is a profound theme.
Our institutions are competing for that spot.
Let’s put a radical lesbian, with no kids, in charge of the Teachers Union!
—Karl Marx
I knew Randi in HS. She’s a lawyer. She became Secretary of the of the NYC teachers union, the UFT, in the 90s. Before the President of the teachers union left to become President of the AFT (her current position) she became a teacher for 1 semester. Doubtful she had a full teaching schedule or that she was ever observed by an administrator. Bottom line is she is a radical leftist whose political views have become even more extreme.
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