Leftist Public School Teachers Are Politicizing Our Children and Putting Them At Risk
Why is America's largest teachers' union encouraging students to skip school?
Why is America’s largest teachers’ union encouraging students to skip school?
(Matt Himes, Blaze Media) - Why is the National Education Association encouraging students to skip school?
Yesterday (two weeks ago) was May 1 — May Day — and across the country, activists staged coordinated demonstrations under the banner of “no work, no school, no shopping.”
The National Education Association — with roughly 3 million members, making it the largest labor union in the United States — was among the organizations supporting the effort. On its website, the NEA offers organizational resources for participants, including a “solidarity toolkit.”
May Day? Mayday!
The union frames May Day as part of a long tradition of labor activism, tracing its roots to the late 19th-century movement for the eight-hour workday.
Broadly speaking, that’s true.
But May Day also carries a more complicated legacy. Over the course of the 20th century, it became closely associated with socialist and communist movements worldwide, and in the United States it has often re-emerged as a vehicle for broader political protest.
That broader agenda is evident in some of the demands the NEA…