{"id":1682002,"date":"2022-10-10T15:19:47","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T19:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1682002"},"modified":"2022-10-10T15:20:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T19:20:03","slug":"just-what-we-need-live-military-updates-from-teachers-union-prez-randi-weingarten-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/just-what-we-need-live-military-updates-from-teachers-union-prez-randi-weingarten-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Just What We Need, Live Military Updates From Teachers Union Prez Randi Weingarten In Ukraine"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fjust-what-we-need-live-military-updates-from-teachers-union-prez-randi-weingarten-in-ukraine%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=1682002&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>For reasons unexplained, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/randi-weingarten\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Federation of Teachers union chief Randi Weingarten<\/a> announced Monday morning that she would be heading to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/bazooka-joe-bidens-endless-military-supply-for-ukraine-is-a-sight-to-behold\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukrainian<\/a> border to \u201cassess\u201d\u00a0 the damage after Russia bombarded the Eastern European nation.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Woke up this am to reports of disgusting Russian missile strikes in Kyiv, Lviv &#038; other cities.Heading to the border now to assess the situation. This Russian attempt to frighten civilians &#038; the effect on children (who are learning online today) is why this \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 trip is so important <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dUVOxsdwRQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/dUVOxsdwRQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Randi Weingarten \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83d\udcaa\ud83c\udfff\ud83d\udc69\u200d\ud83c\udf93 (@rweingarten) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rweingarten\/status\/1579414707949096960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What does this union boss and Democratic crony have to do with Ukraine\u2019s war effort? Well, it\u2019s hard to say, but Weingarten claims she\u2019s there to help the kids and their teachers.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, after the learning loss created by government lockdowns in response to COVID, it is doubtful that most American schoolchildren could point out where Europe is on a map, let alone Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>That tragedy was inflicted thanks to folks like Weingarten, who practically kept teachers and kids out of the classroom as long as possible. In turn, literacy rates have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realcleareducation.com\/articles\/2022\/09\/14\/parents_can_leave_the_failing_public_school_system_110765.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plummeted<\/a>, math skills dropped, and depression has risen among students. American families are now dealing with the consequences, and an entire generation\u2019s academic progress has been stunted.<\/p>\n<p>Since the pandemic, public education has only worsened. Daniel McGrath, the acting associate commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realcleareducation.com\/articles\/2022\/09\/14\/parents_can_leave_the_failing_public_school_system_110765.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recently stated<\/a> that America\u2019s school children have experienced\u00a0 \u201csome of the largest declines we have observed in a single assessment cycle in 50 years\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, Weingarten says she was invited to Ukraine as \u201cpart of the global labor movement\u2019s commitment to assist the region\u2019s educators in standing up for freedom and democracy while keeping refugee kids learning in perilous times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs Putin tries to take a blowtorch to democracy, we stand in solidarity with the educators, students and families in Ukraine,\u201d Weingarten said in a press release. \u201cThey are fighting against Russian aggression to uphold their democracy, their freedom, and their self-determination\u2014and after nearly eight months of conflict their righteous resistance grows stronger each day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Weingarten added that the war on Ukrainian families with school-aged children has \u201cbeen brutal\u201d while praising \u201cUkrainian teachers\u2019 persistence, compassion, and bravery in helping students continue their learning in an active war zone should be lifted up and championed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those Ukrainian teachers should take the compliment with a grain of salt.<\/p>\n<p>Weingarten also championed American school teachers during the pandemic, praising them for supposed bravery. Of course, thanks to remote learning, such teachers could go practically wherever they wanted. In fact, a Chicago Teacher\u2019s Union board member was busted after taking a posh vacation to the Caribbean while Chicago schools stayed closed.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps Weingarten will advise Ukrainian teachers to push for virtual schools. After all, if COVID was too dangerous for American teachers to travel in person, certainly a warzone is too dangerous for Ukrainian teachers.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe Weingarten will trash school choice in Ukraine as she does here at home. Maybe she will try to unionize Kyiv teachers. Come to think of it, are school teachers forced to pay union fees funding Weingarten\u2019s trip overseas? Maybe she\u2019ll bring back an \u201cI Heart Zelenksy\u201d tee shirt for one lucky union member.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Actually, perhaps it is best she just stays in Ukraine. She can do less damage to the American public education system from there.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/teachers-union-prez-tries-to-school-desantis-but-shes-the-one-who-needs-a-history-lesson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RELATED: Teachers Union Prez Tries To \u2018School\u2019 DeSantis \u2014 But She\u2019s The One Who Needs A History Lesson<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For reasons unexplained, American Federation of Teachers union chief Randi Weingarten announced Monday morning that she would be heading to the Ukrainian border to \u201cassess\u201d\u00a0 the damage after Russia bombarded the Eastern European nation. Woke up this am to reports of disgusting Russian missile strikes in Kyiv, Lviv &#038; other cities.Heading to the border now &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":504347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1682002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1682002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1682002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1682002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1682002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}