• 8bitguy@kbin.social
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    “They don’t want to engage in this banning of books or censoring of honest history or undermining who kids are,” Randi Weingarten, the teachers union president told The Associated Press on Wednesday, characterizing the candidates who won as “pro-public school.”

    It’s sad that we’ve gotten to a point where this has to be a fight.

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      Is there any reasonable stance a person could hold, where teachers unions would be a “frequent foe”?

      Imagine always knowing better than teachers, doctors, historians, fact checkers, other parents, and virtually any expert or intellectual. I can’t even wrap my head around that level of ego. The mind boggles.

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        Easy explanation! They aren’t comparing brain pans with those people, they’re saying those ‘experts’ have an agenda and they’re smart enough to see through it.

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      I suspect future historians (if we survive as a species) will think of this time as another Dark Ages.