Conservative Christians helping defeat Randi Weingarten, AFT

Apparently, Randi Weingarten and the American Federation of Teachers have met their match. Struggling mightily to maintain their stranglehold on their monopoly on parents and the educational product, AFT and other teacher unions are fighting a losing fight against parents and organizations like American Federation for Children. According to this article, one of the groups of parents that are helping win the fight are conservative Christians.

According to the article, "eight states – including Arizona, Florida, Indiana, and West Virginia – have approved 'universal' or near-universal school choice laws since 2021. They open the door completely to school choice by making all students, including those already in private schools and from wealthy families, eligible for about $7,000 to $10,000 in state funding each year for their education."

When Randi Weingarten pushed the Biden administration into keeping schools closed by working in conjunction with the CDC, she pi$$ed off tons of parents. That's just the start of AFTs difficulties, though. With the schools closed in lots of states, parents did what they've done throughout U.S. history. They figured out a workaround to solve their problems. Some families put together pod schools. Others started homeschooling. Still others pushed for more extensive school choice options.

We still haven't reached the end product in terms of giving parents better options but we're seeing positive options develop already. For instance, there's this:

most of these states have also enacted education savings accounts, or ESAs. They give families much more freedom than traditional tuition vouchers, depositing state funds into private accounts to spend on virtually anything related to learning, from homeschooling and online classes to therapy and supplies.

The fire is lit. The question is whether there are enough people to keep the fire lit or whether the people will let that fire die. It's up to us to keep the fire going. If you aren't motivated to keep the school choice fire lit, perhaps this will help increase that motivation:

Check this out, too:

School choice advocates, led by grassroots conservative Christian groups, big money political lobbies like American Federation for Children, and education nonprofits like EdChoice, call the universal programs a major milestone in their long and contentious battle for parental rights. They argue that parents, not the government, are best suited to direct the education of their children and should receive taxpayer support to do so as a competitive check on public schools they also pay for but consider failing or inadequate.

Unions like the NEA and AFT know that this is an existential threat. They aren't going to stop fighting. If we don't keep fighting this fight, AFT and NEA win. That means they'll return to the failed status quo and the students lose.