Posted on 01/29/2024 5:36:44 AM PST by MtnClimber
Randi Weingarten is really ramping up the rhetoric against parents in the fight for school choice.
She would, wouldn’t she? Her position as a union boss -- president of the American Federation of Teachers -- has been credited with accelerating the abysmal decline in education for children nationwide.
Parents, for years, have been on to her union tactics, and that of her colleagues. They can hardly take seriously Ms. Weingarten’s latest meltdown asserting that parents “undermine democracy,” in their efforts to remove their children from failing schools.
Who can blame Weingarten’s sense of panic? Those undermining parents are making tremendous progress in their determination to seek out better education options for their children. Groups such as the pointedly named Parents with Pitchforks have galvanized their efforts, turning to conservative legislators, and have successfully expanded school-option legislation in 20 states in 2023.
This is very bad news for Weingarten and her 1.72 million union members. Their behemoth numbers would suggest they are bulletproof when it comes to job security -- if not for those loudmouthed parents.
The parents have become more of a thorn in the side of the teachers’ unions: They are now filing lawsuits in attempts to uncover the extent unions will go to protect unprofessional or incompetent teachers. Many of the sordid facts came out in a lawsuit filed by parents of minority students who claimed the unions were responsible for their children’s appalling education in California.
Former LA Unified School District superintendent John Deasy testified as a whistleblower confirming the parents’ worst suspicions. He alleged, in his testimony “that it can take 10 years and $250,000 to $450,000 to fire a lousy teacher,” according to a Wall Street Journal article.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
How do we get our schools back?
First step is to get rid of teachers unions. Second step is for parents to stop sending their kids to public schools.
Get rid of the Dept of Ed.
“Teachers Union Dismisses Angry Parents at its Peril”
As long as there are FReepers who rationalize sending their kids to public school, the Teachers’ Union has NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT.
Personal Order of Protection (POP) served to teachers who ‘sexually groom’ on behalf of your children.
Talk to your local sheriff.
“First step is to get rid of teachers unions. Second step is for parents to stop sending their kids to public schools.”
And for teachers who are Christians to stop working for the public schools. It isn’t just one or two teachers. It is the pedagogy and educational philosophy behind the pedagogy that is evil.
I agree with that. There’s no such thing as a “”good” school district anywhere.
Sounds like the American Federation of Teachers were trained by the CCP and your child is ours to train.
“How do we get our schools back?”
By taking them back one School Board election at a time.
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The public school paradigm was meant to do exactly what it is doing. Like nuclear war, the winning move is to not play.
YES!
If you don’t actively support private schools and the homeschool movement then you aren’t serious about this problem. The public schools are government controlled and are beyond redemption under current circumstances. The union is only the witless tool of the ruling cabal.
Double Bag Barf WARNING!
Randi Weingarten Only Taught for 3 Years. She’s Getting 15 Years of Public Pension Anyway. (May 23, 2023)
https://reason.com/2023/05/23/randi-weingarten-only-taught-for-3-years-shes-getting-15-years-of-public-pension-anyway/
AFT head Randi Weingarten makes over $560,000 per year, 9 times average teacher salary, records show (Jul 9, 2021)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aft-president-randi-weingarten-salary
Rabbi and labor leader get married (Mar 27, 2018)
Teachers’ union leader Randi Weingarten and rabbi at New York’s largest LGBT-friendly synagogue tie the knot
https://www.timesofisrael.com/rabbi-and-labor-leader-get-married/
Randi Weingarten - House
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/VC/VC00/20230426/115797/HHRG-118-VC00-Bio-WeingartenR-20230426.pdf
And we need an economy where one parent can afford to stay home and less focus on college (more focus on apprenticeship and trades) for everyone which just runs up family debt
Teachers’ unions are terrorist organization and should be treated as such.
Many of the fed Departments and Agencies are unconstitutional. Up to the States!
bttt
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