Weingarten: Free money today, reform tomorrow. I promise. � The Quick and the Ed

Weingarten: Free money today, reform tomorrow. I promise. � The Quick and the Ed

Weingarten: Free money today, reform tomorrow. I promise.

by Forrest Hinton

This past weekend I was making a few personal-life stops in the state with the lowest union representation in the nation. Using the long stretches of travel through misty forests and freshly planted fields to catch up on reading, I came across AFT President Randi Weingarten’s teacher bailout pitch in Thursday’s opinion section of the WSJ.
Allowing myself to lose complete touch with reality for just a moment, I started to consider whether it is possible that R.W. is genuinely concerned with outstanding young teachers losing their jobs. After all, she wrote:

There is much good going on in our public schools. I have seen countless teachers putting their hearts and souls into their jobs, working long hours well beyond the school day, ready to do what it takes to provide their students with an excellent education. They belong in their classrooms, not