STEFAN JEREMIAH
The Concern: Mike Pompeo’s provide to debate American Federation of Lecturers head Randi Weingarten.
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was 100% right in his criticism of American Federation of Lecturers President Randi Weingarten as “essentially the most harmful individual within the US” (“Randi gained’t meet Mike,” Dec. 1).
With main help from the Biden White Home, most notably First Woman Jill Biden, and CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky, she offered out a complete era of susceptible youngsters along with her progressive insurance policies that put lazy lecturers first and the children’ training final.
She skillfully manipulated the COVID epidemic by creating unreasonable calls for and obstacles to maintain public colleges closed whereas personal, parochial and lots of constitution colleges saved their doorways open for in-person studying.
The psychological, instructional and social harm she inflicted on the scholars in her care is incalculable.
Anthony Scro
Whitestone
On the one hand, Weingarten doesn’t need to debate as a result of she doesn’t need to be Pompeo’s “prop,” a gutless however comprehensible place. However then again, she says it’s “positive with me” in the case of participating about find out how to “strengthen public training.” So will she or gained’t she?
Think about if the lecturers she leads had been as confused and complicated within the classroom. Possibly that’s the issue with public training in any case.
John Sheridan
The Bronx
Underneath Weingarten’s stewardship as head of the AFT, colleges have turn out to be venues for indoctrination.
Younger youngsters are taught about intercourse and molded to embrace woke beliefs. It's no surprise then that younger folks right now champion abortion and develop up confused about their sexual orientation and id.
A lot of this may be blamed on how youngsters are being taught in colleges, and Pompeo is completely right in laying blame for all this on Weingarten.
Given her background, we all know she works towards advancing a liberal agenda in American training and shaping schoolchildren to suit her politics.
Wendy Packus
Pelham
In 1968, Albert Shanker, the top of the United Federation of Lecturers, referred to as a strike that may final for 2 agonizing months. The faculties remained open and college students had been admitted. However inside, there was little or no tutorial instruction.
Neither Shanker nor any of his disciples cared about the truth that New York’s children, notably its black and brown children, had been getting no training in any respect for these two months. I do know this to be so as a result of it was my second 12 months of educating.
Whereas I got here from a unionized household background, I all the time held that I’d by no means enable myself to hunt dollars on the expense of my learners.
In all my years of service, I’ve stayed true to these beliefs — simply as Weingarten has stayed true to Shankerism.
Two months in 1968 and now two years since 2020. It makes no distinction. Lecturers unions then and now have all the time been a “me first,” learners be damned” protocol.
Ken Karcinell
Hewlett
After studying Pompeo’s provocative however pertinent portrayal of Weingarten as essentially the most harmful individual on the earth, I couldn’t assist however recall Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner’s ebook, “Instructing as a Subversive Exercise.”
Instructing shouldn't be about indoctrination, however enlightenment. Wokeism and its associated ideas are subverting the elemental ideas of training.
Frank Brady
Yonkers
Earlier than difficult Weingarten to a debate, Pompeo may first have thought of difficult Biden’s training secretary to a debate to get solutions as to why the Biden administration has turned a blind eye to our nation’s failed training system — and ask what steps Biden intends to take to treatment the state of affairs.
Clearly, Weingarten ought to have been voted out of her management place a very long time in the past. However hopefully, ought to Pompeo win the presidency in 2024, he'll do no matter is important to place the college unions out of enterprise.
J.J. Crovatto
Ramsey, NJ
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