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.
How about summer reading on gun safety?
We must prohibit the existence of Teachers Unions in OUR Taxpayer Funded Schools. There is no legitimate purpose at all for the Unions to be allowed.
Guessing few of these assclowns have actually lived under regimes that REALLY don’t care about your “rights”. 😵😠
Maoists at work.
If my kid ever brought this book home with him I would burn it and send the ashes back to the school. Fortunately I have been able to send my children to a private school that does not bow down to the woke.
The left wonder why 300,000 teachers nation wide quit because of Communist classes.
Or how about summer reading programs for Christian kids on how to glorify God in their daily lives and how to stand for righteousness by taking a stand against anti-human, anti-Christian ideologies that endanger the souls of the kids who are forcibly indoctrinated?
My older sister (retired) was a teacher for many years and she has a subversive turn of mind towards Christianity and conservatism; it would be right up her alley to do something like that.
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