Why Trump was the candidate for educational freedom

In July, just a few days after President Joe Biden ended his re-election bid, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten boasted that the union under her charge was the first to endorse Kamala Harris for president.Weingarten pledged: “The AFT has 1.8 million members—including 450,000 in battleground states.

Between now and Election Day, we’re going to give our all to make sure our voices are heard and our members are mobilized.Because when we fight, we win.”No question, Weingarten is a fighter.

She fought to keep schools closed, which spanned three school years in some states.However, election night was far from a win for Harris, losing in a landslide to former president Donald Trump, who will become the 47th president of the United States in January.For Harris, the current Vice President, having the endorsement of Weingarten and the members of the second-largest teachers union in the country did not prove advantageous at the ballot box.Dating back to the spring of 2020, when parents had a front-row seat in their child’s classrooms during the remote Zoom sessions, they saw first-hand, day after day, that public education wasn’t providing a high-quality education.

Instead, parents witnessed far-left political content taught as truth to their children at the expense of core academic learning.Parents were keenly aware that private schools safely reopened fully in the fall of 2020 for in-person learning, while public schools across the country remained closed while teachers unions used children as leverage to get irrelevant demands met.As one example, the teacher union of the Los Angeles Unified School District refused to reopen schools until their demands of defunding the police, Medicare-For-All, and a moratorium on charter schools were met.The extreme political agendas of the teachers unions outraged parents whose children were locked out of school.

This sparked the great parent awakening that became what Corey DeAngelis titl...