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South Carolina GOP Sen. Tim Scott, a contender in the Republican race for the White House, took aim at American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten on Wednesday after she likened school choice and parental rights advocates to segregationists who opposed the integration of schools.
"There might not be anyone that's done more damage recently than Randi Weingarten to the kids living in distressed communities, especially like the ones where I grew up," Scott told Fox News Digital. "It's so frustrating to hear these liberal lies, hearkening back to a day that no longer exists."
The comments from Weingarten – who serves as president of the second-largest teachers union in the United States, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) – came during an interview released Tuesday that she took part in with the Burnes Center for Social Change.
During the interview, Weingarten likened school choice and parental rights advocates to segregationists in the 1950s who had taken issue with the Supreme Court's ruling on Brown v. Board of Education, which found it unconstitutional to separate children in public schools on the basis of race.
"There might not be anyone that's done more damage recently than Randi Weingarten to the kids living in distressed communities, especially like the ones where I grew up," South Carolina GOP Sen. Tim Scott told
"Those same words that you heard in terms of wanting segregation post-Brown v. Board of Education, those same words you hear today," Weingarten told Seth Harris, a Burnes Center senior fellow. "I was kind of gobsmacked when I was talking with [the] Southern Poverty Law Center, and they showed me the same words – choice, parental rights."
Words like those, according to Weingarten, are used as an "attempt to divide parents versus teachers."
Scott, who has represented South Carolina in the Senate since 2013, told Fox he took issue with that claim.
"I'm so sick and tired of liberals – too many of them happen to be White – crying racism every single time they're losing an argument," Scott said. "I can't think of anything more actually racist than trapping poor Black kids in the failing schools in these big blue cities dominated by a super-majority of radical progressives who are running the cities and destroying the schools."....
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ti...-for-comparing-parental-rights-to-segregation
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Which is more racist?
1. Wanting intercity kids to be trapped in failing intercity schools.
2. Wanting intercity kids to have a better educational opportunity by allowing the educational tax dollar to follow the kid and allowing it to be spent on the school of the parents choice.
I have always thought racism was about minority kids not having a choice to get a good education.
Do you believe in school choice and is it racist.
(OK Little Lizard is this a racist thread? )
"There might not be anyone that's done more damage recently than Randi Weingarten to the kids living in distressed communities, especially like the ones where I grew up," Scott told Fox News Digital. "It's so frustrating to hear these liberal lies, hearkening back to a day that no longer exists."
The comments from Weingarten – who serves as president of the second-largest teachers union in the United States, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) – came during an interview released Tuesday that she took part in with the Burnes Center for Social Change.
During the interview, Weingarten likened school choice and parental rights advocates to segregationists in the 1950s who had taken issue with the Supreme Court's ruling on Brown v. Board of Education, which found it unconstitutional to separate children in public schools on the basis of race.
"There might not be anyone that's done more damage recently than Randi Weingarten to the kids living in distressed communities, especially like the ones where I grew up," South Carolina GOP Sen. Tim Scott told
"Those same words that you heard in terms of wanting segregation post-Brown v. Board of Education, those same words you hear today," Weingarten told Seth Harris, a Burnes Center senior fellow. "I was kind of gobsmacked when I was talking with [the] Southern Poverty Law Center, and they showed me the same words – choice, parental rights."
Words like those, according to Weingarten, are used as an "attempt to divide parents versus teachers."
Scott, who has represented South Carolina in the Senate since 2013, told Fox he took issue with that claim.
"I'm so sick and tired of liberals – too many of them happen to be White – crying racism every single time they're losing an argument," Scott said. "I can't think of anything more actually racist than trapping poor Black kids in the failing schools in these big blue cities dominated by a super-majority of radical progressives who are running the cities and destroying the schools."....
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ti...-for-comparing-parental-rights-to-segregation
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Which is more racist?
1. Wanting intercity kids to be trapped in failing intercity schools.
2. Wanting intercity kids to have a better educational opportunity by allowing the educational tax dollar to follow the kid and allowing it to be spent on the school of the parents choice.
I have always thought racism was about minority kids not having a choice to get a good education.
Do you believe in school choice and is it racist.
(OK Little Lizard is this a racist thread? )