This is the system that the left is desperately fighting for by waging war on charter schools and being willing to die to stop voucher programs. All to subsidize a corrupt union system that bleeds taxpayer money. And it is at its worst in California. Project Veritas has been taking a look at teacher's union officials in California. And here's what James O'Keefe has come up with.
Antonio Mankini, the Staff Organizer and Treasurer of the United Educators of San Fransisco, was caught in an undercover video:
“I can see grabbing a kid, I can see throwing a kid up against a locker. Not that I’ve ever done that, okay once, maybe twice.”
“Were there any witnesses? Just keep it that way. Seriously. If there weren’t any witnesses, it’s your word against the kid’s. Kids f*cking lie. Seriously.
“But if there were no witnesses, then you have that deniability and that’s something that could be used. No I didn’t do it. There’s no scars, marks, tattoos or bruises or anything. There’s no evidence.”
“I spent 17 years working with law enforcement so I know ways to…It’s like I told them, I could hurt you and never leave a mark"
“Elbows are awesome weapons too. They are harder than a fist and yeah it’s intense stuff so…”
“I clotheslined a kid in a class one time, you know and of course I was pretending, I was pointing at the kids and the kids saw the kid went down."
“I mean, he ran into my arm. He wasn’t supposed to be in my class and of course I caught him here and he went down backwards."
“And that one still bothered me. That one, yeah, because I crossed the line. I know, I mean, I made it look like an accident and all the witnesses would have said no he ran into my arm because he ran into me. I didn’t reach over to knock him down you know. He ran into me.”
Mankini has now been placed on administrative leave.
When asked how a man with leanings like this make it into the upper ranks of a union that represents teachers, Matthew Hardy, a member of the teachers’ union said, “I can only speak to the comments on the video. When we do our investigation, if we determine it’s accurate we will take action as necessary.”
Uh-huh.
Now I will say that teachers working in cities often operate in genuinely horrifying environments. The Rockville Rape shows what students have to deal with in some schools. But teachers are often on the front lines of this kind of culture. And those who don't burn out and can keep going in genuinely bad schools are often on the tougher side. There's a big difference between a teacher acting like this in some crime-free suburban school and a gang ridden hellhole where teachers are often assaulted. Mankini doesn't mention acting like this in self-defense. And he's boasting about it. Which is just damning.