American Federation of Teachers Union President Randi Weingarten is deeply unhappy that the Department of Education will be eliminated. If we have learned anything over the past decade it’s that Miss Weingarten is always deeply unhappy. She was born that way. The idea of the Education Department being eliminated has made her so deeply unhappy that she has gone full drama club and started “chewing the scenery”.

While Randi Weingarten has actually now said that she’s “really angry” over the Ed. Department elimination, but back in December she said that her members didn’t really care about the Department of Education when President Trump first floated Linda McMahon as the Secretary. It was all about the Benjamins.

Now, she’s afraid she’ll lose those precious dollars that fund the layers and layers of bureaucracy and compliance that keep children from learning and teachers from teaching. Here’s the video:

Criminy, Katie Phang should be doing the morning commute report from Saulsbury, Tennessee (pop. 81). She’s got the brains of the mouse that tried to get inside my house yesterday. But, Randi Weingarten is off her nut angry pounding the table and saying she’s angry, angry. Ben Bartee of PJ Media writes it the best:

You can see her practicing in the mirror — the Hitler-esque fist slamming on the table, the theatrically exasperated voice, the rhetorical non-apology apology (“sorry, I’m just really mad about this”) — to hit every note just right, to stir the emotions of MSNBC’s lobotomized viewers to maximum effect.

In other words, a phony or an actor chewing on the scenery:

Here is more of the conversation from Real Clear Politics:

So it’s federal money that disproportionately goes to red states. That actually is opportunity. So when somebody says, “DEI,” it’s opportunity. It’s so we can create that ladder of opportunity. It’s so we can make sure that kids can succeed – poor kids, kids with disabilities, kids who want to go to career tech ed, kids who are first-generation college goers – to get some scholarship money. That’s what the Department of Education does. And that’s why you’re seeing, across the country, people saying, “90% of the kids in America go to public schools.” They know what Title I is. They know what IDEA is. The federal government does not control education. The states do. Local school boards do. This is about opportunity.

Before the Department of Education is shuttered, every program that is of value to any student will be redesignated to another department or entity. The problem is too many kids at every socioeconomic portion can’t read or do math. Remember when the kids were on remote during Covid? Remember when Weingarten the Whiner lied and said that she fought to keep schools open then??

Here is the end of the transcript from Real Clear Politics:

Sorry, I’m really angry about this because I’m really angry. I taught kids in Clara Barton High School in Brooklyn, New York. Virtually all of them got Title I funds. I taught AP Gov. One of the things that they just cut was the “We the People” competition, which was taught in ruby-red districts like Van Wert, Ohio, and deep-blue districts like my district. Why, if we need civics, would you cut the We the People competition? It’s $11 million. Why would you do that?

MSNBC HOST: Because they want the people to be ignorant. They want the people to not have a proper basis of education, and they want to make sure that the disadvantaged stay disadvantaged.

Who is more ignorant Randi Weingarten or Katie Phang? Don’t answer. Jonathan Turley thinks the reason Randi is angry about the Department of Education is because using the education money parents might have their children educated in a fashion not approved by the Union:

In a podcast, Weingarten explained that they have to avoid such “block grants” going to families. Host Molly Jong-Fast readily agreed, raising the danger that it might even support Catholic and religious schools. Weingarten stressed that “We know, for example, what Texas would do. They’ll use it for vouchers. So they won’t give [federal funding] to the kids who have it now, they’ll just give it for vouchers.”

There is reason for Weingarten and the teacher’s union being so concerned. Florida allows for school choice and has demanded greater performance from public schools. Despite attacks by Weingarten and other Democrats, Florida has been ranked as the number one state for both education and the economy.

There you have it, folks. Your kids won’t be inculcated in a way the state approves. Cry harder, Randi.

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