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Teachers unions are political machines that prioritize money and power. While many classroom teachers truly care about the students they teach, union activists do not. In order to improve educational opportunities and freedom for the nation’s educators and students, we must first acknowledge and expose the pernicious influence of the teachers’ unions. The American Federation of Teachers (AFT), recently brought active union members to Washington, DC to lobby Congress and attend professional development sessions. AFT leader Randi Weingarten claimed that the conference would focus on the essentials of literature and math, but instead, it included the following topics:
- Affirming LGBTQIA+ Identities in and out of the Classroom
- Strategies for Integrating Climate Change into Your Teaching
- The Pedagogy of Educational Equity: Strategies to Interrupt Unconscious Bias in the Classroom
- Cultural Appropriation: Yikes! I Didn’t Realize
- Shaping Academic Minds Through Identity-Affirming Practices
- The TGNCNB (transgender, gender nonconforming, nonbinary) Inclusive School and Classroom
- Youth Justice in Practice: Moving from Restorative Circles to Restorative Systems
The AFT is clearly most concerned with activism that distracts from academic issues facing students like learning loss and historically low math and reading scores.
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