{"id":1191082,"date":"2022-01-05T14:50:31","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T19:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1191082"},"modified":"2022-01-05T14:50:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T19:50:43","slug":"the-left-eat-their-own-randi-weingarten-slams-chicagos-lori-lightfoot-over-teachers-union-battle-praises-herculean-educators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-left-eat-their-own-randi-weingarten-slams-chicagos-lori-lightfoot-over-teachers-union-battle-praises-herculean-educators\/","title":{"rendered":"The Left Eat Their Own: Randi Weingarten Slams Chicago\u2019s Lori Lightfoot Over Teachers Union Battle, Praises \u2018Herculean\u2019 Educators"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-left-eat-their-own-randi-weingarten-slams-chicagos-lori-lightfoot-over-teachers-union-battle-praises-herculean-educators%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1191082&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten said on Wednesday that Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) should be \u201cmoving heaven and Earth\u201d to make Chicago schools safer for educators amidst the spread of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. Weingarten\u2019s statements come after the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) voted Tuesday evening to conduct only remote learning as COVID-19 cases rise in the city. That vote prompted Lightfoot to cancel classes completely on Wednesday, insisting that teachers get back to the classroom by Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Wire previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/class-canceled-chicago-teachers-union-votes-in-favor-of-remote-learning-at-odds-with-city-demanding-educators-appear-in-person\">reported<\/a>, signs indicate that a teachers strike could be coming, as it\u2019s unlikely a mutual decision between the city and the union will be reached by Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>One of the chief complaints is that public schools are not safe enough for teachers even though the vast majority \u2014 more than 86% of Chicago teachers union and staff are vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>Still, CTU voted overwhelmingly to move classes to remote learning and keep children home while Lightfoot and other Chicago health officials desperately tried laying out why it is not only safe, but necessary for teachers to be back in school.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, on Wednesday morning, Weingarten tweeted that \u201cLet\u2019s be clear here regarding Chicago schools- No one wants schools closed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Let\u2019s be clear here regarding Chicago schools- No one wants schools closed. Educators want to be in the classroom with students, where they learn best. We do that through working together to roll out testing, masking, and vaccination\u2014and most major districts have done it.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Randi Weingarten (@rweingarten) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rweingarten\/status\/1478742235298549763?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEducators want to be in the classroom with students, where they learn best,\u201d Weingarten claimed. \u201cWe do that through working together to roll out testing, masking, and vaccination\u2014and most major districts have done it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNYC and LA have instituted rigorous testing programs to catch asymptomatic COVID spread in its tracks &amp; keep educators, students, and their communities safe,\u201d she added. \u201cMayor Lightfoot should be moving heaven and earth to get it right in Chicago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUntil this surge, virtually all public schools were open for in person learning,\u201d Weingarten continued. \u201cWe got it right for most of this current school year; now the adults have to work together and double down to get it right as we confront this surge. Omicron\u2019s the enemy not each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur kids, our families, our communities and our educators, who have been herculean deserve no less,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our kids, our families, our communities and our educators, who have been herculean deserve no less<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Randi Weingarten (@rweingarten) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rweingarten\/status\/1478742241925648386?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Weingarten\u2019s tweets indicate that the CTU, which is affiliated with the AFT, won\u2019t be backing down anytime soon. But, it also reveals that Weingarten could be engaging in some revisionist history regarding the role that public teachers unions and their members played during this pandemic, as 73% of CTU\u2019s 25,000-plus members voted to reject in-person learning on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>As for Chicago teachers\u2019 efforts, readers should remember that last year at this time, an educator who is on the executive board of the Chicago Teachers Union urged special education teachers to refuse to return to work because it would be unsafe. But, then just hours after stating that, she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/teacher-on-exec-board-of-chicago-teachers-union-tells-teachers-to-stay-home\">was busted for vacationing<\/a> after posting a photo on Instagram of a pool in Puerto Rico captioned, \u201cSpending the last day of 2020 by the poolside.\u201d She was criticized for saying its too dangerous to work in person,&nbsp; but not too dangerous to travel thousands of miles away.<\/p>\n<p>And as Weingarten was attacking a typical ally of the teachers union in Lightfoot, several Leftists on Twitter were <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidNorthWSWS\/status\/1478783818190540806\">slamming<\/a> Weingarten for her claim that teachers wanted to be in school.<\/p>\n<p>In all, the left is now eating their own as the Democratic Party tries to shift gears during an election year to have a sense of normalcy before midterms. If these intra-Leftist fights continue while children suffer, it can only help Republicans who promise to fight teachers unions, bring about school choice, and end COVID-19 mandates.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten said on Wednesday that Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) should be \u201cmoving heaven and Earth\u201d to make Chicago schools safer for educators amidst the spread of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. 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