…”All your children are belong to us”…
I’m not 100% sure whether this is unbridled arrogance or just jaw-dropping tone-deafness, but this is absurd. These are toxic sociopaths operating on a level of totalitarian outlook that is alarming as heck.
The American Federation of Teachers (AFT), a national union led by hard-line leftist Randi Weingarten, has announced adding $2.5 million to a legal fund specifically intended to fight parents for control over education curriculum.
Apparently the AFT feels they should be permitted to determine the curriculum of what they teach. Parents do not get a say in what is taught to their children; this is a remarkable admission of indoctrination. The arrogance of this is really quite remarkable and highlights just how out-of-touch with teaching the education system has become.
WASHINGTON – […] “Mark my words: Our union will defend any member who gets in trouble for teaching honest history,” Weingarten said in remarks for a virtual address to union members. “Teaching the truth is not radical or wrong. Distorting history and threatening educators for teaching the truth is what is truly radical and wrong.”
In an interview, Weingarten said the union is adding $2.5 million to an existing legal defense fund in anticipation of local fights over the teaching of race. The funding will be used to defend teachers who are disciplined for teaching about slavery and racism, Weingarten said. The union is also considering filing lawsuits to get clarification about new state laws limiting how racism can be discussed in schools, she said.
“We’re looking at these laws to see if courts will give some clarification in advance,” Weingarten said. “It just looks like it’s an attempt to erase so much of the history of the United States.” (read more)
If you find yourself quite stunned by this open intent of the teachers union to fight parents, you might be well served to remember how open they have been about this objective for almost a decade. This video was from 2013:
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That is one ugly man
Zinn Project Urges Teachers to Defy Laws Banning Critical Race Theory
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/07/06/zinn-teachers-critical-race-theory/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
CRT based instruction in schools receiving federal funding was already a violation of federal law, before any new laws were/are enacted against it.
The Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination based on race or color, and CRT based instruction creates a hostile discriminatory environment by singling out some for criticism based solely on race or color.
A violation of The Civil Rights Act is a violation of federal law.
Time to stand up for our civil rights protected by federal law. Put CRT in the dustbin of history.
Are there any parent unions/national organizations?
Homeschooling is a good solution, but there are thing to consider.
Not everyone is in a position to homeschool.
Tomorrow homeschooling is outlawed, then what?
Critical Race Theory is an unconstitutional racist abomination. It needs to be fought very hard, else it will permeate every level of society.
It is also a vulnerable chink in their Marxist armor. Even with a compromised Judiciary, this is a provable violation of students civil rights.
When I was a kid, there was something called the PTA (Parent /Teachers Assoc?).
Not sure what they did, cuz I was…….a kid.
But I know that parents used to go the meetings all the time.
But that was in 60’s, before Public Ed. was Federalized.
Just looked, and the PTA still “exists” – in theory, anyway.
I’m sure it’s been taken over by Lefty interests in the past decades.
And the “Parent” part has weakened For. Sure. because parents had a LOT more involvement in their kids schools back in the 60’s than they have the past few decades. >>>> That’s why it’s so refreshing and uplifting to see them getting involved again.
It took a LOT to get Parents back, but they are coming back, and that’s what *matters*.
The PTA is a club of climber parents who suck up to teachers and principals in order to be sure THEIR kids “excel”, etc. They are disgusting.
Now the PTA is the TUCDCA (Teachers Union / Center for Disease Control Assoc).
When you, and I, were kids Communists were not “teachers” — that is not the case now….
That is where we error. When we were kids the teachers that were communists were quiet and indoctrinating the generations that would be openly communist. We are in the third or possibly fourth full generation of communists teaching our children. We (as a nation) send them off to school where the system has or children more of their waking hours than we will. Then we pay exorbitant amounts to ship them off to “higher education” at IndoctrinateU for the final cementation of their leftist indoctrination.
At the end of it all we are bewildered that our children don’t respect or even know our values, when they spend 3/4 off their waking hours being trained by those who do not hold those values.
Caleb, thank you for your comment, and agreed, not everyone is in a position to homeschool, and for some of them, there are very good reasons.
I am not in the mood to entertain holy martyrs to the cause who dictate otherwise for the whole world.
Government schools are crap, even with CRT gone. EVERYONE needs to work for their abolition and a return of the monies into the hands of the taxpayers to spend as THEY see fit. The ONLY reason private schools are so expensive is because the government STEALS money from everyone and provides an easy out for most folks. That leaves private schools the option of being exclusive, rather than trying to gain the customer dollars from everyone in society. Only a truly free market in education, free of ALL government influence, can ever deliver what society truly needs and what parents and kids deserve. Homeschooling my not be functional for everyone, but if everyone who COULD make it work, did, the system of government day prisons would collapse nearly overnight. That would be a win-win for everyone.
Last data I saw a gub’mt school ran $8000 / year.
Home school at all cost.
Join others and share the cost and time requirement.
It is easier than you think, as a child who is allowed to learn in his own style will quickly become 90%
self-taught.
You can also focus on those subjects that interest him and minimize attention to those that do not.
Brutus
https://twitter.com/TickTockTuna/status/1412409838970224652?s=20
There’s so little racism in America that it must be manufactured
https://fakehatecrimes.org/
Unfortunately for the commies the demand for racism, far outstrip the supply.
They have to supplement it with the racism hoaxes.
My goodness…Adam Driver in makeup?
good one, Formerly
…almost clutching his pearls, no less.
Seriously, Kylo Sen was totally screwed when as he came to understand that the former Emperor had set him up as only the last domino to fall.
Will the NTU and other Communist “Allies” realize that they aren’t the shot-callers before the Year Zero squads come to take them away?
Nothing would make me much happier than to see Members of NTU board as many airliners & ships as it will take to deposit them in their beloved Communist Countries.
No reentry to the United States of America, our Constitutional Republic, is permitted.
You have destroyed generations of of our youth. Take those as hard headed as yourselves with you, & we will try to redeem those who are still confused by your hatred.
Republicans- put this to a to vote. Treason & Marxists have no place even remotely close to our youth AND our tax – supported schools.
Many of us are watching & sick of the brass rings always awarded these treasonists.
Pass this around. The longest journey begins with a single step! ??♥️
Communism is still against the law in America. We the people need to demand the Rule of Law be enforced. This can only happen if we educate ourselves and get rid of all the lies we have been taught.
An excellent website is National Liberty Alliance dot org
We are running out of time to save our Nation from utter destruction.
What makes them think they have any right to tell parents anything or to exercise any control over what is being taught? Teachers can be compared to servers in the food and alcohol industry. The customer (children, who because of their age, are represented by parents)) decides what they want, the product is made by a specialist (textbook authors and publishers), and then the finished product is delivered to the clients by the server (teachers). That is the way it works. Without that model of standardization, teachers calling what gets taught would make keeping track of anything an impossibility. Teachers, teach what you are told to teach and stay out of deciding what to teach.
Their union has to dump another $2.5 million to fight against the parents because the teacher’s union is losing. https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/07/06/school-board-recalls-nearly-double-as-parents-fight-crt-pandemic-policies/
The funny thing with all the hitler quotes and pictures is that he actually fought against most things conservatives are fighting for. Hitler was a conservative, haha
Hitler was a National socialist, hence the nazi party. Hitler had a lot of good ideas, but got side tracked and went down the wrong path. He did bring Germany out of crushing poverty forced on them after WW1 and gave the people back their power.
Mao, who was backed by the see eye a was much worse.
As Tucker suggested last night, legislatures should ban teaching this crap and mandate cameras in every classroom with citizen/parent review boards to monitor what’s taught in classrooms. As he said, body cams are required for police. Now require them for teachers.
Sometimes I wish I was a kid again
Let’s just say my mother would be picking me up from the principals office everyday .
Perhaps that would be considered my white privilege?
Yet another example of just how fundamentally out of touch the DC establishment is with the citizens of America!
Teaching the truth is not radical or wrong! Unless it’s about Hydroxychloroquine, Zinc, Vitamin D, FBI Crime statistics, Welfare statistics or Race and IQ.
Note: the $2.5M is paid by those same parents. Their tax dollars at work!
Teachers’ union supports certain school board candidates. I always vote for the candidates I like who are NOT supported by the teachers’ union. The school boards are supposed to represent the community not the teachers’ union.
Let’s put cameras in classrooms.
That should solve many issues, no?
Actually it would be interesting and educational, although invasive. Back in 1990s, teacher of one of my daughters video’d one of the boys in the classroom who had been kicking the teacher in the shins. The principal didn’t seem to believe the teacher, but video was proof.
There were other situations involving physical violence that might have been resolved by discussion following video viewing.
NO ONE objects to the honest teaching of history. What I OBJECT to is teaching children to hate each other, or themselves, based on the color of their skin.
Exactly. Extremely disingenuous to frame the conflict as teachers needing to be defended for teaching about racism and slavery.
Some of the useful idiots in academia are way overrated just because they went to a university and got a PHD, DR. Notice that all these highly intelligent minds have not solved any problems they just make them worse.
Is that dumb female aware that Hitler killed her ancestors? Yet, here she is wearing the uniform with invisible Swastika!
School choice. The money follows the student. Charter schools. Abolish the Federal dept. of Education. No need for it what so ever. It awards money to school districts that accept it’s policy’s like CRT. Schools are a local responsibility.
They’re so committed to the lie, it is truth.
They don’t think they’ve embraced a fabricated history and a warped narrative of current events, and they aren’t running with all of it just to stick it to all of us MAGA supporters, they have silenced all alarms and warnings that poke at their brains and say “pssstttt … you’re lying again”, and have taken on an uppity, we’re better than all of you mere peasants attitude, patting each other on the back as they tell each other they are truthful and justified and righteous and MUST do this to save something, I don’t know … to save the world…?
They’re doing it for an over the top narcissistic and self-gratifying thing like watch us save the planet – we’re sooooooooooooo awesome!!! … don’t you want to hang out with us?
And every single time they’re laughed at via memes, pushed aside and told they’re horrible people and will be stopped, they cannot believe their eyes, because how in the world would anyone NOT want them to save the world!?
Their own gaslighting was the most effective on each other.
#MAGA
They will never pull this off! The People are awakening!
(not to be confused with woke!}