Largest Teachers’ Union Commits to Embracing a Radical LGBTQ: This week, delegates at the National Education Association’s (NEA) annual representative assembly in Orlando, Florida, passed a resolution promising the union will organise against anti-LGBTQ legislation and so-called “book banning,” while also strengthening protections for LGBTQ educators.
According to Education Week, the measure addresses “the prevalence of discrimination and violence targeted” at LGBTQ individuals by “mobilising against legislative attacks, providing professional development on LGBTQ+ issues for educators, and strengthening contract protections for LGBTQ+ educators.”
According to the study, the new order of business is the assembly’s most expensive voteable item, costing over $580,000. “Educators Rally for Freedom to Learn,” read the headline of a Wednesday article on the NEA’s news website. “A growing chorus of diverse voices are demanding that politicians stop banning books and politicising public education.”
According to the union, “thousands” of educators congregated in Florida for its annual meeting to protest Gov. Ron DeSantis’ (R) Parental Rights in Education law, which prohibits K-12 students from discussing sexual orientation and gender identity in the classroom.
The National Education Association (NEA) emphasised the argument advanced by the Left during its “Freedom to Learn” demonstration that parental rights legislation is a “attack on students.”
According to the article, Florida Education Association President Andrew Spar pledged, “We will show this governor and other dictators that they cannot take us back to the 1950s.” “We will move forward!”
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Teachers wore t-shirts that read “Don’t Say, Gay,” which Education Week reported was meant to symbolise the Left’s attempt to discredit Florida’s parental rights legislation.
The union’s “demands” included “a life free of hate, harassment, and harm for the LGBTQ+ community,” with a particular emphasis on the protection of transgender minors.
“NEA! For the sake of today’s and tomorrow’s children, we must—and will—win this battle, and I have no doubt that we will do so with your zeal and resolve. The following statement was issued by NEA President Becky Pringle regarding DeSantis and other Republicans.
The National Education Association (NEA) recently published a list of “summer reading” books for teachers, which includes, among others, Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility, which the union claims “explores why White people are so bad at talking about racism,” and Maira Kobabe’s Gender Queer, which the union describes as “about identifying outside the gender binary,” while glossing over its pornographic content.
Jay P. Greene, Ph.D., a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, stated in May that the radical left’s narrative regarding book prohibition is “false.”
PEN America, an organisation that defends poets, essayists, and novelists, reported that 2,532 volumes were removed from classrooms during the 2021-2022 school year, according to Greene.
PEN In the United States, a number of well-known works, including The Diary of Anne Frank, Brave New World, Lord of the Flies, and Of Mice and Men, were deemed illegal.
Before addressing the issue of books containing s*xually explicit material that is inappropriate for young readers, Greene stated, “In every school district where PEN America alleges that these books were banned, we found copies listed in the online card catalogue.”
Greene argues that those who oppose the availability of these books in school libraries are not book banners. People who refuse to defer to the unilateral authority of teachers and librarians to determine what children should have access to in the absence of democratic oversight or parental input are not fascists.
The executive director of the nonpartisan teacher union Professional Educators of Tennessee in Nashville, JC Bowman, cited a 1947 essay by Martin Luther King, Jr.
“King’s words remain relevant today,” Bowman remarked, citing the civil rights leader’s statement that “Intelligence plus character — that is the goal of true education.”
“Our organisation, Professional Educators of Tennessee, has a legislative programme that aligns with the values and priorities of classroom educators,” explained Bowman. Our advocacy efforts are concentrated on education in Tennessee, as opposed to broader national social issues.
Bowman observed the damage caused by national unions with radical agendas to numerous educators.
The majority of teachers in the Volunteer State are more concerned with the academic progress of their students than with social issues forced on them by teacher unions and other organisations. The purpose of teachers’ unions is detrimental to the educators on the front lines of classrooms across the nation.
