By “union-hostile,” I don’t mean the outright union-busting of, say, Starbucks or Amazon. I mean that she’s been dismissive of teachers, their concerns, their needs, their intelligence, their motivations, their union, and their understanding of their own problems.
Her stubborn unwillingness to •listen• to educators is not the primary cause of the district’s problems, but it has been a major exacerbating factor. She’s treated the union as her enemy in a zero-sum game. That’s disqualifying.
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