Leo finally comes around.
I’m not sure who it was that AFT leader Leo Casey had in mind when he argues against those who say we should only talk to those who agree with us.
Who said that?
For starters, I talk with our board, and have done so in negotiations for over two decades, and we don’t always agree.
I even talk to Leo.
And I know that those of us who criticized the AFT for inviting Bill Gates to their convention last year didn’t do it on the basis that we should never talk to those who we disagree with. That’s a straw man that would make Dorothy proud.
And it wasn’t as if Gates only became outspoken in his anti-teacher pronouncements after AFT President Randi