Is school choice the death of AFT?

Just after the COVID pandemic started, students got their own union nationwide. Corey DeAngelis says that they're called parents. If I had to give this movement a nickname, I'd call it the Parents-Students Liberation Movement. I'd call it that because that's what it's doing.

According to Mr. DeAngelis, "Finally, we are freeing families from the clutches of the teachers' unions once and for all, and there's not a dang thing they can do about it." Mr. DeAngelis is a senior fellow at the American Federation for Children. That's a clever modification of Randi Weingarten's American Federation of Teachers. That's got to be terribly disturbing to Weingarten/AFT. Apparently, Weingarten's and AFT's monopoly is getting shattered.

When the economy was shut down due to COVID, parents got the opportunity to watch the things that students were getting taught. It didn't take long for parents to put the proverbial foot down. The uprising started in Loudoun County, Virginia. Next, it spread to Fairfax County, Virginia. After that, it spread to Dallas, TX, where conservatives recruited a slate of candidates, raised money for their slate's campaigns, then volunteered for their slate's campaigns.

The school choice debate has taken a front seat as parents push back against curriculum decisions and as more states pass legislation offering more educational options for students. School choice, which allows tax dollars to follow a student rather than a specific school, would free families from the teachers unions' control and allow them to pick an education system that aligns with their values, DeAngelis said.

While the movement got started because of school closures, the movement picked up steam when Scott Smith's daughter was assaulted by a boy in a girl's bathroom in Stonebridge HS. As a result of the cover-up, LCPS Superintendent Scott Ziegler was fired:

Truer words were never spoken:

"The teachers union monopoly wants to force kids to attend their residentially assigned, government-run institutions that they staff," DeAngelis told Fox News. "It's about maintaining power. It's about maintaining a monopoly on the minds of other people's kids."

"For far too long in K-12 education, the only special interests who had any influence were the ones who represented the employees in the system," he continued. "But now the kids have a union of their own, and they're called parents."

That grip is getting broken bit-by-bit. Thank motivated parents and arrogant teachers' unions for that.