You might be thinking it is someone who won a huge financial windfall. Or someone who survived a catastrophic accident with barely a scratch. Or a mother who had her child reunited with her after years of separation because of being kidnapped. No, the luckiest person in America is none of those things. This person runs one of the largest public entities and gets away with untold malevolent acts because she is barely known to the public.
How does this person hide from the public? She runs an operation that has a parallel operation. The head of that other organization dwarfs the lucky person’s public persona by being outrageously offensive in her actions, so much so that she obscures said lucky person’s heinous acts.
The person that provides cover for the lucky one is Randi Weingarten. She has been president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) since 2008. The group has approximately 1.8 million members. If you hear or think about unionized teachers, it is Weingarten who you hear about. She has been the face of teachers’ unions almost exclusively since taking the reins. If the Press wants a quote bashing President Trump, she is where the Press runs to and she is ready to say something nasty. Most often she doesn’t need to be urged; it is of her own volition.
If you want a grasp of how Weingarten has devolved over the years all you have to do is refer to her recent book, Why Fascists Fear Teachers. She is not referring to people in 1930’s Europe. She references today’s conservatives in America. While on MSNBC to pimp her book she stated the United States is currently under a “Nazi Occupation.” You would think Weingarten might know better than to invoke a statement like that. She claims to be an observant Jew, and she is married to a Rabbi.
Weingarten could very well be America’s most divisive woman. She is constantly churning division and never takes responsibility for any of the failings of public schools. This is especially true in America’s largest cities where the children who suffer from those failings are mostly black and brown.
The person who is shielded from Weingarten’s misdeeds is the president of the much larger (approximately 3 million members) National Education Association (NEA). Rebecca Pringle, known as Becky, took over as head of the NEA in September 2020. By that time Weingarten was going all in by attacking private schools along with almost any changes to the failing public schools in which her members work.
A perfect example of Weingarten running protection for Pringle happened in 2021. When the unions were lobbying the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in 2021 for continuing the hated school shutdowns, Weingarten – not Pringle — was the face of that. Records show that Pringle also was in constant contact with CDC Director Rochelle Wallensky.
Pringle was right there when the teacher’s unions wrangled $170.3 billion out of Biden in 2021’s misnamed “American Rescue Plan Act.” While she and her cohorts were campaigning to shut down the schools, they got a bucket full of cash to be handed out to their nonworking members. But you barely saw Pringle’s name anywhere and the ever-vociferous Weingarten was the face of all action.
Becky did raise a stir of her own. Concurrent with the signed peace plan regarding Gaza which a large portion of the Arab and European world endorsed (thirty countries were present in support), the NEA released their own map of the world. The map omitted the existence of Israel and labeled the area “Palestine.” It was sent to every NEA member. The NEA later removed the map and blamed a third party for creating the map.
To further amplify the NEA’s anti-Semitic tilt, they were the main force fighting the passing of a law in California that restricts Jew hatred in public schools. Even the pandering Gallivanting Gavin rejected their arguments and signed the bill. You can add anti-Semitism to racist to describe Becky’s union.
Becky, you are the head of the union. That makes you responsible for all of its actions. Here is a suggestion for you for the future when you do something wrong like that. Do the three steps. This is what you say – We are sorry, it is our fault, and we fixed it. Don’t slough it off on others and don’t have your underlings out making excuses for you.
If you want to get a barometer of how Randi gives cover to Becky, just pull up their Wiki pages. Becky’s is really short. Randi’s goes on and on. Becky is no less radical than Randi and has a lot more members under her influence.
If Weingarten is America’s most divisive woman, what is Pringle? Educate yourself on Pringle. She and her union are as destructive to our public-school systems as Weingarten, probably even more. 1.2 million members more.
