{"id":255002,"date":"2021-05-19T22:38:32","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T19:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/teachers-unions-are-desperate-to-deflect-blame-over-closed-schools\/"},"modified":"2021-05-19T22:38:32","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T19:38:32","slug":"teachers-unions-are-desperate-to-deflect-blame-over-closed-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/teachers-unions-are-desperate-to-deflect-blame-over-closed-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"#Teachers unions are desperate to deflect blame over closed schools"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Teachers unions are desperate to deflect blame over closed schools<\/strong>”
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Could the wheels be falling off Randi Weingarten\u2019s little red wagon? Her union has badly damaged kids during COVID, people have noticed, and she app<\/a>ears to be panicking.<\/p>\n

Weingarten is the boss at the American Federation of Teachers. Her organization effectively padlocked classrooms across the country during the pandemic, and it still holds too many in its malign grip.<\/p>\n

New Yorkers may remember her as the iron fist in a velvet glove at the United Federation of Teachers, which she ran before ascending to the union\u2019s top job. It was a fruitful apprenticeship from the union\u2019s perspective; corrupting public policy by suborning politicians with campaign cash while bamboozling parents with artful untruths is a learned skill, which Weingarten mastered early on.<\/p>\n

Her art revolves around the myth that teachers as a corporate body care about kids. Many individuals do, but the union doesn\u2019t and never has. Need proof? Just reference the stay-at-home strikes the union have been conducting since the arrival of COVID.<\/p>\n

Look at it this way: There\u2019s going to be a New York Marathon this fall, but the only person who can say with any certainty whether the city\u2019s schools will be open isn\u2019t Mayor Bill de Blasio, but Weingarten underboss Mike Mulgrew, the ever-dour current president of the UFT and one of de Blasio\u2019s principal puppeteers.<\/p>\n

New York politicians eat crumbs from the teachers union table, and so does the national Democratic Party. Some of those crumbs can be substantial. The UFT, for example, early on tossed several hundred thousand dollars into a de Blasio slush fund-cum-political action account, a sum guaranteed to catch any pol\u2019s attention. A multibillion-dollar UFT contract followed in short order, which is, of course, the point.<\/p>\n

Extend that across the country, and deeply into Congress, and you get a fair sense of the scope of the problem.<\/p>\n

Parents are naked against such cynicism. Their personal contact with public education is transitory, while the unions are forever; inertia is always an issue, and people want to believe that their kids\u2019 teachers truly care, which is a comfort but effectively a fable, nevertheless.<\/p>\n

Yet here\u2019s the thing: Today there are millions of American parents whose lives were cast into social<\/a> and economic turmoil because of teacher union shutdowns \u2014 because of their refusal actually to teach during the pandemic, as they successfully insisted on full pay and benefits.<\/p>\n

And those uncertainties \u2014 along with, of course, the full pay and benefits \u2014 continue as the current school year comes to a halting conclusion and a new one looms.<\/p>\n

Parents have heard the rhetoric, including Weingarten\u2019s butter-wouldn\u2019t-melt-in-her-mouth demand that schools expeditiously be opened. But they have no reason to believe a word of it.<\/p>\n

Take Mulgrew. \u201cThe public has lost confidence in government, including the public schools,\u201d he wrote recently, which is manifest. But his prescription is smaller class sizes \u2014 \u201cHire more teachers!\u201d \u2014 and a checklist that effectively would maintain the union\u2019s hammerlock on reopening.<\/p>\n

So the questions are these: Has the mask finally slipped? Are parents coming to understand that their children are, first and foremost, paycheck fodder, tickets to be punched on the way to a lush Florida retirement?<\/p>\n

If that\u2019s so, then they are only a skip and a jump away from realizing that the unions\u2019 indifference to institutionalized classroom failure \u2014 indeed, their unvarnished hostility to job-threatening reform of any sort \u2014 is latter-day luddism, and nothing less.<\/p>\n

Weingarten seems to have noticed that people are noticing. Time to change the subject.<\/p>\n

And so she has \u2014 or, at least, so she is trying. How else to explain her silly effort to racialize the debate, prattling on about critical race theory and the pernicious 1619 Project, when all most people care about right now is whether the unions will allow the schools to open this fall.<\/p>\n

The first refuge of rascals these days, of course, is the race hustle. Weingarten, never a dummy, seems to be using it as a deflector shield. \u201cWe know we\u2019re in a bad place right now,\u201d she seems to be saying, \u201cand we\u2019d dearly love to get back to pretending to teach and all that. Meanwhile, look at the squirrel!\u201d<\/p>\n

The political culture is perfectly willing to let her off the hook. Whether parents will go along is something else. But if they do, and they\u2019re still in need of daycare come September, they\u2019ll know whom to blame.<\/p>\n

Themselves.<\/p>\n

Twitter: @RLMac2<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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