{"id":1920808,"date":"2023-04-28T10:56:41","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T14:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/you-were-the-tip-of-the-spear-conservative-dad-confronts-teachers-union-boss-over-school-closures-in-viral-video\/"},"modified":"2023-04-28T11:00:40","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T15:00:40","slug":"you-were-the-tip-of-the-spear-conservative-dad-confronts-teachers-union-boss-over-school-closures-in-viral-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/you-were-the-tip-of-the-spear-conservative-dad-confronts-teachers-union-boss-over-school-closures-in-viral-video\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You Were The Tip Of The Spear\u2019: Conservative Dad Confronts Teachers Union Boss Over School Closures In Viral Video"},"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\">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%2Fyou-were-the-tip-of-the-spear-conservative-dad-confronts-teachers-union-boss-over-school-closures-in-viral-video%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=1920808&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--><h2>Former Bush Official Confronts Teachers Union Boss Over School Closures<\/h2>\n<p>A conservative father and former Bush administration official confronted teachers union boss Randi Weingarten Thursday over her claim that she worked to reopen schools during the COVID pandemic, telling the labor leader during a live CNN panel discussion that parents know better.<\/p>\n<h3>The Tense Moment<\/h3>\n<p>The tense moment came on \u201cCNN Tonight,\u201d as Scott Jennings, former deputy director of political affairs for President George W. Bush, appeared with Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) on a panel moderated by CNN\u2019s Alisyn Camerota. Weingarten insisted that the\u00a0AFT \u201cwanted to reopen schools more fulsomely,\u201d and \u201cknew schools needed to be open.\u201d A dumbfounded Jennings called Weingarten out on the spot.<\/p>\n<h3>Parents Know Better<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t know each other, but speaking on behalf of millions of American parents, I have four at home,\u201d Jennings said. \u201cI had to teach them at home; my wife had to teach them at home. I am stunned at what you have said this week about your claiming to have wanted to reopen schools. I think you\u2019ll find that most parents believe you were the tip of the spear of school closures.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Revising History<\/h3>\n<p>Jennings accused Weingarten of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/orwells-1984-to-get-feminist-rewrite\/\" title=\"Orwell\u2019s \u20181984\u2019 To Get Feminist Rewrite\">revising history<\/a>, and her own role in the school shutdowns that began in the spring of 2020 and, by some accounts, set American school children back as they struggled to keep up with their studies online. Weingarten\u2019s advocacy for school closures, ostensibly to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/teachers-union-goes-to-war-with-adam-carolla-after-he-calls-them-cowards\/\" title=\"Teachers\u2019 Union Goes To War With Adam Carolla After He Calls Them Cowards\">protect teachers<\/a> from COVID, is well documented, he said.<\/p>\n<h3>Generational Damage<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cThere are numerous statements you made over the summer of \u201920 scaring people to death about the possibility of opening schools,\u201d Jennings said. \u201cAnd I hear no remorse whatsoever about the generational damage that\u2019s been done to these \u2014 I have two kids with learning differences. Do you know how hard it is for them to learn at home and not in a classroom that was designed for them?\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Millions of Parents Feel the Same Way<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cAnd for you to sit in front of Congress and the American people and say, \u2018Oh, I wanted to open up the whole time,\u2019 I am shocked. I\u2019m stunned. I\u2019m stunned. And there are millions of parents who feel the exact same way,\u201d Jennings stated.<\/p>\n<h3>Weingarten&#8217;s Response<\/h3>\n<p>Weingarten, who earlier this week told the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic she couldn\u2019t remember key details of her union\u2019s discussions with the Biden Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about school closures, insisted that she had sought to balance reopening schools with the safety of her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/insulting-labor-unions-that-endorsed-biden-now-lashing-out-at-him\/\" title=\"\u201cInsulting\u201d- Labor Unions That Endorsed Biden Now Lashing Out At Him\">union members<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Records Obtained by Conservative Watchdog<\/h3>\n<p>Records, obtained by conservative watchdog Americans for Public Trust, revealed Weingarten spoke twice with CDC Director Rochelle Walensky in the days leading up to the CDC releasing in February 2021 updated guidance on reopening schools. But those talks only came after researchers began to find that schools were not major spreaders of COVID. Further, in the two years since, studies have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/you-were-the-tip-of-the-spear-conservative-dad-confronts-teachers-union-boss-over-school-closures-in-viral-video\/\" title=\"\u2018You Were The Tip Of The Spear\u2019: Conservative Dad Confronts Teachers Union Boss Over School Closures In Viral Video\">shown profound negative effects<\/a> from prolonged remote learning, including on children\u2019s well-being and academic accomplishments.<\/p>\n<h3>The New York Post Editorial Board&#8217;s Take<\/h3>\n<p>On Wednesday, The New York Post editorial board noted that Weingarten was a driving force behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-would-rather-kids-die-than-stand-up-to-teachers-unions\/\" title=\"Democrats Would Rather Kids Die Than Stand Up To Teachers Unions\">keeping schools closed<\/a> for more than a year in some areas.<\/p>\n<h3>Weingarten&#8217;s Controversial Statement<\/h3>\n<p>In February 2021, in an interview with Axios, Weingarten said in reference to children who had been out of school for months, \u201cKids are resilient and kids will recover.\u201d When asked if there could be a point at which schoolchildren kids have been out of in-person school for so long that the damage cannot be fixed, Weingarten answered \u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A conservative father and former Bush administration official confronted teachers union boss Randi Weingarten\u00a0Thursday over her claim that she worked to reopen schools during the COVID pandemic, telling the labor leader during a live CNN panel discussion that parents know better. The tense moment came on \u201cCNN Tonight,\u201d as Scott Jennings, former deputy director of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1920809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[8650,4879,6779,4914,13346,3924,25363,4605,4701,4440,6143,6540],"class_list":["post-1920808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-boss","tag-closures","tag-confronts","tag-conservative","tag-dad","tag-school","tag-spear","tag-teachers","tag-union","tag-video","tag-viral","tag-you"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920808","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\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1920808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1920809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1920808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1920808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1920808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}