(Lake Fong/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)
Perhaps no profession in the country has lost more luster over the last year than that of teaching. Teacher’s unions have taken the pandemic and used it to extract hundreds of billions of dollars from taxpayers while refusing to go to work. Meanwhile, they’ve continued to get paid because nothing has to make sense when it comes to the government, local, state, or federal.
One of the chief instigators of so much pain for America’s children has been Randi Weingarten, the head of the American Federation of Teachers. Just the other day she posted a selfie boarding a private plane, showing just how out of touch she is. She’s also continually ignored the science when it comes to the safety of kids going back to school.
The president of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten, attacked Jews who criticized her union’s efforts to keep schools closed for in-class instruction as members of the “ownership class.”
“American Jews are now part of the ownership class,” Weingarten said in an interview with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency a month ago reported by the Jerusalem Post. The 63-year-old union president who represents 1.7 million members was responding to those who criticize efforts to keep schools closed while they exploit the coronavirus crisis for billions in stimulus money that won’t be spent for years.
“I think some people are very skeptical of the power that they perceive teachers unions to have,” began the interviewer. “They look at, for example, the ongoing struggles in Los Angeles, where they see this bi dollar figure of aid being given for school reopening and are baffled by the perceived resistance of teachers to going back to work.”