From The Idiot Factor;
KAKE TV and other news organizations have covered a story by an
anti-teacher's union right-wing smear group that has focused their attention on
the leader of a teacher's union.
Steve Wentz, president
of the United Teachers of Wichita and former teacher at Southeast, was filmed
by so called journalists of the smear group Project Veritas, making damaging
remarks about threatening a student with physical violence.
This looks bad, but
union officials have said the film has been heavily edited and Project Veritas
is running smear campaign. Still KAKE has followed through on the film
asking teachers in the district what they think of this.
I went to the
right-wing website of Breitbart.com, which is supporting Project
Veritas and found it very disturbing:
"A Project Veritas
undercover investigative series revealing the corruption within teachers unions in the New
York City area
now turns to expose a local teachers union president in Wichita , Kansas ."
Breitbart.com gave us
more details on the type of harassment this groups inflicts on teachers. Here
is what Breitbart.com said of Project Veritas:
"In the other videos in the Project Veritas series on teachers unions, the journalists uncover union officials who advise them on how to hide child abuse and excessive absenteeism, and admit to refusing to report teachers who abuse drugs."
This is the kind of
harassment we saw from the anti-abortion groups, such as Operation
Rescue,where they stalks and harasses doctors and employees of
abortion clinics. But Operation Rescue believes it is saving unborn babies.
What is the motivation for harassment of teachers and their union members? What
horrible wrong have teachers possibly done to deserve this kind of a hate
filled smear campaign? They seem to brag about wanting to get rid of teachers
for using drugs, drinking and possibly other adult activities that are
perfectly legal or acceptable if a teacher is not on the job, even if these
things are done off the job. They have a page they call "Teacher's Union Gone Wild."They
don't respect the teacher's private lives at all.
Teachers have been
under attack in Kansas from their governor, Sam Brownback. He has already tried to strip the
teacher's unions of any real power. He has attacked the schools as well. Some
teachers already feel heat from unsatisfied student's parents on top of
legislators who seem to attack their lively hood and they often complain of
feeling disrespected by both. Now they have a whole new group, from New
York , who seem to hate the idea the most
teachers in the country have a union to defend and protect them. Such
people seem determined that no one in America will have job
security or respect for their profession.
To treat teachers this
way is repugnant. We need to oppose these hate mongers at every opportunity.
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