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Before this insane hag there was Al Shanker.
He was as bad or worse.
In Woody Allen's movie Sleeper, he asks what caused the nuclear holocaust.
"Someone named Al Shanker got hold of a nuclear weapon."
Why are these union assholes so evil?

No idea who this person is. That's probably a good thing?

clambo says

Why are these union assholes so evil?

The purpose of a Teacher's Union is to benefit the teachers. It is not for the benefit of the students. It is not for the benefit of the parents of the students (free and convenient childcare). It is not for benefit of society.

SunnyvaleCA says

clambo says

Why are these union assholes so evil?

The purpose of a Teacher's Union is to benefit the teachers. It is not for the benefit of the students. It is not for the benefit of the parents of the students (free and convenient childcare). It is not for benefit of society.

Actually, they pretend to benefit teachers.

Another example of evil looking exactly like you'd expect it to.

Yeah, and the school closures and COVID restrictions caused standardized test scores to slide even further down.

REpro says

Actually, they pretend to benefit teachers.

That's a good point. More like the benefit the teachers who are lazy and/or horrible. Also: Promote additional numbers of non-teaching "staff" so that the bloat continues to increase.

Teachers Unions were communist since the 1930s.

They should have been banned.

This lady is a nut. Lisbian, never had a kid, pushed for school closures. She is a typical lgbtp+ commie sociopath.

Santa Cruz has quite an array of hard core TU fanatics. They are a phalanx of self serving self deception as to their motives and methods. Their quicksilver hostility to any suggestion that they may not be archangels of righteousness and virtue signaling enlightenment is, indeed, very KommieKunt in thuggery aspect.

Many of them have prosperous extended families otherwise, and the TU thing is sideline albeit hardcore scam for them to thrive on the feedbags of public taxations, kind of like a little mafia business on the side.

https://palexander.substack.com/p/randi-weingarten-aft-president-did

Randi Weingarten AFT president did more to damage the health & well-being, education, social development, psychological development etc. of our children in conspiring with Fauci & Birx, against Trump

She said Trump pushing to open schools was 'Reckless, callous, cruel' yet today we know & always knew children had a statistical zero risk of severe outcome or death if exposed; kids killed themselves

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/metastasizing-bureaucracy-randi-goes

consider america’s most dishonest totalitarian teacher talking point pusher randi weingarten, head of the powerful american federation of teachers union that has done so much to make education unsafe, unaffordable, ineffective, and unaccountable.

her behavior during covid was nothing short of despicable. she wrapped herself in the cloak of “safety” to keep schools closed to use the deprivation of education as a lever to drive concessions on teacher pay other work bennies then had the unmitigated gall to cast herself as having been “the champion of opening.” this woman is an amoral manipulative apparatchik to the core and serves nothing but her team.

she opposes parents having knowledge of or say in education and sees children as a “ward of the state” and parents as subservient and ancillary. she seemed to favor the trend of trying to label parents opposing radical curriculums and demanding in person schooling as “domestic terrorists.”

and guess who just brought her in as an advisor?

yup. DHS.



now, call me mr cynical paws, but “radical teacher’s unions, now with SWAT teams” seems a poor recipe for educational reform.

this whole system has become one big tyranny of failing up. the worse you behave and the more damage you do, the more everyone wants you onside and hands you more power so long as you’re going to use it in support of whatever oppressive purpose du jour happens to be.

they are happy to use any pretext to justify the taking of power and the “credential” gained by the last failure is used to provide proof of bona fides to advise on the next one. it’s a circular self-promotion scheme to keep using the honors they bestow upon one another to justify the grant of further prerogative.

it has no sense, no morality, and no accountability.

it’s just a will to power.

and they are happy to put darth vader in charge of the ewok village so long as it means they get to keep command.

a great deal of deeply warranted demand for change on schools is brewing.

they would seek to cast this not as “a reason to demand change” but as “terrorism and hate crime.”

these two agencies coming together cannot possibly be a good thing for we the people or they the children or anything resembling choice.

seriously, what is the honest case here for “this is a good idea”?

this sort of safety theater as pantomime justification for uncriticizable totalitarian control cannot be countenanced.

these agencies and organization systems cannot be fixed.

they must be eliminated.

there will not be “better people next time” there will just be more of this, on and on, bureaucracy without end.

these are the real issues. not donkey. not elephant. it’s freedom and the ripping out, root and stem, of all these agencies. ...

the department of education should be closed and its offices sold for condos.

DHS should be disbanded. they have become a grotesque parody of a protector that causes more damage to the rights and freedoms of americans than all of terrorism combined could ever hope to.

it seems we are at something of a societal break point where these agencies either agglomerate into one edifice of control with no daylight between education, anti-terrorism, and thought police or where we start tearing this out and retaking that which is ours.

the people currently inhabiting these agencies know only one thing and it’s growing fiefdoms.

that is antithetical to our freedom and thriving.

one of us has to go.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/rats-thursday-september-7-2023-c?r=6gdz

Yesterday, Fox News ran a story headlined, “Biden nixed goal of getting kids back to school post-COVID to avoid conflict with teachers' union boss: book.”

Back during the Trump-Biden campaign, presidential candidate Bob Peters repeatedly promised to re-open locked-down schools, but he broke that promise immediately after being selected President. According to a new hagiographic biography, ominously titled “The Last Politician,” Biden welshed on his re-opening promise to please the teachers’ unions.

Describing the devilish deal as “the price of peace," biographer Franklin Foer reported that American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten vehemently opposed re-opening schools, and Biden folded to the pressure like a bargain-bin Wal-Mart tent. On Biden's first day in office, Jill Biden invited Weingarten and NEA President Becky Pringle to the White House.

Seven days later, Biden announced an Orwellian “revised” re-opening plan that didn’t reopen anything but kept schools closed. Foer’s book disclosed, “Jen Psaki explained that Biden had really meant that he wanted more than half of the pre-K-to-8 schools to attend at least one in-person session a week by the end of his first hundred days."

Biden “really meant.” There’s been a lot of that over the last couple years.

Fortunately for Floridians, Governor DeSantis rapidly re-opened Florida’s schools and defeated multiple lawsuits filed by the unions (and my goofy county) trying to stop him and keep kids out of school while teachers kept getting paid.

If there is any better justification than this atrocious story for abolishing the teachers’ unions, I don’t know what it could be. Comments welcome.