"Teachers’ Unions Plan to Become ‘More Political, Not Less Political’
The recent Supreme Court decision has not led to moderation.
...For unions, the stakes could hardly be higher. Kate Walsh, president of the National Council on Teacher Quality, warns that surveys show “many [teachers] see dues as too high” and “political activity as too leftist”; she also notes that “only half of all teachers voted for Hillary Clinton.” Internal documents from the National Education Association (NEA), the nation’s largest teachers’ union, anticipate that the union will lose a whopping 300,000 members. ...woke gun-control activist David Hogg joining NEA president Lily Eskelsen García on stage to exhort the cheering throng, “There’s nothing more powerful in America than a pissed-off teacher.”
The NEA also made time to award its Human and Civil Rights Award — given to those who have “demonstrated remarkable courage and conviction to stand up for racial and social justice” — to recipients including First Lady Michelle Obama and former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick.
The NEA adopted 122 total New Business Items, including
- commitments to promote the Black Lives Matter Week of Action
- (including supporting BLM’s demand that “ethnic studies be taught in pre-K-12 schools”),
- to support “a strategy postponing confirmation of a Supreme Court justice until after the mid-term election,” and
- to encourage teachers to assign readings that “describe and deconstruct the systemic proliferation of a White supremacy culture and its constituent elements of White privilege and institutional racism.”
- The NEA also promised to respond “in support of and in solidarity with immigrant families who are separated, incarcerated, or refused their legal right to request asylum due to the heartless, racist, and discriminatory zero-tolerance policies of the Trump administration.”
- NEA further pledged to post a list of known individuals with businesses who are committed to refusing services to same-sex couples and/or LGBTQ individuals..."
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