The president of the nation’s largest teachers’ union told union delegates at the start of the Representative Assembly (RA) Sunday that 2016 was the year of a “fateful election,” one that made clear the U.S. Supreme Court would become “radicalized.”
In her keynote address Sunday in Chicago, National Education Association (NEA) President Becky Pringle targeted former President Donald Trump for his choices in appointing Supreme Court justices.
Together, as one union, we will reclaim public education as a common good and ensure our schools are places where everyone, EVERYONE can learn, grow, and thrive. The #RedForEd movement continues. pic.twitter.com/SCvqlnxCgx
— Becky Pringle (@BeckyPringle) July 6, 2022
“We knew we would feel the effects of a radicalized Supreme Court issuing decisions that do not reflect the views of the values of America,” Pringle told her delegates:
We knew that the ground had shifted and the stage had been set to move us further away from the promise of America for all Americans, from decisions on school prayer that attack religious freedom, to vouchers that threaten the right to a universal public education, to the long-term, devastating impact of the Supreme Court’s decision to hijack the fundamental freedom to decide for ourselves, when and how to have a family and the care that we need.
“Like me, you knew these decisions were coming,” Pringle told the delegates. “That still didn’t change the gut-punch it delivered. But, I also know this. Like me, you absorbed that punch and you stood up.”
“As we have for decades, we will fight tirelessly for the right to choose,” the union leader said. “We will never stop.”
Next, Pringle targeted Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ Parental Rights in Education legislation, which leftists refer to as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. The measure bans classroom teaching on gender identity and sexual orientation in grades K-3.
“We will fight unceasingly for the rights of our LGBTQ plus students and educators,” Pringle said. “We will say ‘gay’; we will say ‘trans’; we will use the words that validate our students and their families that encourage them to walk in their authenticity, to love themselves fully to be who they are meant to be.”
U.S. Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona also referred to the Florida Parental Rights in Education legislation, which took effect July 1, as the “Don’t Say Gay” law.
“As a father and as Secretary of Education, I am deeply disheartened that the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law went into effect in Florida today and I worry about its effects on young people and families in the state,” Cardona stated, adding:
The new law also is part of a dangerous trend across the country, where we are seeing legislation targeting the LGBTQI+ community. I’ve spoken to parents and families in Florida numerous times, and they’ve consistently told me that this legislation doesn’t represent them or what they want for their children, and that it put Florida students in danger of bullying and worse mental health outcomes.
My new study released today by @Heritage finds that easing access to puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones has actually increased youth suicide rates, contrary to the claims of the Biden admin, advocates, and flawed prior research. 1/ https://t.co/XM4o4ioeOA
— Jay P. Greene (@jaypgreene) June 13, 2022
A recent study by the Heritage Foundation, however, found that creating easy access to puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for young people actually increases youth suicide rates, contrary to the claims of Biden administration officials such as Cardona.
NEA provides a “toolkit” of LGBTQ+ “resources” for public school teachers to help them support “transgender and non-binary students” and to be “more inclusive of LGBTQ+ history in their classrooms, and to stop LGBTQ+ bias and intolerance in our public schools.”
Among the “resources” is a website section that provides “What You Need to Know About State Laws Attacking Transgender Youth.”
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Susan Berry, PhD, is national education editor at The Star News Network. Email tips to [email protected].
Photo “Becky Pringle” by Becky Pringle.
Your views are not everyone’s views. Why do we have to label people/children? Why can’t people just be people and children be children????? Why do you make it such a big deal what they are sex-wise?
I thought that the NEA President might at least have had a basic class in American government. It appears not to be the case.
SCOTUS reflects law and the Constitution, not “the will of the people”. If the woman wants her views and beliefs reflected, then go get Congress to reflect them. Where she will find out that HER views are not even a plurality, much less a majority, of Congress.
Is it any wonder that the NEA supports the radical fringe ideas it does with such ignorant leadership?
Sounds familiar. Sharing the same teleprompter with POTUS?
i love the fact that these people think the Supreme Courts purpose to make their decisions on feelings instead of Constitutional law. Everyone also tends to forget what is in our country’s Declaration of Independence. The piece of paper that gave life to our forefathers in their fight against Great Britian to gain our independence as a free country. All of you need to get a copy of it and READ IT!
Wokeism is a toxic stew of left-wing philosophies that have merged into a self-perpetuating eruption of destructive nonsense flowing down from our universities into our K-12 classrooms, corporate boardrooms, and government centers. (Please read on.)
The woke [those that believe in and teach wokeism] don’t care about truth, only about the advancement of their narrative.
Critical theory teaches the woke (those that are just getting into this movement) that there is a hierarchy of oppression in the world. At the top sit straight, white Christian men. They have the most of what the woke call “privilege,” and because of that, their opinions should be dismissed.
Anyone who expresses opinions that do not fit into the woke narrative is declared to have an inauthentic voice or having internalized oppression/racism.
The woke believe racism pervades all of society, affects all our institutions and policies, and manifests itself in every single interaction we have as a people. As a result of this mindset, the woke see racism everywhere and feel compelled to “call it out” so it can be dismantled. (So, I suppose this is the basis for the rioting and what we call the great reset.)
The idea of “whiteness” is a key concept for the woke and they want white people to become hyperaware of their racial identity. On this idea, a speaker of The Yale School of Medicine’s Department, Dr. Aruna Khilanani said, “White people are out of their minds and have been for a long time. She then bragged about cutting most white people out of her life. (This sound like Lori Lightfoot, the mayor of Chicago.)
Ibram Kendi stated explicitly that schools should be used as centers of indoctrination rather than education. He argues that teachers must teach their students anti-racist ideas. However, as an anti-racist scholar said, “I am white. White people can never be anything but oppressors…Being complicit with racism is something that we as white people just are.
The woke define whiteness in purely negative terms and then force white people to identify with that negativity. This, said Newt Gingrich, is cultlike behavior and is the first step in brainwashing.
Wokeism claims that American ideals (such as hard work and merit) are a lie since it is part of the white culture.
American educational system has failed under woke leadership! What else would you expect when their crazy ideas start getting questioned.
Yes 2016 was a fateful election, it opened the eyes of Americans to the Hate, Racism, Dishonesty and Totalitarianism of the liberal left. And they are not happy about it, their plotting, scheming and planning has been exposed. They will be stopped.
So you really think that insisting on calling Mothers “birthing persons” isn’t radicalized and reflects the views and values of Americans? That’s so preposterous as to be beyond comprehension. The NEA is destroying itself with its wokeist philosophy and handling of covid.
Accepting and tolerating gays is what the call to action used to be. Now it’s promotion. Why? It’s biologically dysfunctional and there are lots of psycholigical challenges with it as well, suicide rates, etc. And – we still have AIDs, and now monkeypox.
If that weren’t enough, 4 out of 5 proctologists agree that an*l sex isn’t all it’s….. cracked up to be.
From my tenth grade civics class. The courts decide if laws are legitimate based on constitutions and president. It has nothing to do with views and values of the people.
I belong to the NEA for years I do not feel the same as she does. Also we have mother‘s and fathers not birthing parent or nonbirthing parent. Nowhere in the law that was written by DeSantis did it ever say don’t say gay that’s ridiculous too. Children’s third grade and below just want friends they don’t care if their parents are two fathers or two mothers or what we don’t have to teach that. They have enough stress in their life we don’t have to add to it.
The indoctrination of our children to hate their skin color and to feel guilty for something that took place 400 years ago is totally wrong. The dangerous precedent is being pushed not by conservatives, but progressives and liberals that claim a man can have a baby and they have no definition for what describes an adult woman. They expect people to use pronouns when addressing someone when we don’t have a clue what the person wants to be called. It is time we stop the bovine excrement and drop all this politically correct insanity.
She obviously doesn’t understand the Constitution and the role of the Supreme Court. As an educator she should be better informed. The Justices aren’t elected and are there to interpret the Constitution, not make law. Congress is supposed to make laws and reflect the will of the people in accordance with the Constitution.
The NEA has become s useless to America as a dead worm.
The Marxist union officials live in a alternate reality. Their version of America looks more like the Soviet Union.
Better stick to making potato chips there lady. Your communist views and indoctrination will cease to exist on 1/1/2023.
What a corrupt, brainwashed fool. This policy will harm a generation of American individuals, families, and society at large!
Guardrails are what is needed, but instead she jumps of the cliff and wants to take all of us with her.
Fight back, people!!!