Teachers union boss takes down X post after grammatical error, new one reads '4rth of July'

The original post spelled peaking as "peeking." It was corrected in the new post but many users criticized Weingarten for the way she spelled July fourth or July 4th.

By Nicholas Ballasy

Published: July 5, 2025 4:40pm

Updated: July 5, 2025 4:41pm

Teachers union boss Randi Weingarten took down an X post on Independence Day after a grammatical error and the new one still reads "4rth of July."

She had spelled peeking as "peaking" in the original post.

The error was corrected in the new post but many users commented and criticized Weingarten for the way she spelled July fourth or July 4th in both the first and second posts.

"And this is one of my favorite pictures of the flag-America with the sun peeking out. A beacon of light. This 4rth of July that’s what I am fighting for," Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) since 2008, wrote in the second most recent post.