Randi Weingarten deserves the fury of
parents across the nation
New York Post,
by
Post Editorial Board
Original Article
Posted By: mc squared,
3/13/2025 11:15:49 AM
American Federation of Teachers honcho Randi Weingarten’s sudden outrage over Team Trump’s plan to abolish the federal Department of Education is simply about losing her own power and influence — not any risk to the kids.
America’s “competitors — and adversaries — are no doubt cheering President Donald Trump’s plan to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education,” Weingarten asserts in an MSNBC column, pretending the DOE “helps give all children in the United States access to the great public school education they deserve.” [snip]
“A gutted department would mean fewer teachers, more crowded classrooms and increased mental health and behavioral challenges for students,” she lies.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
downnout 3/13/2025 11:35:48 AM (No. 1913770)
I would love to see the teachers union emphasize reading, math, and writing but they are too invested in promoting gender ideology and victimology. Let Randi explain why scores have been declining under her leadership.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
barbcrose 3/13/2025 12:03:31 PM (No. 1913793)
Back in the days I went to grade school, classes were always 30+ students and the nuns ruled with an iron ruler. We all learned reading, writing and arithmetic and we strived to be the top of the class! Kids went to school to learn and parents stood behind the teachers.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 3/13/2025 12:03:36 PM (No. 1913794)
FTA...'AFT founder Albert Shanker was famously more honest:.. '“When schoolchildren start paying union dues, that’s when I’ll start representing the interests of schoolchildren.”'
(AFT...American Federation of Teachers.)
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
0658 3/13/2025 12:14:57 PM (No. 1913806)
The only thing she is concerned about is the number of dues paying teachers and how that may effect her salary. She has no interest in the kids, only power and influence.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 3/13/2025 12:15:22 PM (No. 1913807)
One of your more repulsive labor leaders.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
kono 3/13/2025 12:20:17 PM (No. 1913813)
"'A gutted department would mean fewer teachers, more crowded classrooms and increased mental health and behavioral challenges for students,' she lies."
There may be more unevenness in the national distribution of teachers; but having fewer bureaucrats to pay should free some resources for hiring teachers instead of administrators.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
dbdiva 3/13/2025 12:25:07 PM (No. 1913815)
150 years ago in 1-room schoolhouses with one teacher and multiple grades those children had a more superior learning experience than today’s kids.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
paral04 3/13/2025 12:39:50 PM (No. 1913830)
The DOE destroyed our schools. The kids now, who are not in private schools but have parents who car, seem to do OK. But, the kids who have working moms who are too tired or not very bright do not. These kids act out in schools and taught that the world is against them if they are minorities and not taught to write or read much less math, history or science. There is no national testing and states like New York that had state-wide Regents exams that you had to pass to get promoted, These are now gone from what I understand. In the meantime, international students are flooding our universities keeping some of the that working students from getting into a decent college..This coupled with the stupid DEI rules hasn't helped.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 3/13/2025 12:54:49 PM (No. 1913839)
All public employees should be prohibited from forming unions that bargain for wages. It leads to incestious relationjships between the unions and politicians, as is grossly obvious with the AFT pushing Leftist causes that have nothing to do with education. The dems opened the door for schools to solve all sorts of social ills. Household can't afford to get enough food? The school should feed the kids. A child has significant developmental problems, the school should manage that. ... The problem with that is that schools are not expert in non educational things. Further, it bloats their costs and not all of it is reimbursed by the federal government so it gets dumped on local budgets. If the federal or state government wants to accomplish something, they should FULLY fund it and create mechanisms outside of schools to implement it so the management and costs are not a distraction from the PRIMARY purpose of the school, EDUCATION!
And if the local school wants to preach gender bender or other controversial topics, they should do it on their own.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Italiano 3/13/2025 1:10:25 PM (No. 1913853)
Evil creature
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
FJB 3/13/2025 1:13:02 PM (No. 1913855)
Quit whining, lady, and go weed.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
mc squared 3/13/2025 1:16:51 PM (No. 1913859)
"F.D.R. Warned Us About Public Sector Unions"
NY Times 7-23-14
https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/02/18/the-first-blow-against-public-employees/fdr-warned-us-about-public-sector-unions
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
jalo1951 3/13/2025 2:00:21 PM (No. 1913881)
90% of the teachers I worked with joined the union for one reason only. Access to an attorney if they needed one.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Shark365 3/13/2025 2:04:00 PM (No. 1913884)
There is no doubt that education in America has been a slow-rolling train wreck for decades. As a former educator I can attest to the veracity of this statement. The reasons are multitude—which I will not enumerate here (you’re welcome) but there are some significant influences that have accelerated our race to the bottom: a dewy-eyed fondness for novel research; never-ending submission to pop psychologies; and the self-righteous belief that the public education system is superior to parental influence. It is this latter conviction that spawned the DOE. The figurative demolition of the DOE needed to happen long ago.
Signed,
A home-school convert
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
sailannapolis 3/13/2025 2:18:06 PM (No. 1913893)
Teachers, are hired locally not through the Federal government
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 3/13/2025 3:02:20 PM (No. 1913917)
It has come out of the woodwork to protest Trump. Randi, does your wife agree with you?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
danu 3/13/2025 4:47:26 PM (No. 1913955)
what a lowlife. iirc she is on record saying we don't serve parents or students.
we support teachers, no matter what they do.
now we know where the entrenched abusers in schools came from.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
chumley 3/13/2025 4:53:52 PM (No. 1913966)
I hated school, in general. I had a few inspirational teachers but most were just there waiting for retirement. One stopped talking and walked out of the classroom at noon on his last day. Not a word to anyone. And so many of the teachers spent all their time teaching to the dumbest kid in the class. Quite a few just showed movies all day, and some preached their communist political leanings. Even had a few gays who like to talk up their life choices.
My home schooled years were vastly superior. Mom was as tough as nails and did not accept failure. Neither did she distract from the subject at hand.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
YorkieMom 3/13/2025 6:46:57 PM (No. 1914021)
As usual, the libs like Randi are always using the scare tactics. As a retired teacher, I say get rid of the Department of Education. Also, I joined the union as soon as I started teaching, then found out that my state is a right to work state, so I quit the union as soon as I could. No union dues from me, thank you. The union did not help a good teacher friend of mine when she was being threatened, and she was one of the best teachers and friend I ever had. Teacher unions don't do squat.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
mifla 3/14/2025 5:18:05 AM (No. 1914206)
FTA: "...access to the great public school education..."
What an oxymoron.
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The DOE was instituted in 1980. Are kids smarter now?
What does the agency do but provide political force and grift from taxpayers. Don't just trim it - eliminate it. Good Riddance