{"id":1767406,"date":"2022-12-08T06:30:17","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T11:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1767406"},"modified":"2022-12-08T09:48:28","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T14:48:28","slug":"mike-pompeo-says-teachers-union-boss-the-most-dangerous-person-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-pompeo-says-teachers-union-boss-the-most-dangerous-person-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Pompeo Says Teachers\u2019 Union Boss the \u201cMost Dangerous Person in America\u201d"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fmike-pompeo-says-teachers-union-boss-the-most-dangerous-person-in-america%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=1767406&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><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Randi-Weingarten-750x420-1.webp\" class=\"singular-image entry-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Randi-Weingarten-750x420-1.webp 750w, https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Randi-Weingarten-300x169.jpg 300w\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Former CIA Director and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo certainly knows a thing or two about America\u2019s most dangerous enemies. Without downplaying the very serious threats to our national security posed by China, Russia, and Iran, Mr. Pompeo focused on the enemy that is eroding our values and destroying our future from within. \u201cI fear America is on a path to disintegration due to persistent failures in our education system,\u201d he wrote in in <a href=\"https:\/\/na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnypost.com%2F2022%2F11%2F29%2Fpompeo-yes-randi-weingarten-is-the-most-dangerous-person-in-america-heres-why%2F&#038;data=05%7C01%7C%7Ce5d699192b6545b3b92808dad649e1fa%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638057910058385490%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&#038;sdata=72bNmFGdqOQsG4bOyFu2jilHv%2Brey11O3EmPnQ2gpe8%3D&#038;reserved=0\">op ed article<\/a> for the <em>New York Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Pompeo pointed to \u201cAmerican Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten and her fellow travelers\u201d as personifying the \u201cradical and progressive forces\u201d who are crippling this nation\u2019s schools. In fact, he went so far as to call Ms. Weingarten \u201cthe most dangerous person in America,\u201d after having previously referred to her as the most dangerous person in the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEducation is the key that unlocks the golden door to freedom,\u201d said George Washington Carver. \u201cThe goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth,\u201d said President John F. Kennedy.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Weingarten has been the most outspoken teachers\u2019 union leader promoting the destructive educational policies that have been foisted on our public schools. These policies have literally closed the school door shut and replaced the dissemination of truth with indoctrination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFailing to teach math, science, real history and civics and, importantly, to imprint America as the most exceptional nation in civilizational history on the hearts and minds of the next generation,\u201d Mr. Pompeo wrote, \u201cdooms America and the world that counts on us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Weingarten wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnypost.com%2F2022%2F12%2F02%2Frandi-weingarten-debate-no-mike-pompeo-tour-a-school-with-me-and-see-what-teachers-really-do%2F&#038;data=05%7C01%7C%7Ce5d699192b6545b3b92808dad649e1fa%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638057910058385490%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&#038;sdata=5lNbOG4ujgMqtEEPO88mUpN2r6YnAdAkHYEYiPYhQUk%3D&#038;reserved=0\">rebuttal<\/a> to Mike Pompeo\u2019s article, which the <em>New York Post<\/em> published online December 2nd. The union boss declared that \u201cteachers will not be a prop for his pathetic ambitions.\u201d She accused Mr. Pompeo of \u201cshilling for special interests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Weingarten is the shiller-in-chief for one of the most politically influential special interests in the country. She and her fellow teachers\u2019 union bosses pretend they care about the nation\u2019s public-school students. But their actions prove the opposite. With the help of Democratic Party government officials, whom the teachers\u2019 unions have in their pockets, the unions have blocked vital in-person learning for kids during COVID, even long after there was no-science based reason for doing so.<\/p>\n<p>Weingarten\u2019s union, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), for example, successfully persuaded the Biden administration\u2019s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to incorporate language the AFT wanted in the final version of the CDC\u2019s February 2021 school-reopening guidance. The language that made its way into the final text set forth exceptions requested by the AFT to a full return to in-person learning in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>AFT senior director for health issues, <a href=\"https:\/\/na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnypost.com%2F2021%2F05%2F01%2Fteachers-union-collaborated-with-cdc-on-school-reopening-emails%2F&#038;data=05%7C01%7C%7Ce5d699192b6545b3b92808dad649e1fa%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638057910058385490%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&#038;sdata=TyHOLNdw0InXOnkiHZ7AQye%2BCeeEV6pdFjJ%2BpPIKc20%3D&#038;reserved=0\">Kelly Trautner, wrote an e-mail to the CDC<\/a> before the guidance\u2019s release thanking the CDC for its \u201copenness to the suggestions made by our president, Randi Weingarten, and the AFT.\u201d In an e-mail that Ms. Trautner sent directly to CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky, she praised the CDC Director for \u201cyour genuine desire to earn our confidence and your committment (sic) to partnership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since when is a government public health agency that is supposed to offer its health guidelines based solely on scientific findings trying to earn the \u201cconfidence\u201d of a non-scientific special interest lobbying group? And since when did the AFT and the CDC enter into a \u201cpartnership?\u201d Since President Biden came into office? Most likely.<\/p>\n<p>As Dr. Monica Gandhi, a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, told the <em>New York Post<\/em>, \u201cThis is not how science-based guidelines should work or be put together.\u201d Dr. Ghandhi is an infection disease specialist and an expert contributor to the work of the COVID Collaborative.<\/p>\n<p>School children have suffered immensely as a result of the teachers\u2019 unions\u2019 reckless disregard for students\u2019 educational needs. Remote learning is a very poor substitute for in-person learning. As a result of the long delay in teachers and students returning to the classroom, reading scores for 9-year-olds dropped the most since 1990. The math score decline was even worse.<\/p>\n<p>But Ms. Weingarten\u2019s cavalier response was not to worry. After all, she said,, \u201ckids are resilient.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We should be plenty worried. Our students are falling behind in learning the basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic. Kids are not resilient enough to make up totally for the two years of lost learning in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>But kids are impressionable, which is just fine for Ms. Weingarten\u2019s teachers\u2019 union. Forget the elementary school reading books that past generations of elementary school students have used successfully. <a href=\"https:\/\/na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aft.org%2Fae%2Fspring2019%2Fhermann-wilmarth_ryan&#038;data=05%7C01%7C%7Ce5d699192b6545b3b92808dad649e1fa%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638057910058385490%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&#038;sdata=PHP2LlMPF4pVzsrKN5b5NVjSNFCj96lEu5O58RCpFUU%3D&#038;reserved=0\">AFT recommends<\/a> that elementary school teachers expose their students to LGBTQ books such as <em>King &#038; King<\/em>, a children\u2019s picture book with an image of two men romantically kissing. Another AFT recommendation is <em>My Princess Boy<\/em>, a children\u2019s picture book about a boy who likes to wear girls\u2019 dresses and tiaras. Its illustrations include faceless human characters, which are certain to confuse children susceptible to suggestion from their teachers who they see as authority figures.<\/p>\n<p>True to form, <a href=\"https:\/\/na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2Fnews%2Farticle-10744345%2FControversial-teachers-union-president-slams-Floridas-Parental-Rights-Education-bill.html&#038;data=05%7C01%7C%7Ce5d699192b6545b3b92808dad649e1fa%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638057910058385490%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&#038;sdata=sf0AJdisUQkGmBec9w6odPf5h8CZ8%2BdF5z47hn4rzG0%3D&#038;reserved=0\">Ms. Weingarten blasted Florida\u2019s Parental Rights in Education law<\/a>. This law protects young children in kindergarten through third grade from being indoctrinated about gender identity and sexual orientation issues in the classroom. Weingarten said that the law would effectively put LGBTQ children \u201cback into the closet.\u201d No, the law would simply empower parents to decide for themselves whether or not they think the books on AFT\u2019s recommended LGBTQ reading list, for example, are suitable for their own children of tender age.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the sensitive issue of race, Ms. Weingarten proudly <a href=\"https:\/\/na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnypost.com%2F2021%2F07%2F08%2Fteachers-union-president-randi-weingarten-defends-critical-race-theory%2F&#038;data=05%7C01%7C%7Ce5d699192b6545b3b92808dad649e1fa%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638057910058385490%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&#038;sdata=5ooJNWm2m9eQF65r%2F7vBllF%2BsQoaLJpd%2BFNQyDH9BFI%3D&#038;reserved=0\">hosted a prominent critical race theory advocate<\/a> and author, Ibram X. Kendi, at the American Federation of Teachers\u2019 TEACH 2021 conference. The AFT has put out its own special edition of <em>Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You<\/em>, a book that Kendi co-authored. This book is a version of critical race theory intended for middle and high school students.<\/p>\n<p>AFT recommended that students read a book entitled <em>All American Boys<\/em>, which AFT said on <a href=\"https:\/\/na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aft.org%2Fae%2Fspring2021%2Fboyd_darragh&#038;data=05%7C01%7C%7Ce5d699192b6545b3b92808dad649e1fa%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638057910058385490%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&#038;sdata=YI0aEnWHL2E13E2FdEOX9VANAuUejHg5H5FDrE77HpY%3D&#038;reserved=0\">one of its webpages<\/a> \u201cis an especially valuable text because it simultaneously tackles white privilege and racial oppression, rather than focusing only on one issue or the other.\u201d AFT also recommended that teachers \u201chelp students discern the systemic nature of racial oppression\u201d and that teachers have their students make lists of \u201cthe benefits and unearned advantages that white individuals experience in our society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AFT has promoted Black Lives Matter at School and endorsed the use of the historically discredited <a href=\"https:\/\/na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.discoverthenetworks.org%2Forganizations%2F1619-project&#038;data=05%7C01%7C%7Ce5d699192b6545b3b92808dad649e1fa%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638057910058385490%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&#038;sdata=2sujuWUjYxjwyfJ%2BDV9KumCKDcR1hS25q5fxBfzxenQ%3D&#038;reserved=0\">1619 Project<\/a> in the classroom. The authors of the 1619 Project sought to push back America\u2019s founding to 1619 from 1776. The first Africans arrived in North America in 1619, leading to the institutionalization of slavery that the authors claim would come to define America as the systemically racist society that it supposedly still is today.<\/p>\n<p>AFT\u2019s president, Randi Weingarten, is leading the charge because <a href=\"https:\/\/na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aft.org%2Fnews%2Fanti-racist-education-benefits-all-us&#038;data=05%7C01%7C%7Ce5d699192b6545b3b92808dad649e1fa%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638057910058385490%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&#038;sdata=ez4VAqMZ4I4LSPe2fRO1jeurg0njkOITgzav7TL%2FPn0%3D&#038;reserved=0\">she believes<\/a> that \u201cAmerica\u2019s professed values\u2014life, liberty, equal justice under the law\u2014have never squared with the lived experiences of many.\u201d Weingarten has ignored the sweeping progress in the civil rights that African Americans have come to enjoy since the 1960\u2019s. Instead, she promotes student lessons that are racially divisive.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Pompeo correctly chastised AFT and its leader, Ms. Weingarten, for blessing the indoctrination that is brainwashing American public-school students. Not only does teaching such left-wing ideology corrode students\u2019 beliefs in America\u2019s founding ideals of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and in its promise for a better future ahead for all. It wastes valuable teaching time. Along with the lengthy school closings pushed by AFT, the result is that America\u2019s students are lagging behind in the skills and knowledge that will be key to winning the global competition in the twenty-first century.<\/p>\n<p>As Mike Pompeo noted, \u201cstudents in China now outscore our children across the board.\u201d Chinese President Xi Jinping\u2019s goal of overtaking the United States is made easier when we allow \u201cWeingarten and her ilk\u201d to continue endangering our public education system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former CIA Director and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo certainly knows a thing or two about America\u2019s most dangerous enemies. 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