{"id":1921163,"date":"2023-04-29T04:57:39","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T08:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/beastmode-conservative-dad-torches-randi-weingarten-over-school-closures\/"},"modified":"2023-04-29T05:00:16","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T09:00:16","slug":"beastmode-conservative-dad-torches-randi-weingarten-over-school-closures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/beastmode-conservative-dad-torches-randi-weingarten-over-school-closures\/","title":{"rendered":"BEASTMODE: Conservative Dad Torches Randi Weingarten Over School Closures"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fbeastmode-conservative-dad-torches-randi-weingarten-over-school-closures%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=1921163&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--><section id=\"article\">\n<article data-post-title=\"BEASTMODE: Conservative Dad Torches Randi Weingarten Over School Closures\" data-post-slug=\"http:\/\/fact-check-climate-activists-who-smeared-paint-on-priceless-sculpture-insist-we-are-adults\" data-post-url id=\"print-1724967\">\n<div>\n<h2>Conservative Dad Calls Out National Teachers&#8217; Union Chief<\/h2>\n<p>Scott Jennings, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-shocked-gina-carano-fought-back-as-her-movie-deal-with-daily-wire-goes-viral\/\" title=\"Media Shocked Gina Carano Fought Back As Her Movie Deal With Daily Wire Goes Viral\">conservative political commentator<\/a> and father, didn&#8217;t hold back when he confronted Randi Weingarten, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/beastmode-conservative-dad-torches-randi-weingarten-over-school-closures\/\" title=\"BEASTMODE: Conservative Dad Torches Randi Weingarten Over School Closures\">national teachers&#8217; union chief<\/a>, for denying her leading role in <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> during the pandemic. During a panel discussion on CNN, Jennings said, &#8220;Speaking on behalf of millions of American parents &#8230; I am stunned at what you have said this week about your claiming to have wanted to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/calif-gov-newsom-announces-2b-plan-to-reopen-schools-by-spring\/\" title=\"Calif. Gov. Newsom announces B plan to reopen schools by spring\">reopen schools<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Parents Believe Weingarten Was the Tip of the Spear of School Closures<\/h3>\n<p>Jennings went on to say, &#8220;You&#8217;ll find that most parents believe you were the tip of the spear of school closures. There are numerous statements you made over the summer of &#8217;20 scaring people to death about the possibility of opening schools.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Weingarten&#8217;s Testimony Before Congress<\/h3>\n<p>Weingarten testified before Congress this week that she worked tirelessly to reopen schools during the pandemic. &#8220;We spent every day from February on trying to get schools open,&#8221; Weingarten told lawmakers Wednesday. &#8220;We knew that remote education was not a substitute for opening schools.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Weingarten&#8217;s Stance on Reopening Schools During the Pandemic<\/h3>\n<p>However, during the pandemic, Weingarten frequently railed against calls to reopen schools, calling the notion &#8220;very dangerous&#8221; and accusing then-president Donald Trump of being &#8220;callous&#8221; and &#8220;cruel&#8221; for supporting their reopening. &#8220;Covid became an opportunity for her union, the American Federation of Teachers, to push for broader policy changes that it had long favored,&#8221; the New York Times reported Friday.<\/p>\n<h3>Generational Damage Done to Kids<\/h3>\n<p>Jennings expressed his frustration with Weingarten&#8217;s lack of remorse for the generational damage done to kids. &#8220;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? And for you to sit in front of Congress and the American people and say, &#8216;Oh, I wanted to open them the whole time,&#8217; I am shocked.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Weingarten&#8217;s Response<\/h3>\n<p>Weingarten defended herself, saying that she knew &#8220;the importance of reopening schools and the importance of making sure that people were safe. Parents, she claimed, &#8220;basically understood and supported that we needed to do both.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jennings called out Weingarten for denying her leading role in keeping schools closed during the pandemic.<\/li>\n<li>Weingarten testified before Congress that she worked tirelessly to reopen schools during the pandemic.<\/li>\n<li>During the pandemic, Weingarten frequently railed against calls to reopen schools.<\/li>\n<li>Jennings expressed his frustration with Weingarten&#8217;s lack of remorse for the generational damage done to kids.<\/li>\n<li>Weingarten defended herself, saying that she knew &#8220;the importance of reopening schools and the importance of making sure that people were safe.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative political commentator and father Scott Jennings called out national teachers&#8217; union chief Randi Weingarten to her face Thursday for denying her leading role in keeping schools closed during the pandemic. &#8220;Speaking on behalf of millions of American parents &#8230; I am stunned at what you have said this week about your claiming to have<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":1921164,"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":[544],"tags":[6080,4879,4914,13346,25300,3924,6865,25233],"class_list":["post-1921163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-beastmode","tag-closures","tag-conservative","tag-dad","tag-randi","tag-school","tag-torches","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\/1921163","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\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1921163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1921164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1921163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1921163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1921163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}