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Posted on 11/07/2021 11:22:46 AM PST by lightman
American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten, whose organization advocated for mask mandates in pubic schools, apologized after she was caught with her mask down at the 2021 SOMOS conference in Puerto Rico.
Weigarten faced criticism after Adriana Aviles, a New York City parent and former City Council candidate, posted a photo of the teacher’s union boss sitting maskless on a panel with other guests, including New York City Schools Chancellor Meisha Porter.
“Gotta love when school leaders @rweingarten @DOEChancellor mingle with others in a packed room with no masks,” Aviles wrote, “yet I wonder if everyone needed proof of Vax to attend this ‘work vaca’…they sure didn’t need masks.”
In an attempt to defend her action, Weingarten wrote in response to Aviles’ post that all guests at the event must have proof of vaccination, and that she had just tested negatively for COVID-19 via rapid test. That being said, she apologized and admitted that educators should follow the same rules as students.
“You could not be #Somos or the hotel or panel without proof of vaccination. I had also just done a rapid Covid test & was negative,” she wrote. “Frankly I think you are right. If kids are wearing masks in schools to protect themselves & others educators must wear masks inside as well. I’m sorry.”
Weigarten was then called out by Daniella Jampel, who argued that the union boss should end her support for mask mandates. Jampel is a founding member of Keep NYC Schools Open, a parent-led group founded in November 2020 when the United Federation of Teachers, an AFT affiliate, pushed to shut down the city’s entire public school system because the citywide average COVID-19 positivity rate surpassed a 3 percent threshold.
“You enjoyed not having to wear a mask, right?” Jampel asked Weingarten on Twitter. “While students in the city you live in—many of whom are vaccinated—have to wear their masks for 6+ hours every day, even outdoors, while they’re in school. If you claim to be pro-student, as you claim, it’s time to take a stand.”
Weingarten responded to Jampel that she had to take her mask off because “people were having a hard time hearing us.” She also said she wears a mask “most of the time indoors.”
Another prominent SOMOS attendee who came under fire for breaking the mask rule was Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), who was spotted in a packed hotel conference room dancing to celebrate the passage of the $1.2 trillion package without his mask on, an apparent violation of Puerto Rico’s COVID-19 restrictions.
Despite a nearly 70 percent vaccination rate among the island’s adult population, Puerto Rico currently requires masks in indoor settings, regardless of an individual’s vaccination status. It also requires mask at both indoor and outdoor events with more than 50 attendees.
Rules are meant for peasants.
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Oops. 4 yr ago
Because nothing is more important than what a commie wants to talk about, even if it kills you, according to “them”.
Mask wearers sound like the adults in Peanuts movies.
They need to be charged for the damage they've done, starting with a lawsuit from the parent of a student who refused to wear a face diaper. Exhibit A would be the video of the Randi Weingarten, the head of the teachers union, not wearing a mask and Exhibit B would be her horse dung explanation as to why she didn't.
This old Bolshevik must be 100!
If she had been speaking to kids, they would not have had any problem understanding.
Even a teacher union bigwig can learn something.
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I have not enforced mask wearing in my class all year. Kids blatantly don’t wear them. We close the door, turn off the lights (I have windows which make it hard for admin to see in), and we go about our business. No one asks questions and we don’t comment on it.
What a rube she is.
Why Puerto Rico? Why not support a hotel and employees in the USA?
Everybody knows that if you say, politely, “Excuse me but I am having a hard time hearing you,” that the virus will be a gentleman and back away so as not to cause anyone any undue discomfort. Its really smart like that!
She should end the mask mandate. I am not a fan of unions, especially union leaders, but I will say this: it is entirely believable that she took it off so she could be heard better. I wear hearing aids, ever since this mask BS started and I go to the store or to the doctor’s office, not only are the cashiers, medical personnel and pharmacists wearing masks, but they also have plexiglass shields between us, as well. Before COVID, I could go anywhere and not have a problem. NOW, it IS mumble mumble mumble. What the hell good does it do for me to have hearing aids if I CANNOT HEAR ANYBODY?
Flame me if you want. I don’t care.
Notice how the arrogant one blames it on someone else.
she’ll consider the children, when the children vote in union elections...
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