JAMES LINDSAY: Loving parents are the counterrevolution

the education system is very important to the Left.  They need it for a lot of different reasons.  They need it to indoctrinate the children.  They don't care about you, right? They're not trying to change your mind or my mind.  They just want your kids.  They're not having their own children, so they need your kids.  --Tiffany Justice

Ever wonder how the Left will take your kids?  By giving them everything.  Just as the war on your biology did not come from a tank battalion out on the Mojave Desert but came in the form of a pseudo-legal framework that stripped you of informed consent [btw, consent does not exist unless you are informed], so too communism will come to schools in the form of government goodies.  

Loving parents are the counterrevolution. https://t.co/s6E0GkgkOK

— James Lindsay, full varsity (@ConceptualJames) April 10, 2024

The speaker's name is Tiffany Justice.

It's really important in this time right now that we understand the education system is very important to the Left.  They need it for a lot of different reasons.  They need it to indoctrinate the children.  They don't care about you, right? They're not trying to change your mind or my mind.  They just want your kids.  They're not having their own children, so they need your kids.  That's just the truth.  But right now, perfectly poised on my way here in the Uber, I was looking on Twitter and there was a posting for the American Federation of Teachers.  That's Randi Weingarten [who is married to Sharon Kleinbaum], the second-largest teachers union next to the National Education Association.  But they were talking about Community Schools.  So for anyone who doesn't know what community schools are, Community Schools equals communism.  In this tweet, if you go to the AFT's Twitter page right now, or X page, you can see they talk about how they want to give your kids everything from clean clothes at school to food to prom dresses to full-service school-based health clinics.  And that is the goal.  When Randi Weingarten was brought in front of Congress and asked about learning losses during COVID, she said the answer is Community Schools.  We need to have more wrap-around services.  

Folks, there is not enough money in the world to take these schools and to have them raise everyone's children.  We will never be able to take the federal government out of Education.  And so to your point about abolishing or dismantling the Department of Education, we need to do that, we need to do that now because the federal government is very much looking for that opportunity right now to be able to expand their footprint into the states.  And to your point about local control, you lose it.  Right now a state takes anywhere between 3% and 16% of its funding from the federal government.  Now imagine that that number continues to increase to 25% to 30% to 40%, how do you cut them out?  How do you stop delivering those services in your community when no one else exists to serve them?  They bring in all the Community Partners and the nonprofits.  It's quite the racket.  So I just say this to you, to say parents we are on to something.  We caught them.  I saw behind the education curtain when I was on school board and then COVID happened.  And all of America saw behind the education curtain.  And now we've got their number, and they are not done trying to silence us because they know how incredibly powerful parents are.  

Randi Weingarten: Full of Hypocrisy, Full of Slogans

Randi Weingarten admits teachers are social justice warriors as she attacks Republicans https://t.co/zWsflTeeFE

— Daily Mail US (@DailyMail) September 3, 2022

I have been saying this for years.  It seems odd to see this admitted in print.  But the headline leaves out a starker truth: that teachers are not just social justice warriors, but that they are foot soldiers for the Democratic Party.  Even more brazen is the fact that the head of the main teachers' union in the United States is admitting this without any embarrassment or conscience.  What's worse is the fact that she is lying.  She's lying about the timing of this "social justice" warriorism trend.  Weingarten argues that teachers have become social justice warriors of late because Republicans have run campaigns across the country to ban "woke" books and issues.  She blames politicians for turning teachers into social justice warriors.  Maybe.  But the union itself is responsible for turning teachers into woke warriors.  You don't automatically respect someone solely because they belong to a group.  You don't respect teachers because they're a teacher.  Some are sadistic, many are bad teachers.  "Politicians have turned teachers into 'social justice warriors."  Hardly.  The unions turn teachers into warriors.  Deserving or not, they see how their largesse has improved because of education and because they're working with kids whom they place on a similar scale of impoverishment, they start seeing the kids as their equal.  Many teachers were groomed to be social justice warriors in college and the university.  To cite the banning of The Diary of Anne Frank without adequate reason is stunning, self-serving deceit.  

Apparently, in a hall meeting, Weingarten said that "People would want to be teachers if they knew they'd be respected."  She's got it completely backwards.  You don't tell people to respect something or someone before they've met them or before they've considered the topic.  That is so horse before the cart that I can't even begin to state it.  She is not qualified to be the speaker for anything educational if she gets that wrong.  Respect is earned.  If it's a general respect toward people, that's one thing.  If it's a general respect toward a class of people or toward representatives in an industry, like basketball players for their height or physical abilities, that's different.  And this is the kind of thing that inexperienced kids might do.  But to expect them to respect their teachers?  There's no real evidence that they can do that.  Teachers are about reinforcing control.  Teachers are about physical discipline.  True enough, kids can respect disciplined teachers, for sure, they can respect the authority, but that's it.  And respect for authority is mainly about respecting fear.  

She goes on, 

She also stated . . . that teachers are burnt out because they are required to be 'masks police' and regulate what they can teach. 

The teachers and their union were fully behind masking kids [and vaccinating teachers] and thoroughly supported the lockdowns.  It's a sloppy job at damage control.  Where does she get off playing the victims to circumstances that she created?  Yeah, that extra monitoring assignment can be bad.  Then don't implement it, Randi.   

She went on: 'That has been what has created some of the burnout. And that's not parents. That's politicians. Parents just want the best for their kids. And so do the teachers.' 

Saying "Parents want the best for their kids" is so vague that it's not even funny.  Like most politicians, Rand is full of slogans.