{"id":1255633,"date":"2022-01-30T07:54:12","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T12:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1255633"},"modified":"2022-01-30T07:54:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T12:54:21","slug":"racists-are-showing-up-in-droves-to-school-board-meetings-teachers-union-prez-weingarten-quotes-wapo-opinion-piece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/racists-are-showing-up-in-droves-to-school-board-meetings-teachers-union-prez-weingarten-quotes-wapo-opinion-piece\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Racists \u2026 Are Showing Up In Droves To School Board Meetings\u2019: Teachers Union Prez Weingarten Quotes WaPo Opinion Piece"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/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%2Fracists-are-showing-up-in-droves-to-school-board-meetings-teachers-union-prez-weingarten-quotes-wapo-opinion-piece%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=1255633&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>Quoting an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/01\/28\/virginias-new-lost-cause\/\">opinion piece<\/a> in The Washington Post by a former Virginia Secretary of Education, Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, the second largest teacher\u2019s union in America, tweeted, \u201cRacists \u2026 are showing up in droves to school board meetings, threatening members and superintendents with recalls, firing \u2014 and worse. It is dangerous. It is divisive. It is un-American. As Virginians, let us remember our history and not repeat the errors of our past.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Randi Weingarten deleted this tweet <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uiurFjYy0K\">pic.twitter.com\/uiurFjYy0K<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Corey A. DeAngelis (@DeAngelisCorey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeAngelisCorey\/status\/1487488996611657728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 29, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the actual quote from the opinion piece by Atif Qarni does not state at the beginning \u201cRacists\u201d but \u201cRacist parents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Weingarten later deleted the tweet.<\/p>\n<p>In the opinion piece, Qami ripped Virginia GOP governor Glenn Youngkin, writing that he had \u201copenly declared war on Virginia\u2019s public education system.\u201d He continued, \u201c\u2026 with CRT, Youngkin has manufactured a crisis in K-12 education that does not exist. In this fictitious narrative, he is the hero, teachers and school boards are the villains, White children are the victims, and racist parents are his foot soldiers. Youngkin established a tip line to report public school educators teaching \u2018divisive concepts.\u2019 This is the new Red Scare.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Qami concluded, \u201cI am most concerned that Youngkin\u2019s administration is stoking the fires of racial discontent, eerily reminiscent of the 1950s, and waging war on sacred ground, the public school classroom. Racist parents are showing up in droves to school board meetings, threatening members and superintendents with recalls, firing \u2014 and worse. It is dangerous. It is divisive. It is un-American. As Virginians, let us remember our history and not repeat the errors of our past.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The night before last November\u2019s Virginia election in which Youngkin defeated Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe, Weingarten appeared with McAuliffe at a rally.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AFTunion?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AFTunion<\/a> President <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rweingarten?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@rweingarten<\/a> is speaking at McAuliffe\u2019s rally now <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/vagov?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#vagov<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Kj2C55Iw5X\">pic.twitter.com\/Kj2C55Iw5X<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Julia Manchester (@JuliaManch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JuliaManch\/status\/1455315323549257732?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 1, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In May 2021, Fox News\u2019 Martha MacCallum <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/must-watch-foxs-maccallum-blisters-national-teachers-union-president-on-alleged-influence-on-biden-critical-race-theory-1619-project\/\">asked<\/a> Weingarten, \u201cYou have said that we quoted you on the way to the break that you know that there\u2019s that this is a factual finding the 1619 report that was put together in The New York Times that now has been converted to learning materials that are in classrooms, and are parts of curriculums. Do you believe that 1619 is a factual program?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Weingarten answered, \u201cSo, Martha, I believe that I\u2019m a history teacher, and I\u2019m a social studies teacher. And I believe we should teach history. And from everything I can see and understand from the data I see 1619 was the year that the first slave boat came from Africa to the United States. So that\u2019s a point in history that I think we should be teaching.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MacCallum later asked, \u201cSo I am asking you, as you say you\u2019re a social studies teacher, do you favor teaching students that 1619 is more important than 1776? Do you favor that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Weingarten replied, \u201cI favor us teaching about 1776, which I have often done, I favor us teaching about 1619. \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In February 2021, in an <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/national-teachers-union-president-dismisses-effects-of-school-lockdowns\/\">interview<\/a> with Axios, Weingarten said in reference to children who have been out of school for months, \u201ckids are resilient and kids will recover.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Axios\u2019 Dan Primack asked, \u201cIs there a point \u2014 and maybe you think we\u2019re already past it \u2014 is there a point in which kids have been out of in-person school for so long that the education that they\u2019ve lost isn\u2019t really recoverable, that the third grade, the fourth grade, the kindergarten they lost, they can take extra semesters in the summer; they can do [that], but it can\u2019t really be fixed?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo,\u201d said Weingarten, whose union is&nbsp;the second largest teacher\u2019s union in America, representing 1.7 million teachers. \u201cI don\u2019t believe that. I believe that kids are resilient and kids will recover. But we as adults have to meet their needs. Their emotional needs, their social needs, their learning needs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd that\u2019s who America\u2019s educators are,\u201d she said. \u201cThat\u2019s who America\u2019s bus drivers are. That\u2019s who America\u2019s paraprofessionals are. That\u2019s who America\u2019s food service workers are. And we are pained about what has happened in this pandemic. The crises that have enveloped our kids, our communities, ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut at the end of the day, we have to believe that this is recoverable,\u201d she added. \u201cAnd we have to believe that virtually all our kids will thrive with the opportunities that we\u2019ve put before them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>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 <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quoting an opinion piece in The Washington Post by a former Virginia Secretary of Education, Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, the second largest teachers\u2019 union in America, tweeted, \u201cRacists \u2026 are showing up in droves to school board meetings, threatening members and superintendents with recalls, firing \u2014 and worse. 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