Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, joins Andrea Mitchell to discuss the Trump administration's push to reopen schools in the fall while undercutting health guidelines on doing so. Weingarten says that this push is "jeopardizing the safety of kids and their teachers," and that community spread and safeguards need to be addressed before reopening schools "slowly and thoughtfully." Aired on 07/15/2020.
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AFT President On Reopening Schools: ‘You Need To Keep It Safe’ | Andrea Mitchell | MSNBC
Keeping it safe actually would be: keeping those schools closed!!!
@Kathy Weis 🤣🤣🤣😆🤣😅🤣😆😅🤣 that’s all you got sweet heart???
Remember when we caught CNN’s and NPR welfare radio’s “experts in Russian troll farms” posing as Russian trolls to meddle in the Alabama special election? That’s a fact!!! Mueller Time is coming for demorats.
Enjoy 4 more years.
Exactly, so I don’t think I should be paying for Teacher unions if you’re not working…
I’m sure the kids would be happy with that. But look the COVID-19 numbers are way over done and it’s less deadly then common colds and flus. Now don’t get me wrong there is a real virus that does hurt people but it’s usually treatable if doctors know what to give patients. There are proven drugs that help as well as Zink, vitamins, and things like that. When parents go back to work something needs to happen with children and day care won’t help and not every parent has someone available To watch their kids all year. Online learning does not work for every student or even school. It’s a absolutely a disaster for some schools and students.
@Josef, teachers would still be working. My children will be distance learning by their teachers.
@frictionRx9 while Republicans tear kids from parents. Your hypocrisy is showing Trumpanzee traitor
This administration is evil.
Mueller Time I didn’t vote for Hillary whiner. Again, I’m not red or blue. You forgot to cry about Obama traitor. The fake president is a moron. Wish you could see my finger trumpturd.
@V who did you vote for? Jill Stein? Lol
How?!
@V obama is dead. Everybody knows that, otherwise he would be on tv campaigning for Joe McFish fingers Biden.
You for Joe?
@V again, how is he a fake president? You just screaming at the sky bro?
Safety isn’t on the Whitehouse agenda. Pay Attention
@Dan yes, Democrats are sick. It’s not about safety, it’s about the election
Dan is a trump cultists troll, easy to spot. Just check out his content.
@Kathy Weis lol. I see you have wcco on your saved list. I live in Cambridge. Where you from? Little Mogadishu? The cedar Riverside community? Did it burn down? 😦
Kathy Weis I have and it does not seem that way. The Democrats seem more cult like.
Mueller Time Democrats don’t care about lives at all. The lock downs here will starve people in third wold counties. But they double speak and they go from we need to solve everyone’s problems and screw America to they don’t matter because we only care about America. Reality is they don’t care about anyone but themselves
I don’t know about you, but I’m getting pretty damned sick and tired of the Lie Administration. So how about WE say NO. Let’s have a day of protest. We don’t go to work, school, we don’t go shopping, we don’t spend one dime on anything non-essential. Maybe that will get their attention.
They only care about their stock markets, not our children.
@Amani Rinas “not our children” It’s not safe to send our children back to school
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJNWdLRGuwE
Trump is a pathetic Clown. More Americans die from Trump’s actions than from all the minorities combined..
America is possibly heading down Ukraine’s path in 2014. The Euromaidan protests, followed by their corrupt ex President Yanukovych (who was Putin’s stooge) later fleeing to Russia for exile. Wouldn’t be surprised if the Moronavirus in the WH does the same, taking his equally stupid spawn with him.
America is in utter shambles. In my red southern state my governor said schools must reopen and children must attend. Until the Covid numbers go down and everyone is wearing a mask and following CDC guidelines, my kids will do virtual. The Trump administration aren’t worried about children, bus drivers, teachers, housekeeping staff, school administrators, cafeteria workers. Trump has made this pandemic political and it shouldn’t be. Dump the republicans! Vote out Trump.
@frictionRx9 MSNBC intern!!! Too funny. I wouldn’t doubt it. Surprised she didn’t call me a “Assad toadie”
@Kathy Weis, thanks for the PSA!! I won’t respond to them anymore 😃
@Over It imperative to read/ listen to Malcom Nance. Stay strong, stay healthy, fight on.😎👍✊
Over It … stay safe, vote Lindsey Graham out!
Mueller Time are all Russian males internet betas that pretend like teen girls?
My friend wanted me to ask.
🤣🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Mike Pence allowed a pandemic to happen in Indiana when he was the Governor of Indiana
@Mueller Time sorry I’m a Russian troll & haven’t mastered the language yet
@Stephen Smith nicely done
@Mueller Time your welcome mi frend
Mueller Time shes better than you, Comrade…youre used to getting bested by women in all things though, huh Cozy Beta?
😉🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
@Eli Dicken comrade lol. How did Mueller Time go for ya? Was justice served ice cold??????
Free Roger Stone!!!!!! Oh wait. Already happened. Free Michael Flynn!!!!!! Right… Exculpatory evidence.
RIP DNC
you need to get the country under control first. you people shouldn’t even be wasting time talking about this. reopening was nothing but a complete failure.
So can someone explain how it make sense to release convicted felons from serving time because of the risk of Covid 19 yet it’s okay to send our children back to school because covid 19 is low risk?
It doesn’t make sense.Our lives are disposable in the eyes of tRump and his partners in crime.stay safe.✌
EXACTLY!!!!!!
3rd Grader: What happened to my teacher? School: She’s dead Johnny.
Another unionized liberal bites the dust.
You inbreeding cultists are drama queens
Muller time is a known troll,if you answer him at length he will get a bonus. Their posts and user name is designed to draw you in, don’t fall for it. See Malcom Nance.
@Mueller Time Look everybody, a trump cultist celebrating the white house for killing American teachers. Anyone actually surprised at this point?
@Kathy Weis Report him everyone!
@S Hogan I blocked and reported for child abuse since putting kids in harm’s way is acceptable to his ignorant comment.
Republicans want to sacrifice children for their personal gain. Shame on them
@God_Laughs _At_Atheists don’t be a hypocrite pretending to be a loving Christian if you don’t care for children
@El Ram
so in other words, when youre out of the belly youre on your own
@God_Laughs _At_Atheists ignorant POS Trump Cultist
Only those who have been drinking Clorox and Lie-sol would believe in Greedy One Percent
BS teachers are putting themselves first… children do not catch this disease. the normal flu kills more children…
Where do these So called Leaders come from…Pay attention AFT. , and CDC..
There is No Safe Way to open schools while the CoronaVirus is SURGING.
It would be deadly to the students, and the teachers, and all school personnell.
Have the Guts to Say That..
There’s a serious shortage of testing kits and teachers are not medical experts, there’s no way schools can keep children safe in the surging pandemic. It would be highly irresponsible and dangerous to reopen schools at this point 🧐🤔
I completely agree.
Pence is an embarrassment to all or most Americans, along with the rest of his rabble ?
Pence is also a wuss. Trump says jump if you want to still be my VP, and Pence says how high?
Mike Pence is a great VP, a humble person, and a better man than Biden will ever be.
@God_Laughs _At_Atheists get out of this channel you ignorant is not your place😷 Biden 2020🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Precisely !
Students are not going back until the infection rate is down. period.
I’m worried about how cavalier the Administration is being about something so serious. If Trump did what he was supposed to do from the beginning, we would be ready now.
Republicans should lead this charge and show everyone how its done. Start in Florida if you want to impress everyone.
When asked what the plan was for schools to be able to re-open safely, both Devos and t’rump said, “They just need to re-open.”
They literally have NO PLAN for how to keep our kids, teachers, staff and families safe.
It’s almost as if they don’t actually care. 🤔😆😅😂
Oh, well they do have a plan – out of Putin’s playbook. To destroy America from within. All signs point to that.
Make America great again without Trump!
They’re risking the lives of other people’s children not their own: just as they asked old people to risk their lives and didn’t dream of risking their own! Do as I say not what I do!
They are evils
The stupid cult will put their children In Harm’s Way for Donald Trump their leader