It’s time to apologize. That was the message sent by UFT President Michael Mulgrew and American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten on Oct. 30 as they delivered petitions with more than 100,000 signatures calling on the editors of Time magazine to apologize for a recent cover. The offending cover had a headline that began, “Rotten apples: It’s nearly impossible to fire a bad teacher,” and a picture of an apple about to be crushed by a gavel. Time should be thanking teachers, not disparaging them, Mulgrew said at the protest outside the magazine’s midtown Manhattan headquarters. “I’m tired of people who think that because they have made a lot of money they know how our schools should be run,” he said. Weingarten pointed out that the Time cover stood out even in the current climate of teacher-bashing. “Enough is enough,” she said. We can debate policy, but “what shouldn’t be debatable is whether a cover that suggests teachers need to be smashed is appropriate.” Watch the AFT video.