There are so many terrible people on Twitter, but no one can stir up a ratio like AFT union president Randi Weingarten — that is, before she started turning off replies to her tweets. That was probably a good idea on her part, seeing as she got hammered for every single one of her stupid tweets, like the one claiming her union had been fighting since April 2020 to reopen schools.
The American Prospect published a piece on Weingarten’s “major address” this week and cried about how teachers are under attack. The headline is, “A Teacher Answers Back” — so we scanned the piece to see which teacher they were talking about, but the whole thing is about Weingarten — who’s not a teacher.
A great nation does not fear the education of its citizens. All of its citizens. I wonder what people like Gov DeSantis are afraid of. https://t.co/Vb6g8tfICu
— Randi Weingarten 🇺🇦🇺🇸💪🏿👩🎓 (@rweingarten) April 1, 2023
A great nation doesn’t trap children in failing public schools to ensure they’re properly indoctrinated.
Governor DeSantis opened schools in 2020. Meanwhile you opposed him relentlessly and fought to deny kids the right to go to school for over a year after FL was back to normal. Who really “fears education”? https://t.co/IRU4bgIpUM
— Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) April 1, 2023
Randi makes around $560,000.00 a year. From teacher’s dues. Maybe she is trying to keep the gravy train going?
— Florida Native (@OliviaFLNative) April 1, 2023
Wow no kidding?!
— Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) April 1, 2023
The gaslighting is strong with this one, Christina. She actually claims to have the children’s best interests at heart. Imagine?
— Getty’s Uncle (@red_barchetta2) April 1, 2023
But she does fear tweets from outside her echo chamber.
— WestTNBarBQ (@WestTNBarBQ) April 1, 2023
Our county in GA went back to in-person instruction at 50% for the first half of the 20-21 school year and said “Let’s just see what happens”. We were back to 100% after the Christmas break that year. Meanwhile the next county over was still doing some silly hybrid thing.
— JawjaJim (@JimJawja) April 1, 2023
Since Randi turns off comments, I’ll comment here. I’m a Florida mom. My kids returned to school in 2020, the day they were able, camp that summer also thanks to Gov. DeSantis. No COVID. No depression. Their educational path never deviated. They were ahead of their peers.
— Smug Potato (@PotatoSmug) April 1, 2023
The irony is that school closures is what opened our eyes to what’s going on in the classroom.
Too many parents had no idea until then.
— Bert Maverick (@PalmettoLoon) April 1, 2023
Neither I nor anyone I know “fears education”.
What I fear are people like @rweingarten standing in the way of an open and honest education system by opposing any and all school choice.— Lars Kerch (@LarsKerch) April 1, 2023
The US school response was criminal. Schools in EU opened back up in Spring 2020 and there were no sudden rise in cases. Some US schools remained closed for 18 months while teachers demanded social justice changes that had nothing to do with Covid.
— NW_Conservative (@fishing_nw) April 1, 2023
Teachers’ unions did “fight” to get schools to reopen — except their demands were ridiculous and included a bunch of social justice nonsense that had nothing to do with COVID-19.
She is totally against censorship and bans and blocking the free flow of information. Which is why she blocks all replies from anyone she doesn’t agree with. 😂
— Margaret Clare O’Connor (@learnfromlocke) April 1, 2023
Funny how that troll always locks down replies.
— jhawk4life 🇺🇸 (@jhawk4life) April 1, 2023
Randi doesn’t fear education. She fears a properly educated populace.
— Alessa (@AlessaGaultier) April 1, 2023
In a just society, she’d fear for her job. Here’s why Weingarten fears DeSantis:
Today’s proposal from @GovRonDeSantis takes a huge swing at wayward school unions:
-no more deducting dues from paychecks
-no union business or fliers at work
-school union execs can’t be paid more than highest paid member
-and a requirement to have 60% representation to exist— Bryan Griffin (@BryanDGriffin) January 23, 2023
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