Love to see the head of a major teacher's union coming out in favor of the most anti-labor, anti-educational technology to appear this century

April 07, 2026 - 11:47 UTC

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They are getting paid bsky.app/profile/thegoonvo.bsky.social/post/3mivpuhqs5c2o
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AFT has 1.7 million members.

Now I have no clue about union dues, but I suspect that they get more than that from membership given those numbers.
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Randi Retire Now
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As usual, it’s corruption.

Wish our union had mob connections instead. That would be more respectable.

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"Even if you hate AI, everyone is using it" is the most cowardly, morally vacant, fascist-appeasing argument you could make. Imagine saying "No matter how you feel about slavery, its use is growing, and it's important that educators understand how to integrate it as a tool in their classrooms"
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You're the head of a TEACHER'S UNION! This shit is meant to destroy both teachers and unions! Taking a payoff to embrace it without even a perfunctory show of resistance isn't just worthy of your resignation, it ought to lead to your imprisonment. Just complete collaborationist bullshit, disgraceful
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That’s a poor analogy. Slavery is about owning and mistreating people. Wildly different than using a trendy collection of algorithms. This is more “students should learn PowerPoint because everyone uses PowerPoint.” Except worse because AI will make students turn off their brain.
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It's like evangelizing you want to be fired and replaced by an automated system. Reagan coded neo-libs literally cumming to this on two levels: firing more public sector students and putting more control of education into the private sector. Holy shit more dystopian every day.
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Everybody is smoking cigarettes and our educators need to learn how integrate smoking in their classrooms.
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this would be like them announcing in 1983 that student learn best when they order term papers from the back of Rolling Stone magazine.
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