Teachers Union don't really care about teaching or kids

As much as Fox News has swung from center right to center left as seen by them calling Arizona prematurely in the presidential race, and Neil Cavuto cutting off Kayleigh McEnany after one minute of discussing election fraud, you have to give them credit for Martha MacCallum challenging Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers. 

MacCallum pressed the overpaid Union head over New York City's scientifically baseless decision to close public schools to in-person classroom teaching. 

City officials declared Wednesday that schools would be closed indefinitely starting Thursday after the seven-day average coronavirus infection rate for the five boroughs ticked above 3%. This is in spite of the fact that children below the age of 10 are highly unlikely to contract the virus, and if they do, they have an enormously high survival rate that greatly exceeds that of the flu. And schools are not closed down during flu season. 

Also, there are no cases in which teachers were infected by students and succumbed to the virus as a result.

Weingarten admitted that while evidence has shown that in-person classes are not "superspreading events", "the problem is that schools are not impervious to all that is going on in the outside.

"What the mayor [comrade Bill de Blasio] saw today, or the last couple of days, is that in Staten Island and other regions in the city, you were seeing a trajectory [of cases] that was going way up," Weingarten added. "And so what [United Federation of Teachers President Mike Mulgrew] and others are saying to the city, begging the city [is] 'wear your mask, get the infection rate down, because we want schools to be safe.'"

Pro Tip: Danish studies have shown that masks are useless in preventing contagion.

The back-and-forth went like this:

"No, the schools need to be open, is the point," McCallum responded. "The kids need to be in the schools ... it sounds like the union doesn't want the teachers in the classroom and the mayor doesn't want the teachers in the classroom. The parents clearly want the teachers in the classroom and the CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] wants them in the classroom."

"Martha, you're actually not listening to me," Weingarten responded. "What has happened here is that New York City was the only major school district in the nation to actually reopen schools --

"But they're closing now, Randi," MacCallum shot back. "Why are they closing?"

"They're closing now," Weingarten replied, "because what the city said and frankly, what lots of other places are are also seeing, is a huge skyrocketing increase -- "

"OK, now you're not listening to me," MacCallum jumped in. "You're not listening to the science here, Randi.

"Yes, everyone agrees we see a spike. We're in a second wave. You and I totally agree on that," the host went on. "What they're telling us, though, is that the wisest scientific move is to have children in school, because what we're seeing is a tremendous loss of learning.

"We're seeing kids who are emotionally unstable because they're not in the classroom, because they're not seeing their friends, and we know from the studies -- this isn't me saying this, this is Brown University and other studies -- that the transmission rate is very, very low. It's a great news story. It's a great news story what happened when you opened the schools. The kids made out very, very well. That's wonderful news. They should stay there."

"I agree. I agree with you," Weingarten answered. "And what the UFT is trying to do is that they're trying to figure out a regional way of opening and closing like they did after -- "

"They don't need to close, that's the point!" McCallum exclaimed. "They don't need to close, is the point."

Weingarten had no pithy reply and the My Pillow guy did his thing.



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