{"id":258210,"date":"2021-05-25T02:06:04","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T23:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/randi-weingarten-keeps-digging-a-deeper-hole\/"},"modified":"2021-05-25T02:06:04","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T23:06:04","slug":"randi-weingarten-keeps-digging-a-deeper-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/randi-weingarten-keeps-digging-a-deeper-hole\/","title":{"rendered":"#Randi Weingarten keeps digging a deeper hole"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Randi Weingarten keeps digging a deeper hole<\/strong>”
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\u201cTeachers are tired; they are exhausted. We have to find a way to repair and nourish them as well as families in terms of attracting and retaining our teaching force,\u201d American Federation of Teachers boss Randi Weingarten whined Friday. We guess she\u2019s trying the \u201cpity us\u201d card after the \u201cnaked lies\u201d one fell flat.<\/p>\n

Just last month, the union was still publicly lobbying hard to put the brakes on getting kids back in classrooms full-time. Heck, Weingarten infamously used her White House pull to force the Centers for Disease Control to adopt verbatim the AFT\u2019s wildly overcautious language on safely reopening schools.<\/p>\n

Among her absurd excuses for why so many public schools failed to follow private and parochial schools in reopening long ago, she actually insisted that (as Reason\u2019s Matt Welch notes)<\/a> government-run schools uniquely lack enough soap and hot water to keep everyone safe.<\/p>\n

Parents fed up with classroom closures and \u201cZoom\u201d school responded rapidly on social media<\/a> to Weingarten\u2019s absurdities. \u201cMy kids are getting 2 hours twice a week in person,\u201d wrote one father<\/a> about the short teaching periods offered. \u201cWhen it was Zoom it was 2 hours 4 days a week. They must be so exhausted. I hope the teachers are ok,\u201d he snarked.<\/p>\n

Another tweet<\/a>: \u201cMedical workers and grocery store workers need to be nourished and repaired too. You. Aren\u2019t. Special.\u201d<\/p>\n

On MSNBC later Friday, Weingarten offered another red herring, fretting that largely unvaccinated children pose a disease risk<\/a>. All the science<\/a> says they don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday that city schools will reopen full-time, with no remote-learning option but masks required for all \u2014 exactly what Weingarten has most recently been calling for, even though kids under 12 simply aren\u2019t COVID spreaders, and with infection rates plummeting, it\u2019s likely that mask mandates will look absurd by September.<\/p>\n

Nor does either leader have any good explanation for why city schools aren\u2019t all open now<\/em>. <\/p>\n

Too many of Weingarten\u2019s members just don\u2019t want to return to full-time, in-person teaching. But de Blasio is talking tough here, saying teachers will no longer receive blanket medical exemptions to remain at home. With a few rare exceptions, they should all just get jabbed.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a rough 15 months for everyone. If teachers\u2019 unions don\u2019t want to earn even more contempt from the furious public, they need to quit the special pleading and focus (for once) on the children\u2019s needs. Demanding pity after their disgraceful performance of the last year is only digging an even deeper hole.\n <\/p><\/div>\n