Randi Weingarten’s latest anti-parent rantings are extremeBy Post Editorial Board
April 24, 2022
Whatever she thinks she’s doing, American Federation of Teachers chief Randi Weingarten isn’t helping her members with such over-the-top extremism as claiming that things like Florida’s new parental-rights law are “the way in which wars start.”
Yes, she actually argued on a podcast that parents and politicians worried about some teachers and school staff seeking to indoctrinate kids are just pushing “propaganda” and “misinformation.”
“We’re not indoctrinating,” she said. “We’re not grooming. . . . What we’re doing is making sure we educate kids. We keep them safe. We keep them welcome. And we teach them how to think, not what to think.”
The other side, she claims, wants “to marginalize LGBTQ kids, censor teachers and ban books.” This, about a law that simply stops lesson plans and so on about trans issues for tots through 3rd grade. Somehow, this amounts to “right-wing extremists . . . trying to put back in the closet people who may be gay or trans.”
She’s also upset about efforts to keep critical race theory out of the classroom, insisting it’s a bid to make kids “hate each other.” In fact, it’s about not imposing far-out racist thinking that pushes children to see everything in strict racial categories.
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2022/04/24/randi-weingartens-latest-anti-parent-rantings-are-extreme/
