Teachers Union Head Randi Weingarten Says Parents Are Stoking the Flames of War By Kira Davis for Red State
Randi Weingarten is the President of the American Federation of Teachers and perhaps the person who is most to blame for the horrific abuse our children have suffered in the public education system over the last two years.
She has wielded the power of her union and affiliates to wedge her way into federal COVID policies and CDC discussions about health, and the victims have been voters and taxpayers who have had absolutely no say in her representation or influence. Weingarten is a union representative who’s interests only lie with her organization, which is not exactly surprising. In fact, it’s expected; it’s right there in the name…TEACHERS. If her strong-arming only applied to the interests of teachers, that would be one thing. However, Weingarten cloaks her activism in the language of “justice” and the outcome of her activism is to disadvantage students and parents. That is a combative stance, and yet Weingarten recently had the nerve to say that pushback in the form of parental rights legislation and discussion is how “wars start.”
On a recent podcast, the AFT President suggested the current trend of parental interest and parental rights activism is “propaganda” and intimated that parents fighting for their liberties is akin to stoking warfare.
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“This notion – we’ve been very lucky in America, and we in some ways live in a bubble for a long time…this is propaganda. This is misinformation. This is the way in which wars start. This is the way in which hatred starts.”
To recap, Weingarten believes that teachers and their union representatives colluding with government to override parental authority and set local and federal health policies is just fine, but parents opposing that collusion are warmongers.
In a statement to Fox News, the union head accused “vocal minorities” of harming gay children, teachers, and book banning.
“Educators welcome parent involvement in schools because our kids do best when teachers, parents and caregivers work together,” said AFT president Randi Weingarten in a statement to Fox News earlier this week. “We have a lot to do to help kids recover and thrive this year after two years of an unprecedented pandemic. So rather than help us help our kids socially, academically and emotionally, these vocal minorities want to marginalize LGBTQ kids, censor teachers and ban books.”
