Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the party is always right.
Teachers' Union Head criticizes Jews as "part of the ownership class"
And they are so white too!
As president of the American Federation of Teachers since 2008, Randi Weingarten, herself Jewish, has become the public face of the messy politics of figuring out how to educate 50 million children during a pandemic.
In recent months, as vaccines have become more readily available and, under the Biden administration's direction, states have prioritized vaccinating teachers, it has grown safer for adults to work in school buildings. But nearly half the country's public school students are still attending school remotely, a product of complicated logistics, parent preferences and, at least in some places, resistance by teachers to returning to in-person instruction.
This last force has generated criticism of teachers' unions, such as Weingarten's, for exercising outsized force in the lives of American families. Why should the teachers union in San Francisco or Los Angeles, for example, get to overrule the wishes of families who want their children in school?
It's a question that angers Weingarten — and she has a specific message for US Jews who have joined in the criticism.
"American Jews are now part of the ownership class", she said. "What I hear when I hear that question is that those who are in the ownership class now want to take that ladder of opportunity away from those who do not have it. Am I saying that everything we do is right? No. Are people in Los Angeles fearful? Yes".
As president of the American Federation of Teachers since 2008, Randi Weingarten, herself Jewish, has become the public face of the messy politics of figuring out how to educate 50 million children during a pandemic.
