{"id":1921161,"date":"2023-04-29T04:56:31","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T08:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/randi-weingarten-is-gaslighting-us-she-fought-to-keep-schools-closed-not-open\/"},"modified":"2023-04-29T04:59:46","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T08:59:46","slug":"randi-weingarten-is-gaslighting-us-she-fought-to-keep-schools-closed-not-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/randi-weingarten-is-gaslighting-us-she-fought-to-keep-schools-closed-not-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Randi Weingarten Is Gaslighting Us. She Fought To Keep Schools Closed, Not Open."},"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\">26<\/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%2Frandi-weingarten-is-gaslighting-us-she-fought-to-keep-schools-closed-not-open%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=1921161&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>Teachers Union Boss Claims She Fought to Reopen Schools During Pandemic<\/h2>\n<p>The president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), Randi Weingarten, is facing criticism for claiming that she fought to reopen schools during the pandemic. However, the reality is that her union aggressively pushed to keep schools closed, making unscientific demands about safety. <\/p>\n<p>Back in July 2020, Weingarten called the Trump administration\u2019s plan to reopen schools in the fall \u201creckless,\u201d \u201ccallous,\u201d and \u201ccruel.\u201d She even declared that \u201cnothing is off the table\u201d for the teachers union to get their demands, including teacher strikes. <\/p>\n<p>Despite CDC data showing that children had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/boj-board-agreed-must-be-vigilant-to-sharp-yen-moves-july-minutes\/\" title=\"BOJ board agreed must be vigilant to sharp yen moves \u2013 July minutes\">extremely low rates<\/a> of hospitalization or death from COVID, teachers unions, more than COVID infection rates, were driving the decisions to keep schools closed. Even as late as 2022, the Chicago Teachers Union, which is affiliated with the AFT, pushed for a return to remote learning in the country\u2019s third<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cdc-schools-can-reopen-safely-without-vaccinating-teachers-against-covid-19\/\" title=\"CDC: Schools Can Reopen Safely Without Vaccinating Teachers Against COVID-19\">-largest school district<\/a>, resulting in classes being canceled for five days. <\/p>\n<h3>Revisionist History<\/h3>\n<p>Weingarten is now trying to revise history by claiming that she \u201ctried to do everything we could to reopen schools safely.\u201d This is four-dimensional gaslighting. Weingarten is trying to misrepresent her prior positions and her words are not representative of her actions. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">this is a lie. delete your account. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KcQXRqUBkX\">https:\/\/t.co\/KcQXRqUBkX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist (@DeAngelisCorey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeAngelisCorey\/status\/1651963234042404864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 28, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On both Wednesday and Thursday, Weingarten tweeted out a video of selective, spliced-together clips of her saying she \u201cwants\u201d to reopen schools. However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-confronted-on-why-biden-still-wears-masks-indoors-around-vaccinated-people\/\" title=\"White House confronted on why Biden still wears masks indoors around vaccinated people\">critics quickly pointed<\/a> out that Weingarten has misrepresented her prior positions and her \u201cwords are not representative of her actions.\u201d <\/p>\n<h3>Angry Parent and Republican Lawmakers<\/h3>\n<p>Weingarten appeared before a House panel on the COVID pandemic where she was skewered by irate Republican lawmakers. \u201cThe effect on children has been vast and to have no remorse on closing schools and keeping them closed for the length of time is unconscionable,\u201d said Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA), a medical doctor and the former director of Iowa\u2019s health department. <\/p>\n<p>Later on Thursday evening, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/randi-weingarten-is-gaslighting-us-she-fought-to-keep-schools-closed-not-open\/\" title=\"Randi Weingarten Is Gaslighting Us. She Fought To Keep Schools Closed, Not Open.\">union boss appeared<\/a> on CNN, normally a friendly environment for her, and was destroyed by an angry parent on the panel. \u201cI think you\u2019ll find that most parents believe you were the tip of the spear of school closures,\u201d said CNN commentator Scott Jennings, adding that he has four children at home including two with \u201clearning differences.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s time for teachers unions to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/this-is-all-political-desantis-slams-biden-for-allegedly-allowing-illegal-aliens-into-u-s-without-covid-test-while-considering-domestic-travel-restrictions\/\" title=\"\u2018This Is All Political\u2019: DeSantis Slams Biden For Allegedly Allowing Illegal Aliens Into U.S. Without COVID Test While Considering Domestic Travel Restrictions\">stop playing politics<\/a> with our children\u2019s education and prioritize their well-being. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teachers union boss\u00a0Randi Weingarten is taking heat for bizarrely claiming that she fought to reopen schools during the pandemic. She did the exact opposite. Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the second largest teacher\u2019s labor union in America, now\u00a0claims she \u201ctried to do everything we could to reopen schools safely.\u201d This is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":1921162,"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":[5218,6604,14806,3797,25300,3735,9029,25233],"class_list":["post-1921161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-closed","tag-fought","tag-gaslighting","tag-open","tag-randi","tag-schools","tag-us","tag-weingarten"],"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\/1921161","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\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1921161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1921162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1921161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1921161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1921161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}