The president of the American Federation of Teachers said that politicians have turned teachers into social justice warriors, who can’t teach certain books.
Union boss Randi Weingarten appeared to take a swing at Republican politicians when she said that teachers’ hands were tied because they’re not allowed to discuss some issues or teach specific books.
During her rant, Randi Weingarten specifically mentioned not being able to teach The Diary of Anne Frank. A school district in Republication-led Texas recently prohibited an illustrated edition of the well-known diary that is frequently taught to middle school children.
In a back-to-school town hall alongside luminaries such as Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, Randi Weingarten, 64, said that politicians have turned teachers into social justice warriors, and she said that very few teachers believed that they were going into teaching to be social justice warriors.
She also expressed her view that teachers are burnt out because they’re required to be masks police and regulate what they can teach, and she went on to say that has been what’s created some of the burnout, and that was not parents. That’s politicians! Parents just want the best for their children, and so do the teachers.
Randi Weingarten had been questioned about how to tackle the teacher shortage in America when she made her comments.
She had earlier said it was essential for educators to feel respected in their roles, and she continued that it’s not been easy, not just the last two years, but the injustice, the unfairness, the absence of opportunity, the lack of a level playing field, and teachers are basically the first responders to all of this, and what they ask for is they ask for respect.
Randi Weingarten ended by stating that people would want to be educators if they knew they’d be respected.
In August, Politico reported that the US was facing a deficit of about 300,000 educators.
The website blamed the reason for the shortage on uncompetitive wages, hazardous working conditions and the lack of job security.
Speaking to the Washington Post about the shortage, Dom Domenech, the executive director of the School Superintendents Association said that he had never seen it this bad and that right now it’s number one on the checklist of issues that are concerning school districts.
Dom Domenech also said that necessity is the mother of invention, and hard-pressed districts are going to have to come up with some answers.
On Randi Weingarten’s watch, the AFT has pushed back against schools re-opening post-COVID 19, flown in the face of CDC guidelines by imposing mask mandates on school districts and promoted a progressive agenda that includes the tenets of Critical Race Theory turning classrooms into frontlines in an increasingly divisive political and cultural war.
Talking to a newspaper outlet Tiffany Justice, founder of Moms for Liberty, a non-profit organisation aimed at organising, educating and empowering parents. Randi Weingarten said that she was an arsonist that pretends to be a firefighter.
Since Randi Weingarten took leadership in 2008, the management of the union coffers had been harnessed and used almost entirely in the interest of the Democrats.
This is appalling. It’s a teacher’s job to teach math, science, history et cetera. People might have personal viewpoints on social issues, but that is their problem and shouldn’t be pushed onto anyone else, and the education system has to be restored and taken away from these lunatics.
Teachers are employed to do one job – teach. They can be social justice warriors in their own time, just leave our children out of it, but if they can’t do that then perhaps we should homeschool our children because homeschooled children achieve vastly better than state-taught children do.
They need to stop brainwashing our children because eventually, it will be a one-party system, and that’s not what the founding fathers wanted, and it appears that those who run American teacher’s unions despise children, well at least they act as though they despise children.
The teacher’s unions are the number one obstacle to education reform, by far. They stand in the way of school choice, school safety, and almost any endeavour to enhance teacher quality or reform schools in any way.
They feed off and encourage, incompetence and lack of accountability, and no one harms America’s youth as much as the teacher’s unions.
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