Minneapolis Teachers’ Union Officials ‘Extremely Proud’ Of Deal To Lay Off White Teachers First

On August 16, the Geller Report reported that Minnesota Public Schools had changed their rules to lay off white teachers first. Now, after a backlash against their obvious racism, the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers has doubled down, and even said that their discriminatory measure “doesn’t go far enough.” What do they want to do? Force all white people into unemployment and penury? What’s the next step after that? The firing squad? Yes, this is a reductio ad absurdum, but these days you never know: that might be exactly what the increasingly authoritarian Left has in mind.

“‘MAGA Media Picked It Up’: Teachers’ Union Officials ‘Extremely Proud’ Of Deal To Lay Off White Teachers First,” by Harold Hutchison, Daily Caller, August 19, 2022:

The president and vice president of the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers defended a contract provision that states white teachers would be laid off first in a Friday appearance on ABC.

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“This contract language was something that we are, first of all, extremely proud of for achieving but it also doesn’t go far enough,” Greta Callahan, president of the teachers’ union, told “GMA3” host Amy Robach. “We need to support and retain our educators, especially those who are underrepresented, and this language does one tiny, minuscule step towards that but doesn’t solve the real crisis we’re in right now.” 

The contract language was agreed to after a three-week strike in March, according to CNN. Provisions in the contract require Minneapolis Public Schools to disregard seniority when prioritizing layoffs and instead lay off white teachers first.

“This is the language that we put in and that we went out and marched for,” Marcia Howard, the teachers’ union vice president, said. “We voted on this, the district and the union agreed upon this and now it’s coming out because some Minnesotan website decided to put it out there and the MAGA media picked it up and they were waiting for mainstream media to run with this story. It’s a non-story. It was language about the event of a layoff and we are nowhere near having layoffs this year. We’re down like 250 teachers. We’re down. There are no layoffs. So I ask y’all why? Why is this a story?”…

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