It seems more and more to me that the teacher’s unions are grasping at straws, trying to keep themselves relevant, as school choice becomes a bigger and bigger issue. Everyone knows the biggest drawback to parents sending their children to a school of their own personal choice is cost. The more affluent can send their kids to whatever school they choose, whereas the less affluent essentially cannot because they cannot afford it.
During Covid, before Covid, and now after Covid, the policies of the teachers’ unions has done more harm to the less affluent than to any other group. Which group of students are the furthest behind because of the policies of the American Federation of Teachers and its president, President Randi Weingarten, who likened parental rights and school choice advocates to segregationists: She says the words “choice” and “parental rights” are the same kind of words that were used in reaction to school desegregation by opponents of the Brown v. Board of Education decision (X).
Randi Weingarten, have you no shame!
CNN hostess Abby Phillip called out the head of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) over the revelation that she sends her son to a private Catholic school. Stacy Davis Gates has harshly criticized school choice as racist and hateful. Phillip asked her: “Do you think your rhetoric, at some point, went too far when you are making a choice – because perhaps I assume you can afford to do that – that a lot of Chicago parents don’t because they can’t afford it?”
As expected Stacy Davis Gates danced around the issue, and did not answer the question.
Stacy Davis Gates, have you no shame!
Similarly … CV NEWS FEED // A new report exposed backroom deals that gave Louisiana’s unionized public school teachers access to school choice for their children – despite teachers unions’ hardline opposition to school choice for families in the general public.
Louisiana’s unionized public school teachers, have you no shame!
9/16/23