{"id":496107,"date":"2021-05-11T11:51:05","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T15:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=496107"},"modified":"2021-05-11T11:51:10","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T15:51:10","slug":"must-watch-foxs-maccallum-blisters-national-teachers-union-president-on-alleged-influence-on-biden-critical-race-theory-1619-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/must-watch-foxs-maccallum-blisters-national-teachers-union-president-on-alleged-influence-on-biden-critical-race-theory-1619-project\/","title":{"rendered":"MUST-WATCH: Fox\u2019s MacCallum Blisters National Teachers Union President On Alleged Influence On Biden, Critical Race Theory, 1619 Project"},"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\">36<\/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%2Fmust-watch-foxs-maccallum-blisters-national-teachers-union-president-on-alleged-influence-on-biden-critical-race-theory-1619-project%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=496107&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\/05\/GettyImages-1184491929.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>In a heated exchange with Randi Weingarten, president of the 1.7 million-member American Federation of Teachers, Fox News\u2019 Martha MacCallum blasted the teachers\u2019 unions for their reluctance to let children back into school over the past year, asserting, \u201cThe Trump administration was very aggressive. They wanted to get kids back into classroom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MacCallum also targeted Weingarten for her comment that parents fighting against the teaching of Critical Race Theory and the teachings of The 1619 Project, which noted historians have strongly criticized, were trying to ban a \u201cfactual version of oppression.\u201d MacCallum snapped of The 1619 Project\u2019s version of history, \u201cThat is not factual. That is not true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MacCallum pointed out that two Texas school board candidates who opposed the teaching of Critical Race Theory in schools won by 40 points, adding, \u201cIf you raise children in this country believing that it\u2019s a bad country that was founded in wanting to preserve slavery, which is simply not true, then we\u2019ve got a problem in our school system. And apparently people noticed it in that district in Texas, and they voted in people that they think are going to make sure that that is clear to all the parents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Weingarten repeatedly dodged the question when MacCallum pressed her whether she thought the perspective of The 1619 Project was a \u201cfactual\u201d version of American history, first answering, \u201cI believe we should teach history. And from everything I can see and understand from the data I see, 1619 was the year that the first slave boat came from Africa to the United States,\u201d then replying, \u201cI have not arrived at the same conclusion from her work as you have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would hope that Fox would be just as focused on, let\u2019s get rid of the misinformation about what happened in this election,\u201d Weingarten said. \u201cI favor us teaching about 1776, which I have often done, I favor us teaching about 1619. I also favor us teaching about the Holocaust.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MacCallum concluded the interview by saying, \u201cI come from a long line of very proud teachers, and I\u2019m very proud of the teachers in my family. I think some of them would be a little disturbed by some of what they see happening.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.7290969899666\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Martha MacCallum shreds far-left teachers union president Randi Weingarten in a heated interview. Weingarten even foolishly claims 97% of schools are opened right now \u2014 no reasonable person thinks that. (1\/2) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bfP5KGk6VO\">pic.twitter.com\/bfP5KGk6VO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 (((Jason Rantz))) on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jasonrantz\/status\/1391928540455600128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 11, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.3791469194313\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Martha MacCallum continues to humiliate far-left teachers union president Randi Weingarten in this heated interview. (2\/2) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aRQ6kFhUW1\">pic.twitter.com\/aRQ6kFhUW1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 (((Jason Rantz))) on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jasonrantz\/status\/1391929664080207878?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 11, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Transcript below:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"176\">\n<p><em>MacCallum: One-third of American public school kids are still not fully back at school. The teachers\u2019 unions have been accused at times of dragging their feet and more recently of having too much influence over the White House and the CDC on this political hot potato. So when the New York Post reported that the American Federation of Teachers Union known, known as AFT, was able to coax their language directly into CDC policy that got a lot of attention, take a look. And AFT official wrote this about guidance that the CDC was proposing: \u201cWe would like to share some thoughts regarding the paragraph below\u2026 at any level of community transmission, all schools can provide in person instruction, (either full or hybrid), through strict adherence to mitigation strategies.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In other words, everybody can go back in one way or another, as long as you stick to the mitigation practices, but the AFT wanted this exception at it into that policy: \u201cIn the event high community transmission results from a new variant of SARS-COV-2, a new update of these guidelines may be necessary.\u201d And as you can see on the other side of your screen, they got that almost word for word. So joining us now exclusively AFT, President Randi Weingarten. Randi, good to have you back. Thank you very much for being here. So you can see why that would lead people to think that you all have a lot of muscle over at the White House when it comes to reopening our schools?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Weingarten: So the bottom line is this, Martha, that\u2019s the kind of issue, the variants that were going on at that moment, that kept the Great Britain schools closed. And so we were concerned about it. But let\u2019s actually look at the bottom line here. Right now. 97% of schools are open. And the bottom line, and you and I have had this conversation a lot of times, and you know that we put this plan together April 2020\u2013<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>MacCallum: I went back through your plan again today, but 90, that\u2019s a very high number. It\u2019s 67% that are back in full time, right?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Weingarten: There\u2019s 67% back in full time,\u00a0there\u2019s 30 some odd percent back in in a hybrid basis. We believe that the conditions have changed now so that everybody can be back in full time. But the bottom line is this. I begged the Trump administration, I can show you I have many, many, many letters right now, I went to my office to find them. I begged the Trump administration to do exactly what the Biden administration did, which is real safety guidance that Trump, that the former President, didn\u2019t mock every other day. I thought Redfield was really trying to do a good job, and resources. And what Biden did was they did the safety guidance, some of which\u2013<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>MacCallum: But the point is, but here\u2019s the point. A lot of these schools went back already. Right. So you\u2019re saying yes, the Trump administration was very aggressive. They wanted to get kids back into classroom. And one of the reasons they wanted that was because the study was already showing last fall that transmission among children was very low. You had countries in Europe, you had people all over the place in China, sending their kids back to school, when our children were not going back to school. And that\u2019s why there was so much frustration\u2013unless you\u2019re in a Catholic school or a private school\u2013those kids have been back 100% since September, Randi.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Weingarten: Actually, a lot of the charter schools Martha have not been back.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>MacCallum: Most of them are.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Weingarten: But the bottom line is this, we, if we, if we had actually listened to Dr. Redfield and the CDC last May, and that the President, the former president, hadn\u2019t kept on changing his mind and changing these things, we would have gotten more schools back in session.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>MacCallum: Really? Because what you told me was that there wasn\u2019t money, that some of these schools had problems like mold, I mean, all these things started getting into the mix that were not part of the equation at all, when parents were just wanting to get their kids to go back. So obviously, you didn\u2019t have the pull with the prior administration. But in this administration, there have been $20 million has gone from, to Democrats from teachers\u2019 unions and teachers\u2019 organizations. So I guess that that money seems to be working.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Weingarten: Actually, what\u2019s working is, that in September and October, we were getting a lot of kids back to school with the layered-mitigation, with the testing. The real game changer, unfortunately, became huge increase in COVID in November and December, that put the brakes on a bunch of it\u2013<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>MacCallum: That\u2019s true.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Weingarten: And then the second game changer became the Biden administration, where they, look, the Trump administration helped Pfizer and Moderna get that vaccine done, but the Biden administration got it out to people. And that became the real game changer.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>MacCallum: Well, that\u2019s what started in January, that\u2019s when they were available. So you know, I mean, that that\u2019s the way it happened. But the fact of the matter is that transmission was very low, even in the fall. There were plenty of colleges and independent schools that were back all fall that were in the classroom.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Weingarten: The bottom line became they were back in the fall. And then they went by in and out, we had this conversation about the 3% in, in New York City. My bottom line, Martha is, it\u2019s time for our kids to be back in school. And I am grateful that the Biden administration is listening to parents and to teachers and administrators and to even Fox to try to figure out how we get people vaccinated, how we get our kids back to school, and how we get on them asking about vaccinations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>MacCallum: Absolutely. Everyone agrees on that score. I mean, we can we can discuss why it didn\u2019t happen a long time ago. But God forbid, you know, I mean, now it\u2019s spring, right, school\u2019s almost over. And a lot of these kids are not back yet. What will it take? You said, it\u2019s time to go back? So are teachers going to require that all the students are vaccinated? And when is that going to be? Are you going to have everyone back in September 100% in class five days a week?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Weingarten: I hope so. I hope so.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>MacCallum: And will you require that every student who comes into the school is vaccinated?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Weingarten: No.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>MacCallum: No, absolutely not.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Weingarten: But that\u2019s why you have to still have some mitigation because it\u2019s only emergency use vaccination right now. But I would hope that Fox would do what everybody else in public health is doing, which is we have to get our kids vaccinated once the vaccination is okay. I would hope Fox says to all these people that don\u2019t want the vaccines, that think there\u2019s a problem, why don\u2019t you and I do things together to get our kids back to school? This is what we need to do. We have to stop the misinformation. We have to stop the disinformation efforts.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>MacCallum: As you know, many of those students were back without being vaccinated. And the CDC said it wasn\u2019t required for teachers or students to be vaccinated to go back to school. So children are a separate issue; every family across America is going to make that decision about their children, we know that these are going to be widely available for them, which is great, so people have that option, and we certainly hope that they take advantage of that option.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The segment later continued:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"145\">\n<p><em>MacCallum: So as you know, folks at home there are several states that have now taken action to ban what\u2019s called critical race theory from being taught in their schools. Randi Weingarten says that opponents are trying to ban a \u201cfactual version of oppression.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>She asked, \u201cYou have said that we quoted you on the way to the break that you know that there\u2019s that this is a factual finding the 1619 report that was put together in The New York Times that now has been converted to learning materials that are in classrooms, and are parts of curriculums. Do you believe that 1619 is a factual program?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Weingarten: So, Martha, I believe that I\u2019m a history teacher, and I\u2019m a social studies teacher. And I believe we should teach history. And from everything I can see and understand from the data I see 1619 was the year that the first slave boat came from Africa to the United States. So that\u2019s a point in history that I think we should be teaching.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>MacCallum: But that\u2019s I mean, that\u2019s very simplistic, you know, take on it. I mean, the 1619 9 project teaches that that\u2019s the true beginning and the founding of our nation, not 1776. And that the reason for the revolution, and the colonization was because people wanted to preserve, colonists wanted to preserve slavery, that the country was founded on the basis of wanting to preserve slavery. But that is not factual. That is not true. In fact, scholars in this area, say there\u2019s no evidence that colonists were motivated by that in coming to the United States. So it would be wrong as a historian to want to teach them something that is not true, because that\u2019s the basis that sets up all these other tenets that lead to teaching kids that we live in a systemically racist country.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Weingarten: So I would actually say that I\u2019ve had several conversations with Nicole Hannah Jones. And I have not arrived at the same conclusion from her work as you have. But let\u2019s put it this way.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>MacCallum: Well, that\u2019s not my conclusion. That\u2019s directly from their work. But go ahead.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Weingarten: I would hope that Fox would be just as focused on, let\u2019s get rid of the misinformation about what happened in this election. This election was free \u2014<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>MacCallum: Randy, come on, that this is not the topic that we\u2019re here to talk about. I\u2019m not going to talk about that. We\u2019ve talked about that before, but that\u2019s a dodge, okay? Because children in this country, we rank 36th in math. Okay. That\u2019s about midway of all the developed nations in this country. So I am asking you, as you say you\u2019re a social studies teacher, do you favor teaching students that 1619 is more important than 1776? Do you favor that?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Weingarten: I favor us teaching about 1776, which I have often done, I favorr us teaching about 1619. I also favor us teaching about the Holocaust, and the genocide in terms of \u2014<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>MacCallum: Absolutely. I I learned about all those all those things in school that you just mentioned, but probably didn\u2019t. Do you think that it\u2019s wrong to suggest to children that if they\u2019re white, they belong to an oppressor class? If they\u2019re black, they belong to a victim class. Do you have any problem with that?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Weingarten: I think we should be lifting up all ethnicities, I don\u2019t think we should say that one is an oppressor class, and one is a non-oppressor class. I am a big believer in celebrating diversity in actually looking at and helping look at people\u2019s lived experience. But if you\u2019re really talking about misinformation now, Martha, and I hope you are, I really would hope that Fox would really look at what happened in this election and how we can because every social studies teacher is wrestling with this, discern fact from fiction, we have to do that as social studies teachers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>MacCallum: We have a president, President Biden, was elected in 2020. I think that all of that is quite clear. So I\u2019m not sure why you are so concerned with with that part, with that particular moment in history, every election is significant. Nobody is hiding anything under any rocks here. The fact is that you have two people who who just made it onto the school board in Texas, right? They won by 40 points, because they said, \u201cYou know what, this stuff, parents, you better become aware of it. Because if you think that it\u2019s just \u2018Oh, the first ship came with slaves on it and 1619,\u2019 you better dig in a little bit deeper, because there\u2019s more to it than that.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And then you watch Tim Scott, who stood up in front of the country and said America is not a racist nation. There are racism incidents, there is racism, we all recognize that. But if you raise children in this country believing that it\u2019s a bad country that was founded in wanting to preserve slavery, which is simply not true, then we\u2019ve got a problem in our school system. And apparently people noticed it in that district in Texas, and they voted in people that they think are going to make sure that that is clear to all the parents<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Weingarten: Martha, I know you love having me on to tell me all these things.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>MacCallum: I like discussing it with you. I mean, I respect you. And I like discussing this.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Weingarten: I love America, my grandparents came from the Ukraine, my grandfather was persecuted, almost killed on his way to the United States. I love America. And I am so grateful that I live in a nation that can actually see how to make itself better. And that\u2019s what we try to do in education all the time. And so, look, I think we should be teaching about 1776, I think we should be teaching about all the civil rights laws, I think we should actually be doing more with civics and science in school. And I do think that we should actually be talking about when the slave trade started in a place we now call America, all of those.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>MacCallum: I don\u2019t think anybody has any problem with all the things that you just listed. Those things are absolutely not, not the issue that that we\u2019re discussing. And I agree with you on all of those. And I want to thank you, because I do I think it\u2019s a good debate. It\u2019s a good discussion. And as I as you know, I come from a long line of very proud teachers, and I\u2019m very proud of the teachers in my family. I think some of them would be a little disturbed by some of what they see happening.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\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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