"School choice and charter schools are bad,

because they hurt public schools!  And guns are bad, too!"  Etc.

“There are some people who came to this totally because of legitimate frustration that said ‘we can’t shake the system up enough – we need to have alternatives to the system.’ And, frankly, some of those people were people like my predecessor, Al Shanker, who said ‘we hate bureaucracy – can’t we do things like charter schools or other kinds of alternatives where teachers and parents have a right to actually figure out what they want for schooling and make it an incubator,’ and so if something really works then you bring it to the main system,” she added.

Weingarten said advocating for new ideas in education has been “hijacked” as a way to convince states to move funds away from public schools and into other education programs.

Translation: "Just because your schools are doing a crappy job doesn't mean you should have alternatives!  Just give us more money!"

Weingarten suggested more “red flag” laws so that teachers and parents are able to report suspicious behavior of certain students, which could lead to “extraordinary orders of protection” being issued.

“There could be ways of trying to get these kinds of orders of protection that restrict for a temporary period of time people from having these [military-style weapons],” she said.

"Screw due process!"  And notice the obligatory 'military-style weapons' crap.

Weingarten also said that “every time you do more and more of the safety protocols” such as active-shooter drills, locks on doors and adding metal detectors, “you’re also moving schools away from being part of the community.”

"How dare you do things that might actually work!  That takes us away from the community!"

Kevin, fits right in.