What Randi Weingarten Leaves Out of the Story
The teachers-union boss’s deflections aren’t convincing. July 12, 2023 11:33 am ET American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten in Miami, June 3, 2022. Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images What a wonderfully flowery response by teachers-union chief Randi Weingarten (Letters, July 7). Just as she had nothing to do with keeping schools closed during Covid, we’re supposed to be sold on her pitch for gov-ed (public schools). Reading and math scores are abysmal, while activist teachers push critical race theory and ideas of gender fluidity. Children are indoctrinated to believe they are either “oppressors” of the “oppressed” based on the color of their skin. That isn’t what parents send their children to learn. Lt. Col. Larry Kovalchik, USMC (Ret.) Boerne, Texas Ms. Weingarten deflects blame by invoking America’s hard-workin
American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten in Miami, June 3, 2022.
Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images
What a wonderfully flowery response by teachers-union chief Randi Weingarten (Letters, July 7). Just as she had nothing to do with keeping schools closed during Covid, we’re supposed to be sold on her pitch for gov-ed (public schools). Reading and math scores are abysmal, while activist teachers push critical race theory and ideas of gender fluidity. Children are indoctrinated to believe they are either “oppressors” of the “oppressed” based on the color of their skin. That isn’t what parents send their children to learn.
Lt. Col. Larry Kovalchik, USMC (Ret.)
Boerne, Texas
Ms. Weingarten deflects blame by invoking America’s hard-working public-school teachers. But it is the teachers-union leadership, not the average teacher, that bears responsibility for the debacle befalling our K-12 schools. Her labeling of those who question her authority over the lives our children as “extreme” rings hollow.
Neil Macready
Newport Beach, Calif.
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