Posted on 07/07/2022 7:11:31 PM PDT by lightman
A volley of policy proposals has been put up for debate at the annual conference of the nation’s largest teacher’s union, including one that called for the organization to support making masks and COVID-19 vaccines mandatory in public schools.
About 6,000 delegates of the National Education Association (NEA), who collectively represent more than 3 million employees in public education, convened in Chicago from July 3–6. It’s the first time they’ve assembled in person to debate on issues and set policy agenda since the start of the pandemic.
Prior to 2022, anyone could use the NEA website to track the status of proposed agenda items, which are now only accessible by registered attendees of the assembly. A complete list of those proposals has been obtained and publicized online by Terry Stoops, a K-12 education expert at the John Locke Foundation.
One of the proposals, classified as New Business Item 37, called on the teachers’ union to support a “national policy of mandatory masking and COVID vaccines in schools,” as well as “high-quality virtual education for immune-compromised students and all families who want it by publicizing successful virtual education programs in public schools throughout the nation in existing media outlets.”
The item is similar to last year’s New Business Item 33, which didn’t get approved. Proposed by a representative from Oakland, California, it called for “mandatory safe and effective COVID-19 vaccinations and testing for all students and staff before returning to face-to-face instruction” in the fall of 2021.
Another proposed measure in the 2022 assembly, New Business Item 41, called on the NEA to “take all necessary steps” to “defeat and overturn” Florida’s new education law that bans the discussion of sexual orientation or gender identity in kindergarten through 3rd-grade classrooms, as well as other laws that are deemed “homophobic and anti-transgender.”
The NEA delegate who submitted the agenda item referred to the Florida law as the “Don’t Say Gay Bill,” despite the actual law not including any such language.
“The NEA will publicize our continued commitment to LGBT youth and all young people’s right to learn about and develop their own sexual orientation and gender identity,” the resolution reads. “The NEA will demonstrate its support for the independent mass actions of youth to defend their existence, dignity, and rights of the LGBT community by encouraging membership participation in rallies, pickets, etc.”
The other one, New Business Item 63, urged the union to replace certain terms with “LGBTQIA+ inclusive” alternatives. For example, “parental leave,” “birthing parent,” and “non-birthing parent” are considered better replacements of “maternity leave,” “mother,” and “father,” respectively.
“Using this contract language, members need not worry about how a Board of Education/solicitor defines ‘maternity leave,’ ‘mother,’ and/or ‘father;’ the language is an inclusive reflection of how LGBTQIA+ members build their families,” wrote the NEA delegate from New Jersey.
In New Business Item 34, a delegate from California called on the NEA to “publicly stand in defense of abortion and reproductive rights.” If adopted, the NEA would “encourage members to participate in activities including rallies and demonstrations, lobbying and political campaigns, educational events, and other actions to support the right to abortion, contraception, and a person’s decision about their health.”
“NEA is a social justice union that is a majority female and trans and gender non-conforming folx who will fight against these attacks,” it explained, describing “reproductive rights” as something not limited to women, but “all persons who are able to.”
Vice President Kamala Harris came to Chicago to deliver her remarks the day before the assembly concluded, praising the union for teaching “the principles of liberty and freedom in your classroom” and accusing Republican leaders of taking the educators’ freedom away.
“These so-called ‘leaders’ are taking freedoms away,” Harris said on July 5, reiterating the progressive narrative. “Freedom away from women and the freedom to make decisions over their own bodies; freedom away from a kindergarten-to-third-grade teacher in Florida to love openly and with pride; and away from every American as they intentionally try to make it more difficult for folks to vote.”
“We are 126 days away from an election, and we all know what we need to do,” she said.
The political contributions from the NEA overwhelmingly go to Democrats. According to watchdog website OpenSecrets, in the 2022 election cycle, the union has so far donated $1,418,866 to Democrat candidates, compared to just $11,320 to Republican ones.
The Epoch Times has reached out to the NEA to confirm the status of the aforementioned agenda items.
Covid is so 201984
We’ve gotten pretty far from “reading, writing and ‘rithmetic.”
After the SCOTUS Janus decision Mrs. L~ tried to get out of her NEA affiliate but was told (illegally, still being litigated) that she could not because one was “locked in” after a new contract was signed for the multi-year duration of that contract.
Now, thankfully, RETIRED!
I find it interesting that Benjamin Crump *spit* is joining a lawsuit against Baltimore School District
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Civil rights lawyer Ben Crump, who has represented the families of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and other people killed by police, has joined a lawsuit against Baltimore City Public Schools seeking court control of the school system.
If anyone contemplates how things got to be they way they are, here is just one example of a reason.
Pay attention to the filthy undies they run up their flagpole.
They will become DNC platform planks in two year.
EO’s (G-d help us) shortly thereafter.
In h____ already.
Romans 1
Psalm 2
I cannot imagine an organization any more bitter and anymore Marxist. And, women make up roughly 76% of all primary school teachers. What strikes me is that for unknown reasons, women, especially it seems teachers, have embraced leftism and Marxism, and have themselves become bitter radicals. The teacher’s unions across the country represent this disturbing trend in US females.
The question is, why have women become so strident in their discontent and in their outward display of radicalism? What happened to women?
No-fault divorce.
The Pill.
Abortion on demand.
1971...two years before Roe v. Wade...ploughing the ground.
Conquest's Second Law: "Any organization not explicitly and constitutionally right-wing will sooner or later become left-wing."
“freedom away from a kindergarten-to-third-grade teacher in Florida to love openly and with pride”
Okay, how did the teacher’s union become so perverted that we talk auto eight year olds about sticking wieners in other people’s rectums and we are proud about that?
These people are insane and religious schools aren’t much better. The Lutheran school in our neighborhood has a sign out saying “love is love”.
The Catholic University where I went flies the BLM flag, and BLM wants to break up the nuclear family.
We need to get this all over and separate into one normal nation and one perverted one, but the perverts are not satisfied until all publicly accept their (no longer) private behavior.
What they SHOULD be worried about is Arizona’s UNIVERSAL school voucher program, now that the Supreme Court has removed all obstacles. As more states follow, vouchers may well consign government education to “the ash heap of history”, to borrow a little NEA lingo.
(as to the NEA being interested in kids actually learning, that train left the station about 40 years ago, so why bother mentioning it - but I do get it, Public Schools are ‘FREE’)
meme today said “I think that we can conclude that the “Time Out” Generation didn’t produce as good a result as the @#$whoopin generation did”
See new tagline — thanks!
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