EXCLUSIVE: Parental Rights Groups Rip Teachers Union Bosses Boycotting Target Instead Of Helping Kids
Parental rights advocates and conservative groups are outraged that one of the nation’s largest teachers’ unions is rallying against retail giant Target for scaling back its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs instead of focusing on educating children.
American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten and Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) President Stacy Davis Gates, are publicly rallying against Target for retreating from its divisive DEI goals amid declining sales. The unions are calling on the retailer to recommit to its DEI principles, make “a multimillion-dollar investment into 23 Black-owned banks,” fulfill “its $2 billion pledge to the Black business community” and establish “10 retail training centers at historically Black colleges and universities.”
“To the detriment of American kids, Randi Weingarten has spent years pushing activist curricula and radical ideology into classrooms under the guise of ‘education,’” Alleigh Marré, executive director of American Parents Coalition (APC), said in a statement to the Daily Caller News Foundation. “As the devastating learning loss suffered during the pandemic continues to plague students, Weingarten is more concerned with the hiring practices of retail stores and spends her time calling for boycotts against those that scale back DEI schemes. Her priorities couldn’t be more misplaced.”
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