Posted on 08/11/2022 5:15:11 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The largest teachers’ union in the country recently proposed that its summer 2022 reading list for students include a book that defends the act of disrespecting the National Anthem by kneeling for it before sporting events.
As reported by The Daily Caller, the National Education Association (NEA) lists the book “Why We Fly” on its website for suggested reading in August of 2022, as students prepare to return to school. The book includes marijuana use by teenagers and focuses on two cheerleaders who decide to kneel for the National Anthem after being inspired to do so by a football player who did the same, a reference to how the real-world protest of the Anthem was started by disgraced NFL player Colin Kaepernick.
The NEA’s website also lists several discussion questions that would be asked after students finish reading the book, including: “What does it mean to be an ally? An accomplice? When are good intentions not good enough? What examples of discrimination, racism, or racial privilege can you identify from the book? From your own experiences?”
Also listed on the website is an article titled “Understanding #TakeAKnee and Athlete Activism,” which further supports the act of disrespecting the Anthem and even compares Kaepernick to civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.
“How do you think players deciding to boycott games could lead to social change,” students are asked in relation to the article.
Marxist indoctrination even in summer reading.
How about summer readings on “advanced torture for NEA members”?
Yet another reason to home school.
As a teacher forced to teach this, I would add my own questions about spectator activism and boycotts.
This is 🐂💩.
I’m so glad my kids are grown up.
How about including a book about disrespecting the National Archives?
The ALL POWERFUL TEACHERS UNIONS
THEY WILL NOT STOP!!!!
Waterboarding is a fairly easy and affective method.
When will equal time be allowed ? Required reading of disrespect the Nation should equal time be allowed …. Respect of the Nation
Until parents can get their children into private schools they must warn the kids about public school teachers daily.
What would happen to a teacher who called for students to read “The Federalist Papers” and “The Anti-Federalist Papers”?
With bonus credits for reading the latest FBI Uniform Crime Reports and commenting on the tables relating to crime breakdowns by race.
Anyone who does this should receive a beating from other spectators. If kneeling is to become a tradition, then so should butt whuppins. Stop coddling those ingrates. They have nothing to protest. Their grievances are due to their own cultures inability to get along with anyone, not some imagined white boogieman.
“after being inspired to do so by a football player”
so... they are doing it because of a boy, instead of doing it to bring attention to the issue of the day in this country?
put another way- the book shows the cheerleaders to be followers or sheep, instead of rational, thinking, reasoning people.
I’ll be sure that this is never read by my kids.
Communist bast*rds.
Fire the NEA - immediately.
America hating Union thugs programming and brainwashing our kids and we’re letting them get away with it. Talk about a nation of ignorant bastards. This is it.
Isnt summer over, the local schools open up in mid Aug and never have I heard a book report be assigned. All this is press announcements from a few people in the union who do not negate anything. You know what kids read this summer, just about nothing, perhaps a few had to pay to put gas in the scooter, they are republican voters now.
This Republic is being consumed by evil!
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