Teacher-union head slammed for comparing school-choice backers to segregationists

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Teachers’ union chief Randi Weingarten equated parents who seek alternatives to traditional public schools to segregationists, a comparison that didn’t sit well with conservatives, starting with Sen. Tim Scott.

The South Carolina Republican fired off an email declaring “I’m so sick and tired of liberals, too many of them happening to be white, crying racism every single time they’re losing an argument.”

Ms. Weingarten said in an interview that school-choice advocates like former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and the late Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman have used the “same words” as 1950s-era segregationists, namely “choice” and “parental rights.” Her comments came during a blogcast interview posted Tuesday with Seth D. Harris, senior fellow at the Burnes Center for Social Change at Northeastern University.“I was kind of gobsmacked when I was talking to Southern Poverty Law Center and they showed me the same words — choice, parental rights — and attempt to divide parents versus teachers,” she said. “At that point it was White parents versus other parents. But it’s the same kind of words.

 

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