Ed Deformer Compares Weingarten To Osama Bin Laden And Teachers To Pedophiles at Huff Po

[Hannah Bell]

What Teachers' Unions, the Pope and Osama Bin Laden Have in Common

"Number 2: American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten is about to join Osama bin Laden on the list of Most Despised People in America. And if even one tenth of Guggenheim's film is to be believed, then this distinction is well earned and well deserved...

As I watched American Federation of Teachers union president Randi Weingarten deflect question, after question about failing and at times abusive teachers (in the film and on MSNBCs recent education special), I found myself overcome by a feeling of deja vu. Her denial, sense of entitlement and talking points all felt awfully familiar.

Then I realized why. It was as though she and Pope Benedict, head of the Catholic Church, are operating from the same playbook; a playbook that has hurt untold numbers of children while the adults entrusted to protect them shamelessly cover their own backsides. A playbook in which the primary play is this: Defend and protect the very worst in our profession at all costs, even if it costs all of us our reputation and the trust of the masses in the long run."


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/keli-goff/what-teachers-unions-the-_b_741880.html


In fact, if this Keli woman could actually read, she would know that NOBODY in the union movement has given more on labor issues to the ed deformers than Randi Weingarten.

Hell, Rod Paige said Randi is his favorite labor leader.

Secretary Arne loves Duncan too.

For that matter, so does Joel Klein.

They all love Randi because she is, in Klein's words, willing to deal on everything - from merit pay to work rules to tenure and seniority (see Washington D.C. contract for that sell-out.)

But apparently this Keli woman, not too bright, not too informed, and not trying to improve upon either of those scores, is content to buy the demonization of Weingarten from the Waiting for Superman movie and spew that meme wide and far.

That she has a platform at whatever little blog she writes at is bad enough.

That Arianna Huffington gives her a larger platform from which to regurgitate the half-truths and silly jive she saw in a Wile E. Coyote cartoon is really problematic.

Come on, Arianna, I know you hate teachers and teachers unions.

http://perdidostreetschool.blogspot.com/2010/09/ed-deformer-compares-weingarten-to.html

[Luminous Animal]

1. Teachers Union = Osama. Republican Ron Paige also said that teachers unions were terrorrists...

Apparently, there are DUers who agree given the unrecs.

[Hannah Bell]

2. it's all the teachers fault. i know. the powerful teachers & their powerful union.