If you're not seeing the replies there — I know I'm not — then read "Randi Weingarten gets educated about exactly who is to blame for the rise in homeschooling/The American Federation of Teachers union boss shared an article on 'What's behind the increase in homeschooling'" (Fox News).Ah, I see that the reply-guys are out in force attacking this tweet.
— Randi Weingarten 🇺🇦🇺🇸💪🏿👩🎓 (@rweingarten) November 13, 2023
Look at the data: if we dealt w/ gun violence, had robust anti-bullying programs & provided more services for special needs students, many of these parents wouldn't feel compelled to homeschool.
Is there some way "Twitter" empowers users to undisplay the responses to their "tweets"?
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I don't have an X account, so I can't read replies now anyway. However, I think the replies would be to the first post and not the second.
As for why parents are homeschooling? Why not. In 2020, Weingarten kept the schools closed and parents had no choice if they wanted an educated child. In 2021, Weingarten supported closing schools again. Today, she lies about her role in doing any of this. I'm surprised she still has a job.
Public education is doing a lousy job. Many other aspects of what government provides are also provided in a slip shod, lousy fashion but this is different. People care about their children in a way that transcends petty considerations such as political parties, cost, even in extreme cases laws. This is the entrenched redoubt that will not surrender, and cannot be bypassed. It may become the immovable object on which Progressivism breaks.
Does this relatively small percentage of families leaving matter? You're damned right it does. These are families that care deeply enough about their children to expend a great deal of their time and resources. You've just lost the athletics booster club, the PTA bake sale, the kids with intact, responsible families that would help counter the chaos and tribalism in the worst of our school systems. Coming soon to the rest of them.
To say nothing of the per capita student money from the government. But that's not critical. School systems spend money in such a ludicrous, wasteful fashion that there's still a great deal of slush left.
I'm saying this as someone whose kids all did public school start to finish, and who has volunteered in the system for a quarter century and counting.
Tacitus
Lots of articles this year about a low percentage of kids that can read or write or do math at grade level.
It isn't just the guns and violence - it's that the left refuse to keep our kids safe with police and armed guards.
I don't pay for Twitter, so thus haven't seen replies to Tweets in well over 6 months. It sucks without replies, I no longer bother to visit.
Before criticizing her, remember who she represents.
Teachers who pay dues to be members of the aft union.
NOT students, parents or other people who don't.
Not to say that aft does not do a bad job improving education. They do a horrible job. But it is not THEIR job to make education better.
John Henry
Randi Weingarten is an evil witch whose pandemic leadership was so bad she got scolded live on CNN. When literal bolshevik toadies won't carry your water, you know you screwed up good and proper.
She demanded the schools nationally stay closed for additional months during covid. Months! So her 'people' could have more at home days, less stress, and, you know...do union stuff.
But more than that: She stands in the way of school choice. Across the nation more and more states are approving some form of it, though usually restricted (which will result in only modest gains in overall scores). But her union is the single largest group funder of the Democratic Party. They, in essence, own the Democratic Party. And so, the same people who run the worst run cities in the US, and oversee the most crime ridden sections of those cities, with the worst schools in the nation, do not allow the kids from the poorest families an out- a way to stop the cycle. They keep them locked in the worst schools in our nation, while Randi Weingarten tries to shift the blame to anything but herself.
Want to see a massive rise in student reading comprehension, writing, math, history scores? Allow for a full, robust, unfettered free market for education where each family can use their allocated education dollars to go to a school of their choosing. Seems ridiculous at this point to force people into bad schools to prop up a union.
If you want change- real change- it starts this way: a full, robust free market school choice program. In every state. Oh...I can hear Democrats wailing on this already.
I see a notice: “Who can reply? Accounts @rweingarten follows or mentions can reply”
The account is locked just like the public schools.
I see the replies, and they're limited to her friends:
Accounts @rweingarten follows or mentioned can reply
American public education, putting the cart before the horse since 1979.
Does America make mistakes? I don't know. According to the left America has been nothing but One Big Mistake since 1492 when Columbus failed to sink into the briny depths. But before we cancel ourselves, perhaps we should start small and then work our way up to the big one -- just in case. In terms of graduating a simple majority of competent speakers and readers of the English language who could perform uncomplicated calculations without electronics, we did fairly well before President Jimmah demanded another cabinet-level bureaucracy. Since 1979 it has been one educational disaster after another, with each passing year witnessing fewer and fewer passing students to the point that now the best option for our children is to educate them at home where at least they're not endangered by murderous penis envy. Repeal the Department of Education Organization Act. Dismantle the entire federal education bureaucracy and assign its staff to tasks they are more qualified to perform, highway beautification come to mind.
"What's behind the increase in homeschooling"
I think grade school teachers being shot by 6 year olds in class and mandatory participation in perversion have something to do with that.
In 10-15 years it's going to be interesting watching some of the political fallout from the cultural anti-natalism occurring in real time as a large cohort of childless singles suddenly start asking uncomfortable questions about what the largest portion of their property taxes are actually paying for.
What the fuck are they paying for? I'm not childless, my children aren't in the system yet, and I AM already asking that question. I am not putting my children into a system where accommodations for other children who they're cats includes schools putting litter boxes in bathrooms.
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Accounts @rweingarten follows or mentioned can reply"
For me the whole issue is encapsulated by the cartoon that shows an obstetrician cradling a newborn baby, as the exhausted new mother asks, “Is it a boy or a girl, Doctor?” He replies, “Whoa, not so fast, we have to wait for the kindergarten teacher to decide.”
Like all the best sardonic jokes there is more than a little painful truth at its root. Teachers are our hired help. We pay them to teach the 3 R’s and a few other academic subjects. That’s it. Who the F**K do these arrogant schoolmarms think they are, meddling in such essential issues of parenthood? How DARE they think they are justified to assume any authority over the way families deal with such issues? I’d say that even if they were particularly qualified to help, but they’re not. By and large the College of Education is the academic dregs of any university, and full to bursting with far left ideologues bent on the destruction and rebuilding of civilization. At a very handsome salary for nine months’ work per year, and a gold plated pension.
I see the teachers’ unions as one of the most corrosive and evil entities in public life and am in favor of anything that attacks and undermines them.
Ms Weingarten has the ability to reply to her posts turned off by default. Wouldn't want "the reply-guys" to be able to converse directly with her lofty intellect.
"Reply-guys"? How sexist.
"Moi ??" (eyebrows raised, hand to breast in profound mocking surprise)
No, it's the bullies.
Given the issues, er, opportunities our children face it’s obvious that Weingarten isn’t the answer in any way, shape or form.
Randi Weingarten might be one of the most evil persons walking the planet right now.
Bullying programs, special ed inclusion, that's where they went wrong 20+ years ago. Send those noisy kicking biting hitting sped students to a different school so the normies can learn.
Teacher's union lackeys exist for two things:
1) Self-protection racket/The teacher's union bureaucratic hierarchy.
2) The democrat party money whore mob-gods. Obey.
Proper education of our children is not even on the list.
The Fox News story has some of of the replies that Evil Randi wouldn’t allow if you want a taste.
Taxpayers have every right to complain about the services they pay for. Children or not.
Replies are locked on her tweet. Typical, brave, arrogant, incompetent leader of our education establishment.
You know what might help fix our shit public education system? More men. And not the Beta kind.
Randi Weingarten and her union brethren are selling a product. Homeschooling parents aren't buying it.
A lawsuit in Wisconsin is trying to eliminate the School Choice Program which is used by MANY minorities in Milwaukee to get their kids out of shit MPS schools, and into smaller, better, less violent private schools.
This lawsuit is being brought forth by the liberal dickhead that owns the Minocqua Brewing Company and its associated PAC. This asshole harasses and tries to eliminate successful conservative efforts in the state.
Typical effort by public educators in WI. We learned all about them during the Act 10 temper tantrum. This lawsuit if successful will hurt inner city minorities the most. And the college educated white women, cheering on this lawsuit, will pat themselves on the back for being so open minded.
"Look at the data"? What data indicate that people who pull their kids out in order to homeschool them are doing so because of gun violence (this is the only one that might remotely be in contact with reality), lack of anti-bullying programs (you know that's about not "bullying" the burgeoning ranks of trans kids - btw, I was surprised that in the comments to the AI post our host didn't include the use of "burgeoning" in her takedown of the suit metaphor), and lack of special needs programming?
Those things are Ed school priorities, not widespread parental priorities*.
*Except for the gun violence, which no one wants but to which parents want a different solution from what teachers unions want.
The two big problems with public schools is that male teachers have been driven out and the reinventing of learning techniques from intellectual pinheads, especially math.
Randi Weingarten might be one of the most evil persons walking the planet right now.
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BUMBLE BEE said...
Taxpayers have every right to complain about the services they pay for. Children or not.
11/14/23, 7:42 AM
THIS^^^^!!!!
My kids grew up in a community where the parents would not allow anything less than an excellent school system. In spite of the AFT and NEA. If we ever fell out of being one of the top school systems in the state, there would be torches and pitchforks the next morning. Yet parents in the inner cities just shrug if off and keep voting for Democrats. Even from the grave.
I don’t get it.
The problem with public school is that fundamentals seem to have been replaced with social programming. Reading, math, basic science, first, and after that everything else is gravy.
Half of high school grads read at an elementary school level. And forget math, even making change is a lost art.
You want successful schools, approved by the public? Teach, and stop with the social passing on of failed students.
Quite a few years ago I read a comment by a teachers union rep, that when the students started paying union dues then the union would start caring about them.
What I'd like to know is why the AFT puts up with a president who gets massively ratioed every time she Tweets?
Maybe some of the women who seem to be able to mobilize so effectively for abortion, trans rights and Palestine should try demanding better schools for their kids.
Just blame Trump and get it over with.
Schools today are nothing but education fraud. They proport to educate the kids, instead they groom them for sex, encourage gender transitions and preach climate doomsdays are coming.
That's deliberate. The teachers' unions ideal contract would be infinite money for zero work. They don't care about actually teaching. Schools are nothing but daycare centers now.
it Used To Be..
That you HAD TO send your kids to school, so they could learn to put condoms on bananas
NOW..
You HAVE TO send your kids to school, so they can learn to cut off their breasts and castrate themselves
For SOME REASON.. some parents would Rather their kids learn math and spelling and history..
Those parents are CRIMINALS! and will be sent to prison and have their children taken
Randi will start worrying about kids.. Just as soon as kids start paying union dues
The great Satan she is though give some credit to Democrat politicians since they locked up parents who objected to the school’s matchmaking between their kids and the pedophiles who want to fuck them…
Randi Weingarten and her cabal of sycophants exist to keep the taxpayers’ money rolling into the public school system and raising teacher pay, thence keeping the union dues spigot wide open to flow into her and the unions pockets, along with buying Democrats (local and national) to keep the taxpayers’ money flowing back into the public schools. During the Jim Doyle era as Wisconsin’s governor, he not only refused to give his state employees modest pay raises, but he also made state employees take unpaid furloughs (thus, a pay cut). As a WI state employee, I was a member of a local union affiliated with the AFT. As I was taking this pay cut, Randi Weingarten was earning as AFT President $600,000 per year, money appropriated from our paychecks by the union. Randi and other union leaders never said a peep against their bought governor about this pay cut. In fact, as I was absorbing this pay cut, the AFT sent us union members a letter raising our monthly dues as their “costs of doing business” were rising. I assume this meant Randi wanted a pay raise. As this was around a decade and a half ago, I can only imagine that her annual salary is now over $1M. Act 10 freed me from a union that did absolutely nothing for me other than suck money out of my pocket. I also suspect that AFT has poured a ton of money into the Regressive (TM) Wisconsin Supreme Court justices that have been elected over the past several years with the sole intention of getting Act 10 declared “unconstitutional” even though previous court challenges have upheld this law.
"When schoolchildren start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of schoolchildren." -- attributed to Albert Shanker, president of the United Federation of Teachers from 1964 to 1985 and president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) from 1974 to 1997.
Actually she’s arguing that doing even more of what’s driving families away from public education will magically bring them back.
I was a member of the AFT 30 years ago. The only reason I joined was because of the insurance that came along with membership. The union would have your back if some parent tried to sue you. In hindsight, the insurance angle was just used to coerce teachers to join up. I never knew or heard of a teacher being sued. Maybe it’s different now.
She locked comments so no one can respond under her post, but there are 2.4k QUOTE TWEETS telling her exactly what the problems are.
If you click on “2.4k quotes,” you can read the responses there.
. And forget math, even making change is a lost art.
math is a process. Making change is a process. A. start with the sales amount B. add quarters, dimes, nickles, pennies, to get to even dollar amount. C. add singles to get to 5's, 10's, 20's D. Stop when you hit dollar amount of the money handed to you.
The problem today is teacher seem to think education is more art that process. Constantly trying to let little Johnny find his answer, his way. They tried to do that with our daughter in the first grade. We told the teacher she would just guess at words, and we would help her sound them out. The teacher warned us, such instruction stifled her imagination, and she would hate to read. We told the teacher she was nuts, and the girls evolved into such a voracious reader, we had to limit her access to book, or she would do nothing but read.
There is a place for process.
School gun violence.
Don't know about Gotham, but most schools would be better off just allowing the teaches that want to arm themselves, to be allowed. Lots of States and Districts have been doing just that since some of earliest shootings. There have been no down side to the practice.
It's important to acknowledge and understand that not all school systems are the same. Some are great, some are lousy and most are ... "OK."
It is up to the citizens paying for their schools (taxes) to be active, loud and forceful as they work to get rid of the lousy teachers and administrators and buildings.
Weinergarden is a leftist, and she has zero desire to change the current course of American education. She is the Commaisar of Education, we average people are the Kulak's to her. She's going to give you leftwing boilerplate if you point out flaws in the system.
You recently had a case in las vegas, where a young man was beaten to death by 15 other students. Supposedly, he had intervened and stopped the bullying of a smaller friend. If he'd gone to private school or was being homeschooled, he'd still be alive.
I'd prefer people stay in the schools and fight for good public schools, but I can't blame parents for taking their kids out. We did.
dbp said...
“What I'd like to know is why the AFT puts up with a president who gets massively ratioed every time she Tweets?”
Probably for similar reasons as to why the Republicans put up with Ronna McDaniel.
Randi Weingarten has a notorious LONG history for making it impossible to reply to her tweets.
A practice also used by leftist media thugs, and corrupt leftist professors.
What's stopping more robust anti-bullying regulations? Also, define special needs.
I say, don't force the trouble-makers to go to school. Suspend and expel them. Declare those expelled legal adults for the purpose of criminal prosecution and jail them if they break the law. Should disincentivize the disruptions. Another thing I may consider is banning cell phones. Kids could have them at school, but they'd only be able to use them in designated areas in case of emergency. Otherwise, put them in one of those magnetically locked bags like at a Dave Chapelle show.
"I don't pay for Twitter, so thus haven't seen replies to Tweets in well over 6 months. It sucks without replies, I no longer bother to visit."
I don't pay for twitter and I see replies just fine.
Just read the Twitchy site once a day to see all of the stupidity of the prog left and their media enablers held to task.
@althouse
I think she is referring to quote tweets, since she restricted replies.
On my laptop, I can go to her tweet and click "Repost" and I get a list of options to Repost or Quote or View Quotes. If you view quotes you can see where people have replied by typing their tweet with the quoted tweet just below the reply. (Hope I'm not over-explaining this. I didn't know about quote tweets for a long time.)
She restricted replies to her followers after she was dragged repeatedly in Quote Tweets saying: It's you Randi.
It's not just the increase in homeschooling. For kids enrolled in public school, attendance is plummeting. Rates of chronically absent children in my district have jumped from 1.8% in 2018-19 to 9.8% today. That's right, nearly 1 out of 10 students are just not showing up.
When my daughter was about four, my wife and I both realized that it was nearing time for the whole school thing, but we were both reluctant to bring it up. Finally, one night, I just blurted it out, that I didn't think we should send her to school. I was expecting the worst fight of our marriage, extending over months or years. But she just said, "Me neither. So what do we do instead?". The answer to that question turned out to be almost entirely satisfactory. The alternative is better in just about every conceivable way. She's 19 now, working and thinking about college.
"When children pay union dues I will care about children"
Albert Shanker, previous president of AFT. Randi is following his lead.
I recently walked into a fast food restaurant staffed by recent graduates of a public education high school. I tried to convince the staff, and manager, that a 1/3 pound burger was larger than a 1/4 pound burger. They argued that it couldn't be so. 4, you see, is larger than 3!
Great job, Randi!
Question for Randi:
How many home schooled kids have been beaten to death by 15 of their classmates?
I believe the number is zero.
“You recently had a case in las vegas, where a young man was beaten to death by 15 other students. Supposedly, he had intervened and stopped the bullying of a smaller friend. If he'd gone to private school or was being homeschooled, he'd still be alive.”
Daughter was bullied a bit in 3rd grade in a private school. It was the usual girl bullying - one week the other girl would be their best friend, then couldn’t stand them the next week. Rinse and repeat. Pretty minor. Until their teacher figured it out. The two bullied girls got bully proofing training, and the bully was counseled about her bullying. And the bully was put in other classes until middle school. It worked. Daughter never faced bullying again three, through graduation from HS. The school had a zero tolerance policy for bullying. One of the things we paid for, along with the most AP classes in the state, and mandatory athletics.
If she had gone to public school, she likely would have ended up at Columbine HS, with its IB program. It was the next HS east, and neighboring kids attended for the IB program, so they could have car pooled. She knew neighbors going there, and the football players were still bouncing boys they considered weak against the lockers (which had been done to the two shooters there a decade earlier).
Modern schools protect bullies who game the system. Both my grandsons were suspended from school for fighting back while the bullies had no punishment. It isn't who starts the fight, it's who finishes it that gets in trouble. This is what happens when you take men out of the teaching profession
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Khan Academy
Free courses online in subjects from pre-kinder to college. I did a calculus course some years back. Grandkids, 5 and 7, pre-kinder and 1st, use it in their christian private school. They LOVE it and blow me away with how advanced they are. the 5 year old knows addition tables to 10 cold. Can do addition of double digits though not as well. Can do subtraction but still learning. and can do some multiplication.
When they come to the house they want to borrow my tablet to do Khan Academy stuff.
KA has reading programs but these 2 seem to favor DuaLingua.
John Henry
Does anyone complain that the head of the autoworkers union does not have us drivers and car owners best interests at heart?
Ditto any other union.
Could someone please explain to me why the education of children should be any different?
Weingarten is doing exactly what she is being paid to do. Get the best deal for the people who pay her salary.
Want someone to represent parents and students? Run for school board. Or campaign for someone who believes as you do for school board.
How many commenters here even know who is on your school board?
John Henry
I see a notice: “Who can reply? Accounts @rweingarten follows or mentions can reply”
Welcome to the Echo Chamber. She seems afraid of debate.
If the American Left valued honesty over corruption they would admit teachers unions are a primary cause of structural racism in America.
I never ceased to be amazed by people who think we simply forgot what they did for more than two years.
It's not gaslighting. It's fucking lying. Shamelessly.
"She seems afraid of debate."
Leftists don't debate. That would require the ability to understand and formulate a logical response to criticism. And no- memorizing talking points doesn't count.
Just because the lefties and their elite live in an alternative universe doesn't exclude the possibility that they are evil, venomous liars - particularly in Weingarten's case.
Just because the lefties and their elite live in an alternative universe doesn't exclude the possibility that they are evil, venomous liars - particularly in Weingarten's case.
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