And here's Larry Sand's take:

In an email to education writer Alexander Russo, AFT President Randi Weingarten wrote, "The power point didn't represent AFT or my views, nor does it represent the Conn Fed's views…." And the punch line, "We are proud of the work in Conn, but disagree with the wording and what the wording in the power point represented."

The wording? She disagreed with the wording??!! That's like pummeling someone, stealing their money and then apologizing because you dropped a couple of F bombs in the process.

While I am certainly not a fan of AFT's tactics, I am hardly shocked by them. They are a labor union. It is their job to do whatever they can do to protect the interests of its members.

In fact, if Randi Weingarten or National Education Association President Dennis Van Roekel were really honest, they'd lose all the phony caring about children rhetoric and say something like the following:

Truth is, Mr. and Mrs. America, we don't give a damn about you, your children or your wallet. We want to have as many teachers as we can on the job, including the rotten ones – they pay dues also – and make you pay them as much as possible so that we can collect carloads of cash, which allows us to be a political powerhouse and pursue our very progressive social, economic and political agenda.

If they were being really honest. But of course, tactically, that would not be in their best interest. As Joy Pullmann, managing editor of School Reform News at The Heartland Institute, put it, "…unions must pretend to care for ridding schools of bad teachers, squeezing the most out of taxpayer dollars, and other public concerns."

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