'RWeingarten has been brutally slammed for her obvious deceptions, but this week, PolitiFact incredibly came to her rescue. Omitting all of the crucial context of what happened from 2020 to 2022, the website tried to split the baby.' -dcexaminer
Last week, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten testified before a House Oversight subcommittee investigating the government's response to the coronavirus pandemic. Incredibly, one of the nation's foremost opponents of reopening schools, heading an organization that did nothing but resist reopening schools, delivered testimony straight out of opposite world.
Weingarten's actions during the pandemic, not her carefully hedged and slippery words in media interviews, are the true measure. And they tell the story of how she and her union fought, at all levels and by whatever means were available, to resist a return to in-person instruction for as long as possible and in as many places as possible.
This hyperbolic quotation came in July 2020, by which time it was already clear that learning loss was a huge problem and the spread of the coronavirus through schools was not. PolitiFact tried to downplay this — as if the real problem had been that there wasn't a sufficient safety plan in place. But this wasn't the real problem. The real problem was that Trump wanted schools to prepare to reopen in the fall.
In February 2021, long after most school districts had already reopened, Weingarten used her organization's influence with the Biden Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to make its officials reverse their scientific determination that schools should reopen.
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