Michelle Goldberg responded to critics accusing her of stretching her neck for the American Federation of Teachers president.
about the backlash her December column initially titled"Can This Woman Save American Public Education?" and a tweet swiping the article for having"aged beautifully" amid the Chicago Teachers Union forcing schools in the Windy City to close for several days amid the Omicron wave.
Goldberg wrapped up the article writing,"This is the hardest situation that she’s ever faced as a union leader, Weingarten told me. Lots of teachers are frightened and exhausted. The story, for now, is that most of those who can are still showing up." "The C.D.C. has been clear that everyone can unmask outside unless they’re in close contact with each other," Weingarten told Goldberg at the time."And I believe that schools should be doing this for recess. And I believe we need to give parents and teachers a road map to what it takes to start undoing the mitigations. It was clear that vaccines for teachers helped us reopen schools. Maybe it’s vaccines for kids helping us get to unmasking of teachers and kids in schools.
"[T]hose who fault Weingarten for closed schools misunderstand the role she’s played over the past 20 months," Goldberg wrote."Rather than championing shutdowns, she’s spent much of her energy, both in public and behind the scenes, trying to get schools open.
The Times columnist insisted Weingaten began strategizing the reopening schools as early as spring 2020 and"has been frank about the ongoing social costs of some Covid restrictions." She also hightlighted a letter she sent to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona and CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky asking them"for an off-ramp from school masking."
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