After fighting to keep many American public schools closed for almost two years, the president of the nation’s second-largest teachers union has traveled to Ukraine to “assess” the poor remote learning conditions for children there.
Randi Weingarten, who leads the 1.7 million member-strong American Federation of Teachers (AFT), announced the trip on Monday in the wake of a new Russian missile blitz targeting major cities across Ukraine, including the capital, Kyiv. Russian President Vladimir Putin described the attack as a retaliation for the sabotage of the bridge connecting Russia to Russian-controlled Crimea.
“Woke up this am to reports of disgusting Russian missile strikes in Kyiv, Lviv & other cities. Heading to the border now to assess the situation,” Weingarten wrote on Twitter. “This Russian attempt to frighten civilians & the effect on children (who are learning online today) is why this [trip to Ukraine] is so important.”…