{"id":835585,"date":"2021-10-01T14:59:18","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T18:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=835585"},"modified":"2021-10-01T14:59:20","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T18:59:20","slug":"natl-teachers-union-prez-panicked-desantis-will-trigger-flight-to-private-schools-social-media-hallelujah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/natl-teachers-union-prez-panicked-desantis-will-trigger-flight-to-private-schools-social-media-hallelujah\/","title":{"rendered":"Nat\u2019l Teachers Union Prez Panicked DeSantis Will Trigger Flight To Private Schools. Social Media: \u2018Hallelujah\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%2Fnatl-teachers-union-prez-panicked-desantis-will-trigger-flight-to-private-schools-social-media-hallelujah%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=835585&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\/07\/Ron-DeSantis-1-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The powerful head of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten, is apparently panicked that the policies of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis will trigger parents to pluck their children out of public schools, where Weingarten and her ilk can inculcate their leftist messaging, and place them in private schools instead.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Weingarten referencing an article in the leftist The New Republic that attacked DeSantis for his policies, tweeted, \u201cThis isn\u2019t just about masks or about Governor DeSantis\u2019 political aspirations. It\u2019s about the complete destabilization of public education so that parents will choose private schools.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.5606060606061\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This isn\u2019t just about masks or about Governor DeSantis\u2019 political aspirations. It\u2019s about the complete destabilization of public education so that parents will choose private schools. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/o9FkLV7vNW\">https:\/\/t.co\/o9FkLV7vNW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Randi Weingarten (@rweingarten) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rweingarten\/status\/1443746419282751492?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 1, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The New Republic had huffed, \u201cFlorida\u2019s recent struggles over masks in schools augur a terrifying shift in the right\u2019s approach to education policy,\u201d then quickly gave a salient reason for the Left\u2019s panic:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"12.78453038674\">\n<p><em>This May, in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HVujpIator0\">speech<\/a>&nbsp;at Michigan\u2019s deeply conservative Hillsdale College,&nbsp;Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran sketched out a few principles for Republicans to follow. Conservatives, he said, should no longer consider the primary purpose of school to be training students for employment; instead, they should see it as instilling moral values.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The article continued that DeSantis \u201cappears to be piloting a new education ideology for Republicans. Trading in the decades-old, substantially bipartisan education reform agenda, a formula that was born in Florida, he is mustering a naked attack on the very existence of public schools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some examples of DeSantis\u2019 actions that terrify The New Republic:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"15.021943573668\">\n<p><em>In March, he unveiled a $106 million civics education initiative\u2014developed, uncoincidentally, under the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/floridaphoenix.com\/2019\/08\/22\/the-legislature-inserted-groups-tied-to-right-wing-donors-into-floridas-new-law-on-civics-education\/\">advisement<\/a> of Hillsdale College, which directs a line of charter schools,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/floridaphoenix.com\/2019\/08\/23\/fl-education-commissioners-wife-connected-to-private-christian-college-chosen-for-state-civics-education-review\/\">including<\/a>&nbsp;one&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/floridaphoenix.com\/2019\/08\/23\/fl-education-commissioners-wife-connected-to-private-christian-college-chosen-for-state-civics-education-review\/\">run<\/a>&nbsp;by the education commissioner\u2019s wife\u2014that emphasizes \u201cthe influence of the Ten Commandments,\u201d calls protesting \u201cirresponsible citizenship,\u201d and bans \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/floridapolitics.com\/archives\/414375-ron-desantis-critical-marx\/\">Marxist<\/a>\u201d critical race theory. In June, the state Board of Education&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/florida-board-education-critical-race-theory\">prohibited<\/a>&nbsp;any instruction that defines American history \u201cas something other than the creation of a new nation based largely on universal principles stated in the Declaration of Independence.\u201d&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In July, Weingarten <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/teachers-union-president-attacks-desantis-millions-will-die-gets-slammed-offers-only-partial-apology\/\">hysterically attacked<\/a> DeSantis, tweeting that \u201cMillions in response to DeSantis\u2019of Floridians are going to die for Ron DeSantis\u2019 ignorance and he\u2019s choosing to profit from it,\u201d after DeSantis\u2019 campaign team offered T-shirts saying, \u201cDon\u2019t Fauci My Florida.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Six hours later she offered a tepid half-apology, tweeting, \u201cYou are all probably right \u2026 I shouldn\u2019t have said millions.\u201d Weingarten\u2019s original tweet stated, \u201cDisgusting. Millions of Floridians are going to die for Ron DeSantis\u2019 ignorance and he\u2019s choosing to profit from it. He doesn\u2019t care about Floridians; he cares about furthering his own cruel agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis Press Secretary Christina Pushaw blasted Weingarten in a statement to The Daily Wire, saying,&nbsp;\u201cIs Randi Weingarten\u2019s ridiculous claim that selling a koozie will lead to \u2018millions\u2019 of Floridians dying an example of Critical Math Theory? It\u2019s terrifying that the fate of any child\u2019s education is in the hands of someone so incredibly ignorant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As far as who is responsible for \u201cdestabilizing\u201d public schools, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/report-nations-second-largest-teachers-union-influenced-cdc-on-school-reopening-guidelines-delayed-return-to-classrooms\/\">The Daily Wire<\/a> reported in May 2021:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"18.730158730159\">\n<p><em>The American Federation of Teachers, led by Randi Weingarten, appears to have lobbied the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to keep schools shuttered amid the coronavirus pandemic and \u201ceven suggested language for the federal agency\u2019s school-reopening guidance released in February,\u201d according to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/05\/01\/teachers-union-collaborated-with-cdc-on-school-reopening-emails\/?utm_source=twitter_sitebuttons&amp;utm_medium=site%20buttons&amp;utm_campaign=site%20buttons\">a Saturday report from the New York Post<\/a>, based on emails between the AFT and CDC.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe powerful teachers union\u2019s full-court press preceded the federal agency putting the brakes on a full re-opening of in-person classrooms, emails between top CDC, AFT, and White House officials show,\u201d the Post reported Saturday.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Weingarten\u2019s tweet engendered responses like these:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"4.3928571428571\">\n<p lang=\"in\" dir=\"ltr\">Hallelujah.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RubinReport\/status\/1443964166671196164?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 1, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.8341968911917\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Says the very woman who kept schools closed for a year. <\/p>\n<p>No one destabilized public education more than you, Randi. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LvgojYhTtD\">https:\/\/t.co\/LvgojYhTtD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Reagan Battalion (@ReaganBattalion) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ReaganBattalion\/status\/1443964687708721155?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 1, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.2156862745098\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">teachers unions destabilized public education by fighting to keep schools closed for over a year.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Corey A. DeAngelis (@DeAngelisCorey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeAngelisCorey\/status\/1443961806087757837?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 1, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.3076923076923\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">teachers unions have inadvertently done more to advance school choice this past year than anyone could have ever imagined. thank you Randi.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Corey A. DeAngelis (@DeAngelisCorey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeAngelisCorey\/status\/1443967454523363336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 1, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.8790560471976\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I will say again: absolutely no one destabilized public education last year more than Randi Weingarten. School choice movement owes her a big thank you. We noticed that public schools controlled by her stayed closed while the private schools in same areas opened. We saw. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5LPuCt054v\">https:\/\/t.co\/5LPuCt054v<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Karol Markowicz (@karol) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/karol\/status\/1443964316974202881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 1, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.0196078431373\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Not seeing the problem here. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jMR71BFCvw\">https:\/\/t.co\/jMR71BFCvw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/redsteeze\/status\/1443962663122321408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 1, 2021<\/a><\/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. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The powerful head of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten, is apparently panicked that the policies of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis will trigger parents to pluck their children out &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-835585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835585","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=835585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}