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My home local, new york city, today is the first day of school for those kids, so i am wishing them the best year, even though its 95 degrees heat, which is always a problem everywhere when you dont have air conditioning, but i think whats happened is the same problems that afflict the nation afflict schools because schools are a melting pot of everything going on in the nation, the salad bowl, whatever you want to say. We deal with everything thats going on. So the division, the hate, the disinformation, is all really hard to overcome when what we should be doing in schools is having a welcome environment and ensuring every school, every public school, is a place parents want to send their kids, Educators Want to work and kids thrive. Theres a lot of effects of covid as well as position and inequities and climate issues that we have to deal with. Loneliness, learning loss. The disconnection that kids still feel. And so it makes it much harder when teachers are underpaid and overworked
Host the start of a new school year, we welcome back Randi Weingarten, president of the 1. 7 million Member Federation of american teachers. What do you see as the Biggest Challenges facing teachers this school year . Guest the Biggest Challenges first off, its great to have backtoschool. My home local, new york city, today is the first day of school for those kids, so i am wishing them the best year, even though its 95 degrees heat, which is always a problem everywhere when you dont have air conditioning, but i think whats happened is the same problems that afflict the nation afflict schools because schools are a melting pot of everything going on in the nation, the salad bowl, whatever you want to say. We deal with everything thats going on. So the division, the hate, the disinformation, is all really hard to overcome when what we should be doing in schools is having a welcome environment and ensuring every school, every public school, is a place parents want to send their kids, Educ
Host the start of a new school year, we welcome back Randi Weingarten, president of the 1. 7 million Member Federation of american teachers. What do you see as the Biggest Challenges facing teachers this school year . Guest the Biggest Challenges first off, its great to have backtoschool. My home local, new york city, today is the first day of school for those kids, so i am wishing them the best year, even though its 95 degrees heat, which is always a problem everywhere when you dont have air conditioning, but i think whats happened is the same problems that afflict the nation afflict schools because schools are a melting pot of everything going on in the nation, the salad bowl, whatever you want to say. We deal with everything thats going on. So the division, the hate, the disinformation, is all really hard to overcome when what we should be doing in schools is having a welcome environment and ensuring every school, every public school, is a place parents want to send their kids, Educ
Throughout the day, weekends at 5 00 and 9 00 pm eastern, catch washington today, listen to c span anytime, just tell your smart speaker, play cspan radio, powered by cable. At the start of a new school year, we are welcoming back the president of the 1. 7 million member American Federation of teachers, as you look at the year ahead, what do you see as the Biggest Challenges facing teachers this school year . I think the biggest challenge is first off, it is great to have backtoschool, my home local, new york city, today is the first day of school for all of those kids so im wishing all of them the best year, even though it is 95 degrees heat which is always a problem everywhere, when you dont have air conditioning. But, i think what has happened, the same problems that afflict the nation afflict the schools. Because School Schools are really a melting pot of e, everything going on in the nf nation, whatever you want to say, it is basically, we are dealing with everything going on. So,