Given the poor state of public education, failing schools, and number of kids who cannot read, etc, the teachers union should quit all the social activism and focus on actually teaching kids. But, this will never happen. Public schools are screwed, the kids they are supposed to be teaching are screwed, and our taxes fund it all.
My kids Go to public schools in Olympia, Wa.
They are going into the 8th and 10th grades respectively.
They are at the top in each of their classes.
Of course they went to private school K-6.