Usually, teachers are the ones telling the rowdy kids to settle down and be quiet so the lesson can begin.
But the American Federation of Teachers who had gathered in Houston on Thursday to hear Vice President Kamala Harris deliver the keynote at their conference just wouldn't stop applauding and cheering so she could get started.
After all, the AFT was the first of many labor unions to formally endorse VP Harris, and according to its president, Randi Weingarten, the Vice President “has electrified this race.”
"This is the most pro-labor, pro-worker, pro-family, pro-public education administration in our history," Weingarten told the roaring crowd in her introduction. "Now we have the opportunity to make history again."
While Texas Republicans are wrongly portraying her as "Biden's Border Czar"--a title never bestowed upon her, as corrected by Axios--VP Harris went on the attack against them, challenging them to "bring it on" if they're going to play dirty.
VP Harris simply had to tell the teachers the truth about the Republicans, and the electrified crowd was with her all the way. She spoke about Republicans' attacks on public school education and their proposed book bans. She emphasized the dangers of Project 2025. And on the same day a Uvalde police officer pleaded Not Guilty for failing to protect schoolchildren from a mass shooting, the VP touched on the GOP's refusal to regulate assault weapons.
"We want to ban assault weapons and they want to ban books," Harris told the crowd of educators. "Can you imagine?"
The VP also uplifted her initiatives to expand access to childcare, fund public education, and forgive student loan debt.
Watch Kamala Harris' full speech, below.