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‘They Should Be Worried:’ Teachers Union Attempts to Fight Moms Over Parental Rights Advocacy
A Pennsylvania teachers union conference featured a session on fighting parental rights advocacy.
The Pennsylvania State Education Association’s southern region conference last week featured a session on “Combatting Moms for Liberty Attacks on our Teachers and our Schools.”
Moms for Liberty is a grassroots nonprofit organization formed by moms who were former school board members whose members advocate for parental rights in schools across the country.
“Moms for Liberty jumped onto the political scene in 2021 at the height of the pandemic,” the session description says. “Seemingly overnight, an army of parents and community members started showing up at board meetings with a coordinated message, aggressively protesting the teaching of the misnomer ‘critical race theory’ and the wearing of Covid masks.”
Based on Marxist ideology, critical race theory says everything in public and private life must consider racial identities. Moms for Liberty encourages parents to advocate for their children’s education against schools that teach children that America is systemically racist.
With roughly 180,000 members, the Pennsylvania State Education Association is the largest public employee union in the state. It is an affiliate of the National Education Association, the largest labor union in the country.
The Pennsylvania State Education Association gives millions of dollars to Democratic candidates, including $775,000 to Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro’s 2022 gubernatorial campaign and more than $1 million to Democratic legislative candidates that year.
Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice said the union’s anti-parent session means her grassroots parental rights organization is on the right track.
“When your enemy names you as their enemy, it looks like we’re right on target,” she told The Daily Signal. “I think the teachers unions are the biggest enemy of public education.”
Moms for Liberty is fighting to reclaim education from teachers unions that prioritize the desires of adults over the needs of children, the mother of four said.
“My view is that the public education system is failing, and that there are many attempts to hide that educational failure from the American public,” Justice said. “But American parents are wise to all of this. What the teachers unions want is not representative of parents and families and teachers.”
Only 3 in 10 Pennsylvania eighth graders are proficient in math, an 11-percentage point decline from 2019, according to National Assessment of Educational Progress data.
Teachers unions falsely pedal the idea that Moms for Liberty is against public education, Justice said.
“Most people don’t fight for things they don’t care about. And we’re fighting for public education,” she said. “We’re going to reclaim it from the teachers unions. And then we’re going to reform it and make it work for kids.”
The presenter of the session, Lauri Lebo, accused Moms for Liberty of “targeting” public education and teachers unions.
“M4L chapters are now targeting school board races across the country and here in Southern Region,” the description says. “This session will explore the dark-money origins of this astroturf organization and its real long-term goal, as well as provide strategies on how to defeat them in the ballot box and at the board meeting.”
Lebo did not respond to questions about the union’s understanding of Moms for Liberty’s true goal. Justice said the long-term goal of her organization “is to defend our parental rights at all levels of government and to reclaim and reform public education.”
“We’re exposing the educational failure happening across the country,” Justice said. “Parents all across the country are making education and parental rights a priority.”
There is no proof that Moms for Liberty is funded by so-called dark money as the union claims, Justice said.
“Union leadership has to lie to teachers about us because if they told the truth, that we really want to help teachers, and we want to make sure kids get what they need at schools, and we want to make sure teachers are paid well to make sure that money isn’t being sucked from them into dues that are used for political action, then they would lose membership,” she explained.
“There are a lot more teachers joining Moms for Liberty than joining unions these days,” Justice said.
Justice and fellow mom Tina Descovich founded Moms for Liberty in 2021 after serving on their local school boards and seeing that schools were not focused enough on children, they said. Moms for Liberty is disrupting the power of teachers unions in public education, Justice stated.
“The teachers unions have had a lot of control and power for a very long time,” she said. “And they recognize the fact that we’re stepping in and we’re taking that control and power away from them.”
“They should be worried.”
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‘We’re Not Doing That Here,’ Oklahoma Schools Superintendent Says of DEI Instruction
Oklahoma is taking a lead on school choice programs and resisting far-left ideology in classrooms across the state.
“It is amazing how aggressive the Biden administration is with this radical agenda towards our schools,” Ryan Walters, Oklahoma’s state superintendent of public instruction, says. When he came into office, Walters says he told staffers there, “We’re not doing diversity, equity, and inclusion. We’re not doing that here.”
The leftist agenda in schools has gone well beyond DEI instruction, and now the Biden administration is considering changing the definition of sex in Title IX to include gender identity and sexual orientation, opening the door wide for biological boys and men to compete in girls and women’s sports and to use their restrooms and locker rooms.
“We’ve already submitted comment to the Biden administration and told them, ‘We’re suing you if you move down this road,’” Walters said.
Walters joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to explain the ways Oklahoma is fighting against the Left’s efforts to influence the next generation in the classroom and to discuss the state’s aggressive action to implement school choice programs.
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Twitter CEO Elon Musk expressed his concern about the spread of the so-called “woke mind virus” during a recent interview on HBO’s “Real Time” with Bill Maher
He attributed the rapid spread of wokeness to parents being unaware of the indoctrination happening in public schools and universities.
Musk shared his belief that this issue has been brewing for some time, with the extent of indoctrination in educational institutions far exceeding what parents realize.
He admitted to only recently becoming aware of the problem and emphasized that today’s high school and college experiences differ significantly from those of the past 10 to 20 years.
When Maher inquired whether parents were a significant part of the problem, Musk responded that parents might be in some cases, but the primary issue was their general lack of awareness about what their children are being taught or not being taught in schools.
Musk provided an example from a friend whose daughters attend high school in the Bay Area.
His friend asked his daughters about the first few US presidents, and while they could name George Washington, their knowledge about him was limited to the fact that he was a slave owner. Musk argued that students should have a more comprehensive understanding of historical figures.
This interview highlights Musk’s concern about the infiltration of wokeness in the education system, which he believes has led to the “woke mind virus” spreading rapidly.
By raising awareness about the issue, Musk hopes to encourage parents to take a more active role in understanding what their children are learning in schools and ensuring that they receive a more well-rounded education versus indoctrination.
https://thefederalistpapers.org/us/elon-musk-issues-dire-warning-parents-public-education
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