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Randi Weingarten prioritizes far-left politics — and selling books — over students’ tests scores
New York Post ^ | Oct. 1, 2025, 10:43 p.m. ET | Miranda Devine

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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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1 posted on 10/02/2025 12:23:39 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

What a train wreck American public schools are at her helm!
When the leftists flip on her, which will be very soon, its going to be everything she deserves and much more out of spite from her peers.


2 posted on 10/02/2025 12:26:36 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) "Diggin the scene with a gangster lean" (Mayfield, Curtis) )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The teachers unions have one priority, political power which can be used to garner higher teacher pay to continue their leftist indoctrination and keep the dues flowing.


3 posted on 10/02/2025 12:26:44 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

No wonder our kids are so poorly educated, if this is what we call an ‘educator’.


4 posted on 10/02/2025 12:27:19 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I don’t think it’s fair to say she does not care about student test scores. She has proven she does care… she wants them to be as low as possible. She wants an electorate dumb enough to vote socialist and she is doing her best to create future stupid voters.


5 posted on 10/02/2025 12:27:45 PM PDT by Ditto
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To: blackdog
When the leftists flip on her, which will be very soon, its going to be everything she deserves and much more out of spite from her peers.

She'll laugh all the way to the bank.

6 posted on 10/02/2025 12:27:47 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

MONEY, MONEY, MONEY, MONEY..............MONEY!............

It’s what they do...............


7 posted on 10/02/2025 12:29:14 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: blackdog

Exactly.


8 posted on 10/02/2025 12:31:13 PM PDT by rrrod (6)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Randi Weingarten is a disgrace. That almost goes without saying.

No teacher has ever voted for Weingarten to be the president of her union. All the top AFT officials are chosen at closed conventions by shadowy delegates.

Just the way it was done in Stalin’s USSR.


9 posted on 10/02/2025 12:32:46 PM PDT by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

SHE IS SERIOUSLY DISTURBED, IMO


10 posted on 10/02/2025 12:38:30 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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Related...

DataRepublican (small r)
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Wow. Incredible. First, you think it’s a flex to claim Weingarten makes only $470,000 instead of $600,000.

Second, as @DeAngelisCorey points out, her total compensation is in fact over $600,000 once you include the additional income.

So no, you’re not helping your case by saying Randi racked up $44,000 in “other” expenses on top of her salary. And do AFT members realize that @AFTunion also covers first-class travel, companion travel, and personal housing allowances for its executives?

10:54 PM · Sep 30, 2025 58.3K Views

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Pic of the paperwork at the link.


11 posted on 10/02/2025 12:39:44 PM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Stoopid students make great slaves.


12 posted on 10/02/2025 12:43:37 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

She is after all the head of the teachers union, by their own definition they dont care about students.
Reason number one why the teachers union should be abolished!!!


13 posted on 10/02/2025 12:50:19 PM PDT by perfect stranger
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I wonder how many people on Twitter/X that union has gotten banned...

Just curious.


14 posted on 10/02/2025 12:52:59 PM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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15 posted on 10/02/2025 12:58:28 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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> And do AFT members realize that @AFTunion also covers first-class travel, companion travel, and personal housing allowances for its executives? <

It wouldn’t matter one bit if they did. Please see my post #9.

Oh, and here’s another trick many of these top AFT officials pull. It’s an overtime scam. They “work from home”, then put in for overtime.

George Carlin has a message for the average union member:


16 posted on 10/02/2025 1:04:31 PM PDT by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

We don’t fear teachers, we fear for our children because of what our Communist teachers are teaching them.


17 posted on 10/02/2025 1:17:58 PM PDT by Ronald77 ( )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I hope Trump does something about this. More than anything, more than the media, education is the biggest threat to this country. Why? Because every year our universities, High schools are graduating kids who have been indoctrinated for years in leftist insanity and they end up in every job you can imagine, politics, justice, the military, education, the FBI, the CIA, medicine, healthcare, and they bring with them their insane leftist ideology.


18 posted on 10/02/2025 1:27:00 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The Left tries to take over every institution, including teachers’ unions.


19 posted on 10/02/2025 2:06:19 PM PDT by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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The Left tries to take over every institution, including teachers’ unions.

Almost as if it were a plan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_march_through_the_institutions

20 posted on 10/02/2025 2:10:21 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Je suis Charlie Kirk.)
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