Teachers union head Randi Weingarten toured schools in Ukraine: ‘They’re in a fight for freedom’

Combating for training

Randi Weingarten. President of the American Federation of Lecturers, graduate of various universities, former instructor. I’d phoned her for weeks. Left messages. No return calls, letters, emails, nothing.

Yesterday, she phoned with: “I’m simply again from the Ukraine.

“It was terrifying. Heartbreaking. I met lecturers and college students who had been compelled into basements to show. Belongings, baggage, school rooms, desks, chairs all blown up. Little youngsters whose books, notebooks, papers, backpacks, blackboards, crayons, pencils and data all destroyed. They've completely nothing.

“Lecturers instructed me intimately the unbelievable stage of brutality. Faculties destroyed. Books, data, info, histories, classes all gone. These folks perceive what freedom means. They’re in a struggle for freedom.

“After years of worldwide work with lengthy fights for public training, I now should be certain Ukraine educators usually are not deserted. I need to learn to assist them.

“I didn’t simply go there alone. I used to be a visitor of the Ukrainian Lecturers Union. The journey was OK’d by our State Division and we got safety.”

Admitting to the silver display screen

New thriller film. “The Good Nurse.” Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne went to nursing college to be taught its how-to’s.

Jessica: “It was intense. Even the compression when reviving somebody. They taught it’s identical rhythm because the track ‘Ah, ah, ah, ah, Stayin’ Alive.’ Doing these scenes I needed to work exhausting to not lose my head going round.”

Redmayne: “We frolicked with actual nurses. Dumbfounding what they do. Just like the bodily functionality of transferring our bodies. Apart from the emotional intelligence there’s additionally being the conduit between docs and households.”

Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne went to nursing school to prepare for their roles in the new thriller "The Good Nurse.”
Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne went to nursing college to organize for his or her roles within the new thriller “The Good Nurse.”
Picture by Bryan Bedder/Getty Photographs for Netflix

Dangerous bedside method has Redmayne killing sufferers and Chastain risking her life to reveal him. It’s based mostly on actual nurse Amy Loughren who was current throughout filming. And says Jessica: “Formidable to play somebody as they’re watching it. I keep in mind taking a look at her whereas we had been filming and pondering ‘I’m a fraud.’”

Smash metropolis

And for what’s up with our hopefully temp mayor’s metropolis? It’s down. So unhealthy that an East Aspect socialite in an A-1 district wrote her co-residents:

Cellini jewelers was simply robbed. It's in a excessive stage space. Final evening round 7 p.m. ish our door employees witnessed two muggings. One was three youngsters. The opposite: a child driving the sidewalk on an electrical scooter. Each occurred in a primary lease district.

“Allow us to method different residential buildings to see curiosity in hiring safety to patrol, on foot, as a visual signal of deterrence in our neighborhood.

“This unhappy state of affairs impacts the security and high quality of life of every of us together with our youngsters.”

Might Jerk Adams learn this en path to a digital camera masking his subsequent cocktail occasion.

Making good

Now excellent news. Nicenews.com says “cooperation amongst strangers” elevated for the reason that ’50s. From 1956 to 2017, 63,000 took half in some 500 research and the group discovered “a slight enhance in cooperation.” If any had been Democrats I’m undecided.


After relinquishing princely duties, phrase is former HRH Andrew will subsequent spend time putting in a Royal Confessional on his property plus two interns and a dry cleaner.

Solely within the Motherland, youngsters, solely within the Motherland.

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