Back To Bizarro World

Last week, I told you about the insanity coming out of the National Education Association’s convention in Chicago. This week, we’re going to hear from the other major teacher’s union, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), which is meeting in Boston.

We got a preview yesterday from Randi Weingarten, president of the AFT, who warned of a crisis in American education. According to a survey of her union members, 90% of teachers are deeply concerned that “schools have become too politicized.”

Well, she’s not wrong about that. I think 90% of parents and taxpayers would agree that “schools have become too politicized.”

But she totally lost it when she portrayed her union members as the victims of “a year of political attacks on teachers waged by politicians stoking culture wars and banning books for personal gain.” In other words, it’s all your fault!

Welcome to Bizarro World, friends. 

Ms. Weingarten and the radical teachers’ unions are the reason there is so much politics swamping our schools! For Weingarten to say we have a problem with politics in the schools is like mobster Al Capone saying Chicago has a crime problem!

The teachers’ unions spend millions of dollars electing far-left candidates.  They promote radical curriculum that demonizes America as an evil nation, founded on slavery and genocide. 

They are radically pro-abortion, and they are all in on the insanity of transgenderism, forcing your daughter or granddaughter to share bathrooms with biological boys. They’ll even “transition” your child without your knowledge!

When COVID struck, the teachers unions were the first to demand that we close the schools, and they bitterly resisted every effort to reopen. We later found out that the decisions being made at the Centers for Disease Control were being approved by Randi Weingarten and her union. 

And when the Biden Administration announced that it was going to target concerned parents as “domestic terrorists,” Randi Weingarten applauded!

The teachers’ unions run the Department of Education. I am speaking from experience. I was the Under Secretary at the department in the Reagan Administration with then-Secretary Bill Bennett. We spent far too much time battling bureaucrats who were more loyal to the teachers’ unions than the administration. 

I don’t know Ms. Weingarten, but I do know her “wife.” She’s a rabbi who served briefly with me on the U.S. Commission for International Religious Freedom. What was unusual about her is that I was more pro-Israel than she was! Enough said.