Teachers’ union chief Randi Weingarten equated parents who seek alternatives to traditional public schools to segregationists, a comparison that didn’t sit well with conservatives, starting with Sen. Tim Scott.
equated parents who seek alternatives to traditional public schools to segregationists, a comparison that didn’t sit well with conservatives, starting with Sen. Tim Scott.
“I can’t think of anything more racist than teachers’ unions trapping poor Black kids in failing schools in big blue cities,” Mr. Scott said in a Thursday tweet. “Ms. Weingarten said in an interview that school-choice advocates like former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and the late Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman have used the “same words” as 1950s-era segregationists, namely “choice” and “parental rights.
Her comments came during a blogcast interview posted Tuesday with Seth D. Harris, senior fellow at the Burnes Center for Social Change at Northeastern University.“I was kind of gobsmacked when I was talking to Southern Poverty Law Center and they showed me the same words — choice, parental rights — and attempt to divide parents versus teachers,” she said. “At that point it was White parents versus other parents. But it’s the same kind of words.
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