The New York Times needed three tries for a headline on a widely panned column celebrating teachers union chief Randi Weingarten.
Michelle Goldberg's piece was initially headlined"Can This Woman Save American Public Education?" It was changed to"What Will It Take to Get Schools Back to Normal?" before The Times finally settled on"We Desperately Need Schools to Get Back to Normal."
It wasn't changed in time for the front page of the Sunday Review of the Times, which kept the heroic framework and included the subhead,"The pandemic has left teachers, parents, and students in a crisis. Randi Weingarten may have a way out."Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, speaks alongside Michael Mulgrew, president of the United Federation of Teachers, during a news conference on Oct. 4, 2021, in Manhattan.
"But those who fault Weingarten for closed schools misunderstand the role she’s played over the last 20 months. Rather than championing shutdowns, she’s spent much of her energy, both in public and behind the scenes, trying to get schools open," Goldberg wrote.
Goldberg's framing came in for a thrashing on social media, as Weingarten and teachers unions threatened strikes last year over reopening measures, were noncommittal on five-day-a-week, in-person schooling as recently as this summer, and pressured the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to make school reopening guidelines stricter.
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