Why Teachers Unions Stifled Learning During The Pandemic
Federalist Radio Hour
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🗓️ 23 May 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:57.1 | Hey, thanks for having me on Emily. Yeah, absolutely. There's a lot to talk about, |
| 1:01.3 | particularly in the arena that you work in. I want to start with your recent argument against |
| 1:09.2 | Randy Weingarten, America's sweetheart, Randy Weingarten, who's of course president of the American |
| 1:14.7 | Federation of Teachers. The union that's been really put on a master class in flip flopping |
| 1:24.0 | on school closures and has been at the forefront of a lot of the most ridiculous talking points |
| 1:31.4 | that hurt children over the course of the last two years. They're learning and development. |
| 1:34.9 | So Aaron, tell us about your recent comments on Weingarten. It's sort of hard to keep up with |
| 1:41.2 | how ridiculous she is, but just recently, at the very least, what did you have to say about |
| 1:48.4 | her hypocrisy? Yeah, I mean, I laugh about it, but it's a complete, what she's done is devastated |
| 1:55.4 | that children. I mean, Randy Weingarten is the head of the Teachers Union, the American Federation |
| 2:00.4 | of Teachers. And basically for the past two years, she's been advocating for keeping kids out of |
| 2:06.6 | schools, remote learning, and of course, making our kids wear face masks in schools. And across |
| 2:13.2 | states and cities where the Teachers' unions have been able to put into office their candidates, |
| 2:21.7 | people that they have funded and endorsed, we've seen that play out. I mean, they've had the |
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