Posted on 11/18/2020 10:26:04 AM PST by Red Badger
The National Education Association, the endorsement of which in March helped push Joe Biden further into the lead against Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, has delivered its wish list to the Democrat, and it includes icing ICE, packing the courts with liberals, and curbing school rules such as zero tolerance.
In its 50-page “NEA Policy Playbook,” the nation’s largest teachers union also urged Biden to adopt a long list of liberal policies to limit the expansion of charter schools, to block teachers from having guns, and to grant amnesty to hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants.
The report is expected to be closely studied by the Biden team, which sought the NEA's endorsement.
According to reports, Biden is considering two union officials for education secretary, Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, and former NEA President Lily Eskelsen Garcia.
In a statement accompanying the report, the NEA put a focus on minorities and called for a war on “white supremacist culture,” capitalizing groups for emphasis, including “People of Color.”
Said the policy report to Biden: “The administration needs to resolve funding inequities by driving more resources to students and communities with the greatest needs. In addition, the country needs an unadulterated national repudiation of white supremacist culture, and we expect the administration to reaffirm to all families, especially Native People and People of Color, that no haven exists for hate crimes, white supremacy, and anti-immigrant policies.”
Key to that is the NEA’s backing of adding more judges to federal courts. The report said that Republicans have controlled the picks for too long and that there are too many white men on the bench.
“The lower federal court judges are young, extreme ideologues, who do not reflect the modern United States. Of the 218 federal judges confirmed under the Trump administration, 76% are men and 84% are white,” said the report.
It recommended as judges “People of Color, women, LGBTQ people, those with disabilities, immigrants, and those from various religious backgrounds. Prioritize nominating lawyers for judgeships who have represented labor unions, workers, consumers, immigrants, or civil rights plaintiffs.”
Biden has said he would create a commission to consider judicial reforms.
The influential group that represents 3 million teachers and staff also put a heavy emphasis on immigration, calling for a path to citizenship for younger illegal immigrants and an end to ICE raids, which the union said scares illegal immigrants.
And it claimed that zero tolerance and similar policies “fed by institutional racism” that aim to keep schools safe and drug free create a “schools-to-prison pipeline” that targets minorities and that they want the rules altered.
I have said for years that the NEA is the most dangerous organization in the country, GET YOUR KIDS OUT OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS!
The NEA is a communist organization, hell bent on brainwashing our kids!!!!
AMEN
The NEA and SEIU...
Both are out of sync with America.
You sure have that right..
I lay the confused, angry and suicidal state of today’s students at the feet of the NEA fat cats.
Court packing, toss out ICE, more tranny judges? Trump better win because otherwise we’re going to war. This is the stuff of tyrants.
We are going to need miles and miles of rope.
true, it primarily protects incompetent teachers, but you would think that they would at least address the issue of violent public schools. maybe they cover that with really good health insurance.
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It is now clear that the NEA are enemies of the people.
“it’s weird. the NEA is allegedly a teachers union, but its policies are helping get teachers’ a$$es literally kicked in increasingly violent public schools.”
Worse is better, and the goal of destroying God’s work is so important that they are quite willing to send souls to Satan ahead of schedule.
Home school bump.
The national teachers union is straight up marxist and racist. wow.
‘repudiation of white supremacist culture’ = Math
A packed court is a dictatorship.
For people who crave power, their ignorance is stunning. Congress, and the President, instituting this, would be giving up their powers.
There is no purpose, except kabuki theatre, for a legislature or executive if anything can be deemed law by a majority of Justices.
Some complain about judges having too much power and seek to make it unlimited. And they are appointed for life.
What is to stop a cabal of judges from getting together, and just deciding what will happen? Just wait until “No you can’t impeach us ‘cause you didn’t follow the rules” is declared.
“It is so ordered” are scary enough words even before they are divorced from justice.
These are the people teaching our children.
Shut down the public schools period.
I’m done with this garbage. You want dividing lines - you’ve made them.
You purple haired Starbucks drinking people have no power in the real world.
Yep. If there was any doubt, this pulled them out of the closet and into the light of day.
ABOLISH THE DEPARTMENT OF INDOCTRINATION !!!!!
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