The powerful head of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten, is apparently panicked that the policies of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis will trigger parents to pluck their children out of public schools, where Weingarten and her ilk can inculcate their leftist messaging, and place them in private schools instead.
On Thursday, Weingarten referencing an article in the leftist The New Republic that attacked DeSantis for his policies, tweeted, “This isn’t just about masks or about Governor DeSantis’ political aspirations. It’s about the complete destabilization of public education so that parents will choose private schools.”
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This isn’t just about masks or about Governor DeSantis’ political aspirations. It’s about the complete destabilization of public education so that parents will choose private schools. <a href="https://t.co/o9FkLV7vNW">https://t.co/o9FkLV7vNW</a>
&mdash; Randi Weingarten 🇺🇸💪🏿👩‍🎓🟣🌴🥥 (@rweingarten) <a href="https://twitter.com/rweingarten/status/1443746419282751492?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 1, 2021</a></blockquote>
The New Republic had huffed, “Florida’s recent struggles over masks in schools augur a terrifying shift in the right’s approach to education policy,” then quickly gave a salient reason for the Left’s panic:
<blockquote>This May, in a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVujpIator0">speech</a> at Michigan’s deeply conservative Hillsdale College, Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran sketched out a few principles for Republicans to follow. Conservatives, he said, should no longer consider the primary purpose of school to be training students for employment; instead, they should see it as instilling moral values. </blockquote>
The article continued that DeSantis “appears to be piloting a new education ideology for Republicans. Trading in the decades-old, substantially bipartisan education reform agenda, a formula that was born in Florida, he is mustering a naked attack on the very existence of public schools.”
Some examples of DeSantis’ actions that terrify The New Republic:
<blockquote>In March, he unveiled a $106 million civics education initiative—developed, uncoincidentally, under the <a href="https://floridaphoenix.com/2019/08/22/the-legislature-inserted-groups-tied-to-right-wing-donors-into-floridas-new-law-on-civics-education/">advisement</a> of Hillsdale College, which directs a line of charter schools, <a href="https://floridaphoenix.com/2019/08/23/fl-education-commissioners-wife-connected-to-private-christian-college-chosen-for-state-civics-education-review/">including</a> one <a href="https://floridaphoenix.com/2019/08/23/fl-education-commissioners-wife-connected-to-private-christian-college-chosen-for-state-civics-education-review/">run</a> by the education commissioner’s wife—that emphasizes “the influence of the Ten Commandments,” calls protesting “irresponsible citizenship,” and bans “<a href="https://floridapolitics.com/archives/414375-ron-desantis-critical-marx/">Marxist</a>” critical race theory. In June, the state Board of Education <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-board-education-critical-race-theory">prohibited</a> any instruction that defines American history “as something other than the creation of a new nation based largely on universal principles stated in the Declaration of Independence.” </blockquote>
In July, Weingarten <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/teachers-union-president-attacks-desantis-millions-will-die-gets-slammed-offers-only-partial-apology/">hysterically attacked</a> DeSantis, tweeting that “Millions of Floridians are going to die for Ron DeSantis’ ignorance and he’s choosing to profit from it,” after DeSantis’ campaign team offered T-shirts saying, “Don’t Fauci My Florida.”
Six hours later she offered a tepid half-apology, tweeting, “You are all probably right … I shouldn’t have said millions.” Weingarten’s original tweet stated, “Disgusting. Millions of Floridians are going to die for Ron DeSantis’ ignorance and he’s choosing to profit from it. He doesn’t care about Floridians; he cares about furthering his own cruel agenda.”
DeSantis Press Secretary Christina Pushaw blasted Weingarten in a statement to The Daily Wire, saying, “Is Randi Weingarten’s ridiculous claim that selling a koozie will lead to ‘millions’ of Floridians dying an example of Critical Math Theory? It’s terrifying that the fate of any child’s education is in the hands of someone so incredibly ignorant.&#8221;
As far as who is responsible for “destabilizing” public schools, <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/report-nations-second-largest-teachers-union-influenced-cdc-on-school-reopening-guidelines-delayed-return-to-classrooms/">The Daily Wire</a> reported in May 2021:
<blockquote>The American Federation of Teachers, led by Randi Weingarten, appears to have lobbied the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to keep schools shuttered amid the coronavirus pandemic and &#8220;even suggested language for the federal agency’s school-reopening guidance released in February,&#8221; according to <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/05/01/teachers-union-collaborated-with-cdc-on-school-reopening-emails/?utm_source=twitter_sitebuttons&amp;utm_medium=site%20buttons&amp;utm_campaign=site%20buttons">a Saturday report from the New York Post</a>, based on emails between the AFT and CDC.
&#8220;The powerful teachers union’s full-court press preceded the federal agency putting the brakes on a full re-opening of in-person classrooms, emails between top CDC, AFT, and White House officials show,&#8221; the Post reported Saturday.</blockquote>
Weingarten’s tweet engendered responses like these:
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Hallelujah.
&mdash; Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) <a href="https://twitter.com/RubinReport/status/1443964166671196164?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 1, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Says the very woman who kept schools closed for a year. 
No one destabilized public education more than you, Randi. <a href="https://t.co/LvgojYhTtD">https://t.co/LvgojYhTtD</a>
&mdash; Reagan Battalion (@ReaganBattalion) <a href="https://twitter.com/ReaganBattalion/status/1443964687708721155?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 1, 2021</a></blockquote>
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teachers unions destabilized public education by fighting to keep schools closed for over a year.
&mdash; Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist (@DeAngelisCorey) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeAngelisCorey/status/1443961806087757837?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 1, 2021</a></blockquote>
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teachers unions have inadvertently done more to advance school choice this past year than anyone could have ever imagined. thank you Randi.
&mdash; Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist (@DeAngelisCorey) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeAngelisCorey/status/1443967454523363336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 1, 2021</a></blockquote>
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I will say again: absolutely no one destabilized public education last year more than Randi Weingarten. School choice movement owes her a big thank you. We noticed that public schools controlled by her stayed closed while the private schools in same areas opened. We saw. <a href="https://t.co/5LPuCt054v">https://t.co/5LPuCt054v</a>
&mdash; Karol Markowicz (@karol) <a href="https://twitter.com/karol/status/1443964316974202881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 1, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Not seeing the problem here. <a href="https://t.co/jMR71BFCvw">https://t.co/jMR71BFCvw</a>
&mdash; Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) <a href="https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1443962663122321408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 1, 2021</a></blockquote>

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