It’s a transparent case that the fox heads the henhouse, as at all times: American Federation of Teachers head Randi Weingarten has just been named a member of the Department of Homeland Security’s School Safety Advisory Committee.
This, immediately right behind latest news about how much school lockdowns are costing American children – lockdowns that Weingarten has pushed relentlessly and all too effectively to be prolonged.
The 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress results, released last week – and the NAEP is widely seen as the gold standard for measuring learning – showed that 13-year-olds in the US have lost a long time of progress in reading and math.
Kids today are doing worse than their parents in math and worse than them grandparents in reading.
And while the reasons are long-term, there is simply little question that a 12 months or more of false “distant learning” has caused the decline.
Yes, we supported school closures in Recent York when COVID hit Gotham like a brick in March 2020: Nobody knew for sure how the virus worked, and the case for caution was overwhelming.
But as the weeks went by, the data soon showed that children (except for just a few tiny ones with certain risk aspects) were simply not in danger, and even transmitting COVID-19 fairly often.
It was equally clear that “distance learning” was a sick joke: while some heroic teachers continuously struggled to maintain their education up, many more even pretended to show online.
Town and nation must have reopened schools by this fall. Many states have done it, as have Catholic systems and other private schools in our area, all with no ailing effects.
Heck, Europe and most of the civilized world found the same thing.
The education secretary at the time, Betsy DeVos, also pushed hard for reopening – definitely proving She he was on the kid’s side.
Across America, the systems that remained closed were those where the strength of teachers’ unions was strongest.
OK: Some teachers were genuinely afraid despite available facts, but others said they loved getting paid for not working.
And the unions, which for a long time justified their every demand for more privileges and power as “for the children”, decisively sided with the worst instincts of their members and against the education of those children.
Weingarten used her pull to the latest Biden White House to force the Centers for Disease Control to vary its suggestion to reopen schools in favor of a “protected reopening” policy that was tantamount to advice to remain closed for the foreseeable future.
Randi is now in deep damage control mode counting on her “protected reopening” lie.
She even just confessed to The Recent York Times that she was incorrect to dismiss warnings from DeVos and others about the huge lack of science attributable to the downtime.
She tries to pretend that each one the hate she gets is because she’s a robust progressive Democrat, leading the union that is the pillar of the party.
And the hackers controlling this party are playing together: why else put a proven enemy of kids on the panel All with “school safety”?
Make no mistake: this woman must be completely faraway from public life – faraway from every government position, AND from any role in her party and union.
Standing with Randi, the Democrats and her members admit that they only care about power and profit, rattling America’s children.