{"id":184166,"date":"2021-03-01T09:45:37","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T14:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=184166"},"modified":"2021-03-01T09:45:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T14:45:42","slug":"watch-its-a-pathetic-failure-of-leadership-to-not-stand-up-for-these-kids-desantis-blasts-biden-on-subservience-to-teachers-unions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-its-a-pathetic-failure-of-leadership-to-not-stand-up-for-these-kids-desantis-blasts-biden-on-subservience-to-teachers-unions\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: \u2018It\u2019s A Pathetic Failure Of Leadership To Not Stand Up For These Kids\u2019: DeSantis Blasts Biden On Subservience To Teachers\u2019 Unions"},"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\">44<\/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%2Fwatch-its-a-pathetic-failure-of-leadership-to-not-stand-up-for-these-kids-desantis-blasts-biden-on-subservience-to-teachers-unions%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=184166&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:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GettyImages-1219423476.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Speaking on Fox News\u2019 \u201cLife, Liberty and Levin\u201d with host Mark Levin on Sunday, Florida GOP governor Ron DeSantis took aim at President Biden regarding his policies on school closures, charging, \u201cIt\u2019s a pathetic failure of leadership to not stand up for these kids and for these families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Levin prompted DeSantis by saying: \u201cHere\u2019s my concern: Florida is not some little state like Delaware where the president comes from, no offense. It is a massive state with a diverse population. You\u2019ve got metropolitan areas; you\u2019ve got suburban areas; you\u2019ve got rural areas; you\u2019ve got people pouring into your state every day to move there; you\u2019ve got a huge school system in Florida.\u00a0Well, isn\u2019t that a perfect example?\u00a0Look at what\u2019s going on in Florida. No, there isn\u2019t a massive outbreak of the virus in the classrooms with the teachers or the students.\u00a0That\u2019s the data.\u00a0That\u2019s reality.\u00a0Look at California. The whole damn thing is shut down.\u00a0Look at New York. The whole damn thing is shut down.\u00a0Isn\u2019t this common sense at this point?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout question. and the numbers are very clear if you look at the pediatric cases up to (age) 17,\u201d DeSantis replied. \u201cCalifornia per capita is higher than Florida, and they\u2019ve had schools closed.\u00a0And I think the reason is, is when kids do get infected, it\u2019s usually not in school.\u00a0It\u2019s usually in the community.\u00a0So having them do virtual [learning] doesn\u2019t solve that problem at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo the evidence is very clear at this point, Mark,\u201d DeSantis continued. \u201cThis is just purely being subservient to a special interest and Biden has been one of the worst in it, because when he says, \u2018My goal is to get 50% of the schools in person in 100 days,\u2019 we\u2019ve already had that. His goal should have been yesterday to get everybody back in school, but he can\u2019t do that because he doesn\u2019t want to upset the teachers\u2019 unions.\u00a0It\u2019s a pathetic failure of leadership to not stand up for these kids and for these families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd you know, Mark, the kids that are the most impacted and the families that are the most impacted are the low income, blue collar middle class kids,\u201d DeSantis added. \u201cThe wealthy sons and daughters of, say, elected officials and other powerful people, they\u2019re sending their kids in person in private schools, but they\u2019re not affording that right to the folks who need to go to the public school system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked by Levin what was the data on people moving to Florida during the pandemic, DeSantis replied: \u201cI think it\u2019s getting hard to keep track of because it\u2019s just happening at such a fast clip.\u00a0And these are folks \u2014 people want to move their businesses here, people want to retire here, as always, but they\u2019re wanting to do that at faster clips \u2014 but, Mark, we had families move just because our schools were open, because maybe their son played football and you couldn\u2019t play football in the lockdown states.\u00a0Maybe they just needed to get the kids in the classroom. So there was a whole host of reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued: \u201cWhen people come from lockdown states, they remark about people in Florida are just happier.\u00a0It\u2019s a much more vibrant society, and I think the lockdowns have really a done a lot of damage in terms of psychology and mental health in some of those places.\u00a0They\u2019ll be people that\u2019ll visit here who can\u2019t believe we have schools open or can\u2019t believe we are playing football or basketball or all these other things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis said some people had compared arriving in Florida from a lockdown state to fleeing from behind the former Iron Curtain to the West: \u201cSome have even said, it\u2019s kind of like you\u2019re landing in West Berlin from coming, because it\u2019s so much different.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>A native of Florida, DeSantis was recruited by Yale University where he played baseball for four years, then attended Harvard Law school before being commissioned in the Navy as a Navy JAG officer. Serving stateside and then in Iraq, he segued to serving as a federal prosecutor before being elected to Congress in 2012 before his election as governor in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=ejBEVT1j_2E&#038;start=898\">https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=ejBEVT1j_2E&amp;start=898<\/a>\n<\/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. 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