Randi Weingarten keeps digging a deeper hole

Teachers are tired; they are exhausted. We have to find a way to repair and nourish them as well as families in terms of attracting and retaining our teaching force, American Federation of Teachers boss Randi Weingarten whined Friday. We guess she s trying the pity us card after the naked lies one fell flat.

Just last month, the union was still publicly lobbying hard to put the brakes on getting kids back in classrooms full-time. Heck, Weingarten infamously used her White House pull to force the Centers for Disease Control to adopt verbatim the AFT s wildly overcautious language on safely reopening schools.

Among her absurd excuses for why so many public schools failed to follow private and parochial schools in reopening long ago, she actually insisted that (as Reason s Matt Welch notes) government-run schools uniquely lack enough soap and hot water to keep everyone safe.

Parents fed up with classroom closures and Zoom school responded rapidly on social media to Weingarten s absurdities. My kids are getting 2 hours twice a week in person, wrote one father about the short teaching periods offered. When it was Zoom it was 2 hours 4 days a week. They must be so exhausted. I hope the teachers are ok, he snarked.

Another tweet: Medical workers and grocery store workers need to be nourished and repaired too. You. Aren t. Special.

via nypost.com