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Smarmie Doofus

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Sun Aug 10, 2014, 06:58 PM Aug 2014

UFT's Mulgrew Ridicules Common Core Critics; Threatens to "Punch You in the Face..." [View all]

All at the AFT Convention in LA last month. Video at ednotesonline: http://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2014/08/aft14-convention-video-common-core.html#comment-form



Very strange indeed. What's going on here? More than meet the eye, I suspect. Very curious.



>>>Teachers union honcho Michael Mulgrew unleashed a venomous screed directed at anyone who would dare threaten his beloved Common Core agenda.


“If someone takes something from me, I’m going to grab it right back out of their cold, twisted, sick hands and say it is mine! You do not take what is mine!” the head of the United Federation of Teachers shouted in a speech at a convention last month in Los Angeles.

The rant was posted Thursday to the Ed Notes Online blog.

“And I’m going to punch you in the face and push you in the dirt because this is the teachers’!” added Mulgrew.

“These are our tools and you sick people need to deal with us and the children that we teach. Thank you very much!”
The remarks came during a heated debate on a resolution regarding the American Federation of Teachers’ continued support of Common Core despite the union’s disappointment in how it was rolled out nationwide.

“I’ve heard the stories about how Eli Broad, Bill Gates, Joel Klein and a flying saucer full of Martians designed these things to brainwash us all,” said Mulgrew, mocking critics who deride Common Core as being imposed by billionaires and corporate bigwigs.


Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/education/michael-mulgrew-defends-common-core-punch-face-tools-article-1.1895301#ixzz3A24VP1x1

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