{"id":1451009,"date":"2022-04-22T18:14:41","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T22:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1451009"},"modified":"2022-04-22T18:14:44","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T22:14:44","slug":"teachers-union-president-slams-changes-in-education-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/teachers-union-president-slams-changes-in-education-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Teachers Union President Slams Changes In Education Laws"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fteachers-union-president-slams-changes-in-education-laws%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=1451009&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/D5A959F0-43D6-4ECE-8BCC-0FA5934F3892_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers union, spoke about conservative movements to put parents back in control of classroom dialogue in a recent interview.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Appearing on The Rick Smith <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RdbdeRk4B6o&#038;ab_channel=TheRickSmithShow\"><span class=\"s1\">Show<\/span><\/a>, Weingarten blasted those who are pushing for changes to classroom structure, especially after the pandemic, saying, \u201cInstead of everybody joining together in America to get us out of the effects of the pandemic \u2026 these right-wing ideologues are just trying to create fear and anxiety and anger exploiting the fear that parents already have in order to win elections and end public education as we know it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cIt\u2019s unconscionable,\u201d she added.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The host, Rick Smith, noted that he has children and \u201cknow[s] the teachers,\u201d going on to claim that \u201cnone of the stuff that they\u2019re telling us happened. The stuff on CRT [Critical Race Theory] wasn\u2019t going on, the indoctrination that they\u2019re telling us is rampant \u2026 there\u2019s this bogeyman that they\u2019ve created that nobody is experiencing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/desantis-signs-parental-notification-bill-shrugs-off-dont-say-gay-uproar\"><span class=\"s1\">reported<\/span><\/a>, Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) signed Florida\u2019s Parental Rights in Education bill in March, which banned classroom talk about gender identity and sexual orientation for small children.<\/p>\n<p>Weingarten also appeared to reference <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/aclu-sues-abbott-over-directive-to-investigate-transgender-procedures-as-child-abuse\">attempts<\/a> in Texas to investigate sex reassignment procedures in children, saying, \u201cImagine if you had a trans kid right now and you were in Texas, and you were trying to protect your kid and the Lieutenant Governor was \u2026 trying to bring you up on charges because you were protecting your kid. How is that parental rights?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Weingarten went on, \u201cImagine if you\u2019re a Jewish parent, you know, son or daughter of a Holocaust survivor,\u201d and the district stops teaching Maus, a graphic novel about the Holocaust that was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/27\/us\/maus-banned-holocaust-tennessee.html\"><span class=\"s1\">declared<\/span><\/a> inappropriate by a school board in Tennessee earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Weingarten suggested that it would be better for children to learn about genocide in a classroom setting rather than seeing genocide occurring in Ukraine on television.<\/p>\n<p>Smith brought up how he knows some people who don\u2019t believe the atrocities in Ukraine are real, and Weingarten responded, \u201cIt\u2019s this notion \u2013 we\u2019ve been very lucky in America, and we in some ways live in a bubble for a long time. This is propaganda. This is misinformation. This is the way in which wars start. This is the way in which hatred starts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThis is why they go after educators,\u201d she added. \u201cWhat we are trying to do is make sure that, you know, we educate kids, we keep them safe, we keep them welcome, and we help them learn how to think \u2014 not what to think, but how to think \u2014 and have the tools so they can discern between fact and fiction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Weingarten claimed that approach scares \u201cextremists who don\u2019t want kids to know how to think, they don\u2019t want kids to empathize with the other, with people who may be different, but that is how America gets better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWe are in an existential threat race against not only the effects of the pandemic but also these right-wing extremists who are trying to exploit people\u2019s agitation for their own political purposes,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cThat\u2019s why they\u2019re book-banning. That\u2019s why they\u2019re going after the teaching of racism, sexism, the Holocaust. That\u2019s why they are trying to silence and put back into the closet people who may be gay or trans,\u201d she added.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Earlier this week, Weingarten <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/randi-weingarten-parental-rights-bills-the-way-in-which-wars-start\"><span class=\"s1\">said<\/span><\/a> in a statement to Fox News, \u201cEducators welcome parent involvement in schools because our kids do best when teachers, parents and caregivers work together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWe have a lot to do to help kids recover and thrive this year after two years of an unprecedented pandemic. So rather than help us help our kids socially, academically and emotionally, these vocal minorities want to marginalize LGBTQ kids, censor teachers and ban books,\u201d she added.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Weingarten\u2019s pushback to the Florida bill don\u2019t appear to align with the views of many Americans.<\/p>\n<p>A recent Golden\/TIPP poll was completed on April 8, and discovered that 57% of Americans agreed with the Florida bill, with only 31% saying they disagreed, per The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/another-poll-finds-most-americans-oppose-teaching-k-3-children-about-sexual-orientation-transgender-issues\"><span class=\"s1\">reporting<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. 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