Randi Weingarten, as head of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), has done it all to distract Americans from the true culpability the teachers unions had with the school lockdowns--as well as delayed reopenings--that set students back and led to a particularly devastating drop in National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) math and reading scores. She's tried everything from gaslighting to feigned memory loss, including when it comes to her overactive Twitter presence, as well as even testifying before Congress.
The thing is, Weingarten doesn't exactly believe in spirited debate when it comes to her outrageous ideals or revisionist history, so she locks down replies. People still notice though, not only with quoted retweets calling her out, but also now through Community Notes.
Our friends at Twitchy have highlighted a particularly delusional take from Weingarten, via a tweet from last Thursday in which she is preaching to the choir on what we all already knew, that, as she recognizes, "School closing does nothing for the kids in the closed schools."
The tweet and article in question refers to closed schools in Chicago because of "too many seats for too few students." The idea of "closed schools" also applies to closing them due to COVID. Unlike most of us, though, Weingarten actually had the direct amount of power and influence to do something about it.
Further, speaking of Chicago specifically, students were also harmed by the teachers strike in 2022, and in so many previous years before that.
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Sadly, not a surprise based on prior research… When will we learn? School closing does nothing for the kids in the closed schools. https://t.co/SSk1qnYWif
— Randi Weingarten 🇺🇦🇺🇸💪🏿👩🎓 (@rweingarten) May 26, 2023
It's almost certainly the case that even Weingarten knows her tweet is nonsense, which is surely why she must lock down her tweet, because she can't handle being called out for it.
Are you the Randi Weingarten who was telling the CDC to close schools? https://t.co/Q8BnMSzDio
— Gumlegs (@Gumlegs) May 28, 2023
This is such an insult to our intelligence. @rweingarten clearly thinks her followers are stupid and don't remember that she fought to keep schools closed, and kids masked and jabbed.
— Etana Hecht 🇮🇱 🇺🇸 (@EtanaHechtDC) May 28, 2023
Untold amounts of damage to a generation of children is on her hands. #NoAmnesty https://t.co/92Cy3BKNLT
The moral of the story affirms School Choice ..
— Lawyerforlaws (@lawyer4laws) May 28, 2023
as in this story....the mother did ...
She sent her son to better performing school in Dallas.. https://t.co/LvJocBGdTS
she closed her replies like she closed the schools. pic.twitter.com/r7g2f1N9cW
— Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist (@DeAngelisCorey) May 28, 2023
Many of the tweets quoting Weingarten highlighted other concerns surrounding the teachers unions, such as the importance of school choice and the idea of "amnesty" for those who claimed they didn't know better when they reacted to the pandemic. Such measures not only involved lockdowns, school closures, mask mandates, and vaccine mandates, but how they punished and abused those who dared to take issue with the assault on civil liberties, or even just ask questions.
The request for "amnesty" was raised in an October 31, 2022 essay published in The Atlantic, "LET’S DECLARE A PANDEMIC AMNESTY."
Considering that Weingarten tried to use her age, 65-years-old, as an excuse for why she couldn't be expected to remember her first engagement with the Centers of Disease Control (CDC) while testifying before Congress last month, she could quite possibly be hoping the rest of us are too stupid or supposedly just forgetful as she is pretending to be.
QUESTION: "When was the first time you engaged with CDC?"
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) April 26, 2023
Randi Weingarten: "Look, I'm 65 years old. I don't remember everything any more." pic.twitter.com/qsnOaFmN2z
Speaking of the CDC, Weingarten and the teachers unions colluded with the Biden administration on talking points to keep schools closed, and then continued to gaslight about that narrative, too. Weingarten is also joined by the Biden administration on offering too little too late and shifting blame as well, especially when it comes to White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.
To the befuddlement of Martha MacCallum, teachers union head Randi Weingarten claims schools would have reopened sooner if former President Trump and his White House "kept on changing his mind and changing these things" and given schools the $$ they demanded and got them shots. pic.twitter.com/2zvrL6oFdo
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) May 10, 2021
Now that Republicans are in control of the House, though, Weingarten may finally be due for some kind of reckoning. Her preposterous response in the clip above from last month's hearing held by the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic is just one of many. It was a god awful performance. That may be why she's resisting being any more than cooperative than she already has been, which wasn't very cooperative at all.
Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) isn't done with her yet, though. Last week he sent Weingarten one more letter to do with what a committee press release explains has to do with "requesting supplementary documents and communications related to her influence over the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s school reopening guidance." The deadline for her to respond before a subpoena is issued is this Tuesday, May 30.
Weingarten, who tweets countless times throughout the day, including and especially about her hatred for Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), has also been hit at length with Community Notes.
PolitiFact | Here's what AFT’s Randi Weingarten said about reopening schools during COVID-19 https://t.co/6WgnvSgb43
— Randi Weingarten 🇺🇦🇺🇸💪🏿👩🎓 (@rweingarten) May 2, 2023
