Randi Weingarten is having a melt down.  She often does — such are the optics necessary for political theater.

And that’s exactly what Weingarten is into; the political theater associated with the big money that gets poured into the Department of Education every year.

Which makes a few people richer and more powerful, and does almost everything wrong for our nations kids.

Full disclosure — I’m a Dad of 4 (almost 5), and we homeschool to the max.

But I went to public schools K-12, just like most of you did, and I speak from experience when I say… the federal government shouldn’t have a single thing to say about the local school system.

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They shouldn’t be able to leverage curriculum with dollars, and they shouldn’t be able to give American tax payers’ money away — at all.

That local school board has a job — let them do it!  That local School superintendent and principal have jobs — let them do them!  And each teacher has a responsibility as part of their paying job — LET THEM DO THEM!

The federal government has one singular job as it relates to any public schools in America — get out of the way, and let the local community handle the job at hand.

Randi Weingarten, head of the Teacher’s Union (AFT) doesn’t agree with me on those points.

And she is melting down right now, because President Trump is making moves to actually abolish the federal Department of Education; something I never thought I would see in my lifetime.

I’m still of the mind that homeschooling is without a doubt the best path for 99.9% of families, but if you’re going to have a public school… at least make it a truly INDEPENDENT school district, not just one in name only!

As one of my favorite preachers is know for saying, you can’t keep sending your kids to Caesar and expect them not to turn into Romans.

Weingarten is a full-blooded Roman, in Biblical terms.

Lesbian, no kids, and she’s not even a teacher — but she thinks she knows best for your kids; and she’s determined to hang on to her power (and money).

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Here she is melting down on MSNBC:

I know there are people who actually believe that President Trump is all about pulling money from kids in order to create tax cuts for billionaires.

But first, that makes no sense.

Secondly, Weingarten is not one of the people who actually believe that.

She’s just using it for her attack platform, which makes her utterly despicable because she knows that OTHER people WILL believe it.

And then she took the line of reasoning that States and “localities” run education, and the federal government should not.

That should be true, but it is not.  And she knows that’s a lie as well.

It’s just that she knows she has to deflate the primary argument against her, and that’s the big one.

And as we know, progressive democrats are not above lying.

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And with President Trump eyeing moves to abolish the Department of Education, Weingarten is doing all she can to argue against those moves, according to a report in Fox News:

The head of the nation’s second-largest teachers’ labor union warned there could be legal complications and privacy risks if President Donald Trump’s administration is successful in dismantling the Department of Education.

The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that Trump officials are mulling executive actions to eliminate the department as part of the Department of Government Efficiency’s task to shrink the federal government.

According to the report, Trump advisers are debating an executive order that “would shut down all functions of the agency that aren’t written explicitly into statute or move certain functions to other departments,” and would call for a legislative proposal to fully abolish the department.

During an appearance on CNN on Tuesday, president of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten, said what Trump was doing was illegal, and she expressed concerns about privacy risks involved with the overhaul of the federal agency.

Weingarten denied the agency handled curriculum in schools but served as more of a financial aid office.

Weingarten also argued that eliminating the Education Department could create privacy risks.

“Nobody elected Donald Trump or Elon Musk to take their private information,” Weingarten warned.

Of course, some of us partly did vote for President Trump because DOGE needed to happen, and entire federal agencies and departments needed to get tossed in the trash.

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And I highly doubt President Trump’s team prepared so much in advance, and yet forget to maintain the strictest security and privacy protocols in keeping with law.

If they hadn’t, democrats would have been able to stop them on those points by now.  They haven’t… because there’s no sticking point there; it’s all talk and bluster.

The entire privacy argument is nothing but a selling point to try to rile up public opinion against the Trump administration.

And Weingarten has been making the rounds, lobbying to keep the status quo.

Here she was on CNN within the same 24 hour period:

It’s hard to take her serious.

Not only is she not a parent, or a teacher, but she also is far more of a political hack than anything resembling an advocate for kids.

She is a politician with a political agenda, and it tends to be far left and anti-Trump.

Here she is last year during the opening session of the Teachers Union Convention:

That’s not the plea of a parent or even a good teacher; that’s the politically-charged message of the far-left democrats, and nothing more.

If you could tell, I’m having a hard time feeling sorry for her and the loss of funds she stands to lose if President Trump does abolish the Dept. of Education.

Overall, about $857 billion dollars is spent each year on K-12 education in the United States, with little to show for it according to a story in the Daily Caller:

American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten suggested without evidence Tuesday that President Donald Trump is snatching money away from funding public education to give to “billionaires.”

The Trump administration has reportedly begun drafting an executive order to eliminate the Department of Education (DOE) and direct Congress to pass legislation to officially dissolve the agency, after having repeatedly stated that public education should be managed by states. Weingarten claimed that Trump intends to use the money directed toward public schools and allocate it toward tax cuts for billionaires.

“Congress appropriates the money directly for these kids. Where’s the money going? Who’s taking it? Are they trying to take that money that kids get for tax cuts for billionaires? What’s going on? That’s why we have to see what they’re doing. It is illegal to take that money out of children’s mouths and give it to billionaires,” Weingarten said.

The AFT president further said the education system needs the federal government to make necessary changes.

Federal, state and local governments spend roughly $857.2 billion on K-12 public education annually, though students’ test scores in core subjects have continued to plummet since the COVID-19 pandemic. The federal government spent a record $190 billion in aid to schools since the pandemic, but the funds have thus far failed to improve children’s testing scores.

Maybe it’s time to take that cash flow out of the reach of bureaucrats, politicians, and the money-changers… and raise the bar on education in America?

We did it once, and it wasn’t based on progressive curriculum or top-down centralized control.

It was based on a comprehensive holistic approach to learning, starting from infant to adulthood, and it wasn’t intended to stop.

We once fostered a love of learning in this nation so intense that some of the greatest achievements of human history came out of it, for the good of all mankind.

But we didn’t do it on a school system created to produce cogs for a system; we did it before that upheaval, when the focus was on critical thinking, communication, and logic.

The idea of a “liberal arts” degree is all but lost to us, nowadays.  But the totality of putting oneself through the paces and becoming well versed in things like rhetoric and the Socratic method; those things would do us well to rediscover, and gift to our children.

That will never happen at the hands of the federal government, or the U.S. Department of Education.

But it can happen if the federal government can be gotten out of the way enough that individuals, families, and communities can relearn what a well-rounded education looks like — and then do that.

And Randi Weingarten notwithstanding, we may be just about to get there after all.

This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here.
 

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