{"id":396176,"date":"2021-04-07T12:28:31","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T16:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=396176"},"modified":"2021-04-07T12:28:35","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T16:28:35","slug":"teachers-union-president-attacks-jewish-parents-pushing-to-reopen-schools-part-of-the-ownership-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/teachers-union-president-attacks-jewish-parents-pushing-to-reopen-schools-part-of-the-ownership-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Teachers Union President Attacks Jewish Parents Pushing To Reopen Schools: \u2018Part Of The Ownership Class\u2019"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fteachers-union-president-attacks-jewish-parents-pushing-to-reopen-schools-part-of-the-ownership-class%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=396176&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:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-723.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten slammed American Jews for pushing schools to open for in-person learning.<\/p>\n<p>Weingarten spoke to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in a phone interview published last week. The AFT head, a Jewish woman who is married to liberal Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, said American Jews who want their children back in school are making a \u201cprivileged argument\u201d over teachers who do not want to teach in person because of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jta.org\/2021\/04\/01\/opinion\/randi-weingarten-has-a-vision-to-get-kids-back-to-school-and-strong-words-for-jews-who-say-unions-are-the-obstacle\">Jewish Telegraph Agency<\/a> asked Weingarten about the power of teachers unions to influence public policy. The unions have become outspoken critics of opening schools and in cities such as Los Angeles are the main hurdle to restarting in-person learning. Weingarten used the question to launch into the American Jewish community:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"38\">\n<p><em>I have a very pointed response here for Jews making this argument.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>American Jews are now part of the ownership class. Jews were immigrants from somewhere else. And they needed the right to have public education. And they needed power to have enough income and wealth for their families that they could put their kids through college and their kids could do better than they have done. Both economic opportunity through the labor movement and an educational opportunity through public education were key for Jews to go from the working class to the ownership class.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>What I hear when I hear that question is that those who are in the ownership class now want to take that ladder of opportunity away from those who do not have it. Am I saying that everything we do is right? No. Are people in Los Angeles fearful? Yes.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>One in three people have had COVID in L.A. The disease has significantly hurt Black and brown communities, many of whom are in the leadership of UTLA (United Teachers Los Angeles, the main teachers union). You have to meet fear with facts, just like you have to do about vaccine hesitancy. And that\u2019s what\u2019s happening right now, just like it\u2019s happening all across the country. It had to happen in Chicago, it had to happen in Philly, it had to happen in Cleveland. And so we need to actually have this roadmap that works, working together, and talking to people about how we overcome this. And this is what I see in my union.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We just did a poll at the beginning of February: 88% of my members nationally \u2014&nbsp;paraprofessionals and teachers \u2014&nbsp;said that they were in favor of the AFT plan to reopen in-person learning with the mitigation strategies, the testing and vaccine access.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And 85% would feel comfortable being in school with that plan, including 73% of people who were still virtual. That gives you a sense of where teachers are. They\u2019re scared. Seventy-one percent in the same poll said they were scared about bringing COVID home to their family. So we have to meet fear with facts. I wish we had 1\/100th of the power the right wing attributes to us. We\u2019d do a heck of a lot better job in actually educating our kids and focusing on excellence and equity.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Los Angeles teachers union has held up progress on reopening schools, citing fear of COVID-19 and using the pandemic as leverage to push for more benefits for their members, such as free child care. California is lagging behind much of the U.S. in returning to in-person learning largely because of the influence of the state\u2019s teachers unions. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/la-teachers-want-free-child-care-before-returning-to-in-person-learning\">The Daily Wire<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"22\">\n<p><em>California teachers unions are largely to blame for the delay, with the California Teacher\u2019s Association telling media as recently as late March that they believe California schools are not equipped to allow for safe in-classroom learning, despite the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) saying such arrangements are low risk.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Toby E. Boyd, president of the CTA, said in March that schools \u201cmust follow through on implementing all safety measures including vaccinations, wearing masks, hand washing, sanitization, adequate ventilation, and testing and tracing\u201d before teachers will feel confident in returning to in-person instruction.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/many-school-districts-refusing-to-commit-to-in-person-reopening-in-the-fall-as-teachers-unions-continue-to-move-goalposts\">Many School Districts Refusing To Commit To In-Person Reopening In The Fall As Teachers Unions Continue To Move Goalposts<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten slammed American Jews for pushing schools to open for in-person learning.Weingarten spoke to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in a phone interview published &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311795,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-723.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Teachers Union President Attacks Jewish Parents Pushing To Reopen Schools: \u2018Part Of The Ownership Class\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-723.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Teachers Union President Attacks Jewish Parents Pushing To Reopen Schools: \u2018Part Of The Ownership Class\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396176","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}