On Thursday’s version of CNN Tonight, GOP strategist and CNN senior political commentator Scott Jennings spoke for thousands and thousands of pissed off mother and father when he tore into the corrupt American Federation of Lecturers union president Randi Weingarten for her lack of regret concerning the irreversible harm college closures did to high school kids throughout America through the COVID-19 pandemic. Weingarten clearly solely cared concerning the wellbeing of her union, not kids since even whereas Jennings laid into her on nationwide tv, she sat there stonefaced.
Jennings was however one of many assembled panelists who every had a flip to query Weingarten. When it was Jennings’ flip, it was sport on. “Talking on behalf of thousands and thousands of American mother and father, I’ve 4 at residence. I needed to train them at residence. My spouse needed to train them at residence. I’m surprised at what you may have mentioned this week about your claiming to have needed to reopen faculties,” Jennings mentioned with indignation.
Tearing into the soulless union boss, Jennings despatched her a message on behalf of all of the mother and father with school-age kids who had suffered due to her: “I feel you will discover that the majority mother and father consider you’re the tip of the spear of faculty closures. There are quite a few statements you remodeled the summer season of ’20 scaring individuals to loss of life about the potential of opening faculties. And I hear no regret in any way concerning the generational harm that is been carried out to those youngsters.”
With emotion in his voice, Jennings defined to her how her college closures have personally affected him and his personal kids:
I’ve two youngsters with studying variations. Are you aware how arduous it’s for them to be taught at residence and never in a classroom that was designed for them? And so that you can sit in entrance of Congress and the American individuals and say, oh, I needed to open up them the entire time, I—I’m shocked. I am surprised. I am surprised. And there are thousands and thousands of oldsters who really feel the very same manner.
When Jennings was carried out, Weingarten lied by way of her tooth about eager to reopen faculties. “I knew and understood the significance of reopening faculties and the significance of constructing certain that individuals had been secure. And ballot after ballot that we did of oldsters—and I spent loads of time with mother and father—mentioned that they mainly understood and supported that we wanted to do each,” she asserted,
Anybody who was sentient through the 2020 pandemic, is aware of what she mentioned is clearly false. This is one instance of Weingarten cheering a court docket blocking Florida from reopening their faculties:
Large!! Decide strikes down Florida’s college reopening order, says unconstitutional to require ‘brick and mortar’ courses this month Decide requires #safeschoolsreopening Thanks @FloridaEA https://t.co/1BWb9xnQ16
— Randi Weingarten ???????????????????????????????? (@rweingarten) August 24, 2020
Jennings is a great man and wasn’t born yesterday. So naturally, he jumped in after she doubled down and mentioned “no one needed to maintain the youngsters at residence.”
He then ended by asking her: “Why did we fail? How did Europe and the remainder of the civilized world get this proper and we failed?”
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CNN Tonight4/27/202310:26:23 p.m. Jap
SCOTT JENNINGS: Yeah. We do not know one another. However talking on behalf of thousands and thousands of American mother and father, I’ve 4 at residence. I needed to train them at residence. My spouse needed to train them at residence. I’m surprised at what you may have mentioned this week about your claiming to have needed to reopen faculties. I feel you will discover that the majority mother and father consider you’re the tip of the spear of faculty closures. There are quite a few statements you remodeled the summer season of ’20 scaring individuals to loss of life about the potential of opening faculties. And I hear no regret in any way concerning the generational harm that is been carried out to those youngsters. I’ve two youngsters with studying variations. Are you aware how arduous it’s for them to be taught at residence and never in a classroom that was designed for them? And so that you can sit in entrance of Congress and the American individuals and say, oh, I needed to open up them the entire time, I—I’m shocked. I am surprised. I am surprised. And there are thousands and thousands of oldsters who really feel the very same manner.
ALISYN CAMEROTA: Go forward, Randi.
RANDI WEINGARTEN: So, I do not know you, sir, and you do not know me. However I’ve labored for the final 20 or 30 years serving to youngsters each single day. I’ve been a schoolteacher. I have been a union chief. I knew and understood the significance of reopening faculties and the significance of constructing certain that individuals had been secure. And ballot after ballot that we did of oldsters—and I spent loads of time with mother and father—mentioned that they mainly understood and supported that we wanted to do each. I am actually sorry about this—
JENNINGS: You assume mother and father needed to maintain the youngsters—
WEINGARTEN: No person needed to maintain the youngsters at residence.
[crosstalk]
JENNINGS: Why did we fail? How did Europe and the remainder of the civilized world get this proper and we failed?
