The Issue: A House hearing on federal guidelines that prolonged school closures during the pandemic.
The constant drip of information on American Federation of Teachers head Randi Weingarten underscores her corruptness and demonstrates that her priority is not the children (“Randi’s Seat In CDC’s Class,” April 27).
Her being in cahoots with the CDC and her anti-charter stance reveal she is indeed not looking out for students.
Both of these factors have played a large role in students not receiving the education they deserve.
If Weingarten remotely cared about students, she would be laser-focused on improving outcomes at the public schools, as enrollment continues to decline along with performance on tests.
Perhaps Weingarten should spend some time at the more successful charter schools — that consistently outperform her unionized schools and cost significantly less — to learn how to best educate children.
Eileen Corr
Brewster, Mass.
Weingarten is the most powerful woman in the United States.
It appears she can deliver millions of votes to the candidate of her choice, which of course is Biden.
Too bad she doesn’t use any of those superpowers to help the children in public schools learn to read, write and do mathematics.
J.J. Levine
Miami Beach, Fla.
All labor unions are driven by two prime directives: to increase membership and increase benefits.
Nothing else matters, as long as those interests are served.
As someone who proudly proclaims his years as a teacher and an administrator, I can say without equivocation that Weingarten’s leadership of the AFT during the pandemic only served to illustrate the teachers unions’ priorities as outlined above.
Schools in America’s inner cities were virtually closed for two years while teachers were paid to teach online from home.
It would be comedic if the results hadn’t been so horrific.
Children across the nation, whose school districts were in lockstep with the AFT and Weingarten, were denied academic and adolescent development.
The notion that students were able to Zoom into their classes and get instruction was no more than a fool’s errand.
Ken Karcinell
Hewlett
While members of Congress searched for crimes, corruption or perceived undue influence with the CDC, why did nobody raise the question with Weingarten of how to mitigate or remedy the harm done to students by COVID school closures?
Not one question was asked about keeping schools open this summer or lengthening the school day/year until most students recover the lost year or two of proficiency.
As union boss, of course she would oppose such efforts.
But it would bring attention to the failure of teachers, school boards and politicians to address the real issue of lost education time, instead of playing “gotcha” with a CDC memorandum about which no bystander cares.
Arnold S. Mazur
Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.
The two people who did the most damage to our children during the COVID pandemic were Weingarten and Anthony Fauci.
Together, they bullied the Biden administration into keeping schools closed, forcing unnecessary vaccine policies and keeping those masks on little children (who were never in danger).
Yet here we are in 2023, and these two power-hungry phonies have still gone unpunished.
They’re still protected by the left-wing media.
They just play the “deny, deny, deny” game.
Joe Nugent
Staten Island
Weingarten and her union must be very powerful.
She wasn’t grilled by Congress: She was handled with kid gloves by the Republicans. It looked more like a softball game than a grilling.
This woman, who affected more children than COVID, had no business dealing with the CDC.
This alone should be investigated.
It appears that the Republicans are afraid of the teachers union.
Pat Foster
Elizabeth, NJ
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