Professor Lois Weiner dismantles Randi Weingarten’s calamitous and undemocratic decisions to back a severely flawed candidate. Decisions that, in turn, led to Trump’s victory. This brilliant essay is a must read.
Friday, November 11, 2016
Trump’s Victory: What American Federation of Teachers President Weingarten should say
Robert D. Skeels is a social liberation writer, attorney, public education advocate, immigrant rights activist, and law professor. He lives, works, writes, and organizes in Los Angeles with his wife and cats. Robert holds a BA in Classical Civilization from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), a JD from Peoples College of Law (PCL), and passed the California Bar Exam on his first attempt. A US Navy Veteran, he is a proud member of Veterans for Peace. A student of Liberation Theology and Paulo Freire's work, Robert volunteers for community and 12 step groups. Robert's articles and essays appear in publications including Jacobin, Truthout, CounterPunch, Dissident Voice, Schools Matter, Daily Censored, Regeneración, K12NN, LA Progressive, and The Los Angeles Daily News. In 2013 Robert ran for the LAUSD School Board against a billionaire funded corporate reform candidate, finishing second in a field of five, with over 5,200 votes.
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A key target in my kindergarten instruction is learning to differentiate between fiction and nonfiction. While Dr. Weiner earns high marks for creating a fantasy, it is important that we not delude ourselves into imagining that Ms. Weingarten is an advocate for public education. On the contrary, she has yet to miss an opportunity to collude with corporate reformers. Weingarten may be experiencing anguish over the election results due to her disappointment in not achieving her dream of becoming Secretary of Education. Cry no tears for the demise of Secretary Clinton and her neoliberal agenda designed to protect the wealthy and their sycophants. Clinton and the DNC conspired to thwart the campaign of Senator Sanders. Even in her concession speach, Clinton could not own up to her responsibility for being a flawed candidate. Instead she pointed to a divided nation. In actuality, those she termed a basket of deplorables united to defeat her. If Weingarten had any integrity, she would step down, but we need not entertain that possibility. As for me, I am heading back to the reality zone.
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