The head of the Woke teachers union, Randi Weingarten, attempted to criticize Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in a misspelled tweet over the weekend.
Just days after she had a full-blown meltdown on the student loan crisis in front of the Supreme Court, Weingarten, the head of the American Federation of Teachers, took to Twitter Sunday to disparage the Florida governor.
‘DeSantis should be obsessed with Florida’s cost-of-living problems: housing is unaffordable, home insurance is even worse, but instead he’s expanding [sic] access to weapons, defunding, [sic] public schools and ban everything he doesn’t like: teachers, journalists and vulnerable people,’ Weingarten tweeted.
It came as the Florida legislature, which has a Republican majority, returns to session for two months. During that time, Republican lawmakers plan to pass a multitude of education-focused bills that, among other things, would ban preferred pronouns in schools and eliminate gender studies in universities.
But critics said the 65-year-old Weingarten shouldn’t “comment on everything,” with former Superman actor Dean Cain comparing her to a mob boss while others ridiculed her misspellings and grammar.
Randi Weingarten, 65, attempted to attack Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in a tweet over the weekend. The head of the American Federation of Teachers, the second largest teachers’ union in the country, is pictured here in 2017.
In his tweet on Sunday, he misspelled the word ‘expansion’ and used wandering commas.
In his tweet, Cain asked why Weingarten “always comments on everything.”
“I thought she was the head of the mob, I mean the teachers union,” he joked.
Alexander Diaz, a student at the Catholic University of America, also noted that the only reason the cost of living is rising in Florida is due to the influx of people moving from other states, and DeSantis’ deputy press secretary, Jeremy Redfern suggested that Weingarten should be ‘obsessed’ with why so many parents left New York for Florida.
“Maybe it’s because they wanted to be as far away from schools as possible where Randi has influence.”
Meanwhile, Carlos López-Cantera, Florida’s first Hispanic lieutenant governor, ridiculed Weingarten, who heads the second-largest teachers’ union in the country, for his spelling and grammar mistakes.
“My teachers always criticized me for not checking my spelling and grammar, and they were right to do so,” he tweeted. ‘Below is the president of the national teachers’ union.’
And Dr. Mark Young, an author and podcaster, pointed out that Weingarten doesn’t allow people to reply to his tweets.
‘Watch as this brave public servant disables the ability to play [sic] to your tweets?’ she asked, rhetorically. She knows it’s all lies and she doesn’t want to be challenged.
Still, Weingarten doubled down on his criticism of the Florida governor on Monday, tweeting: “Instead of focusing on policies that could help families and communities thrive, DeSantis is using culture wars to target the dislikes and divide us.” even more”.
“This is shameful and does nothing to improve the lives of Floridians.”
DeSantis, pictured in November, is expected to sign a series of new education bills into law in the coming months.
Many online attacked Weingarten for her tweet, ridiculed her for spelling and grammatical errors and compared her to a mob boss.
In the coming months, DeSantis is expected to enact half a dozen new education laws.
Among those bills is one that states that ‘It shall be the policy of every K-12 educational institution that a person’s sex is an immutable biological trait and that it is false to attribute a pronoun to a person that does not correspond to that person’s sex. .’
Similarly. another proposed law would require students in grades six through twelve be taught that ‘sex is determined by biology and reproductive function at birth.’ It also gives parents greater power to read and object to public school instructional materials.
It is now being dubbed the ‘Don’t Say They’ bill by opponents.
Others would ban spending on diversity, equity, and inclusion programs at public universities and eliminate undergraduate and high school majors in ‘Critical Race Theory, Gender Studies, or Intersectionality.’
That bill says universities must only offer general education courses that “promote the philosophical foundations of Western civilization and include studies of this nation’s historical documents” such as the Constitution and the Federalist Papers.
And another proposal would expand the ban on teaching about sexual orientation and gender identity to 7th and 8th graders when a previous version of the law went beyond 6th grade. Critics call the ‘Parental Rights in Education’ bill the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill.
DeSantis is also expected to sign bills during this two-month legislative session that include: ending requirements for a permit to carry a firearm, making it easier to impose the death penalty on felons, and forcing businesses to use E-Verify, a website. based on the system administered by the Department of Homeland Security, to confirm that a worker has legal status in the US before being hired.
Famously, the session could also see increased spending for a program that transports illegal immigrants out of Florida to Democratic enclave states and sanctuary cities.
The Governor is also expected to cut taxes by $2 billion in the state.
All of these bills are expected to pass as the Florida state legislature is controlled by a Republican majority in both the House and Senate.
In the House of Representatives there are 84 Republicans and 35 Democrats; in the Senate there are 28 Republicans and 12 Democrats.
Weingarten doubled down on Monday saying that “DeSantis is using culture wars to target what he doesn’t like and further divide us.”
Weingarten has criticized DeSantis in the past, sharing a video last week of DeSantis’s speech defending the Florida Department of Education’s decision to remove explicit LGBTQ material from school libraries.
In that speech, DeSantis cited Florida’s “standards” that give the Department of Education the authority to take down books and suggested that “99 percent of parents” would agree to take down books if they weren’t being misled by the media.
He noted that many in the mainstream media characterized the removal of these books as a ‘book ban’, which he said was a ‘book ban hoax’.
DeSantis also mentioned how MSNBC claimed that the Florida Department of Education forcing a public school to drop aspects of its African studies class was tantamount to his administration banning the study of slavery.
Weingarten commented on that video stating that DeSantis is lying.
‘[Question]: Did Fla teachers complain about the book ban before DeSantis started his “anti-wake” crusade? Did we see photos of tarps on the classroom libraries? Were teachers threatened with felonies if they used the “wrong” book?
‘[Answer}: No. Now that has been exposed. Now it’s a hoax.’
And in early February, Weingarten accused DeSantis of ‘race-baiting’ over his decision to ban College Board’s proposed AP African American Studies course from schools in the state.
‘As an educator who taught AP, I’m disappointed with the omissions and changes to the AP African American Studies course,’ she tweeted at the time.
‘This is a college-level elective course 4 high school students, and people like #APhilipRandolph and #bellhooks should not be given shrift,’ she said, referring to a labor unionist and a feminist author.