Quote:The National Education Association proposed a resolution that would change the word "mother" in contracts to "birthing parent" for the purpose of being inclusive to the LGBTQIA+ community.

NEA's resolutions, called new business items (NBI) represent the teachers' union's opinions and beliefs. Many resolutions were voted on Wednesday by the Representative Assembly (RA), comprised of 6,000 educators, in Chicago as well as virtually. The resolution on the language change – NBI 63 – was ultimately not brought to a vote.

"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 families," the proposed resolution said.

Fox News Digital reached out to the NEA but did not immediately receive a response.

NBI's are proposed by the union's delegates. It takes 50 delegate sponsors to bring the NBI to the RA floor for debate and then to a vote, according to Education Week.

Tiffany Justice of Moms for Liberty told Fox News Digital that she is now calling the NEA the "K-12 Cartel" because they are holding parents and children hostage to a radical agenda.

"We believe in American teachers, and we don't believe that the lack of focus that the union has on children is represented," she said.

"Normal people don't use the term chestfeeding or birthing person or any of this stuff," Nicole Neily of Parents Defending Education said. "I think it just further underscores how completely out of touch the teachers' unions… are from the concerns of normal parents."

"It's horrifying," she told Fox News Digital.

Elana Fishbein from No Left Turn in Education said the proposed resolution represents how the left wants to destroy the family.

"They are arrogant. They are dismissive of the family, the parents. It's beyond Orwellian. Even in science fiction, I don't know if you can have such a script of complete destruction of human society," she said.

NEA delegates struck down a proposed resolution that would support a "national policy of mandatory masking and COVID vaccines in schools." A similar NEA resolution was proposed last year and was also scrapped by delegate voters.

Past year's resolutions included support for reparations.

"The Association acknowledges that both historical and current practices have systematically advantaged and privileged people of White European ancestry while disadvantaging and denying rights, opportunities, and equality for people of color," a resolution on racial justice said.

Another resolution called for educators to fight back against "institutionally racist systems."

"The National Education Association believes that, in order to achieve racial and social justice, educators must acknowledge the existence of white supremacy culture as a primary root cause of institutional racism, structural racism, and white privilege," the resolution said.

"The Association believes that school districts must provide training in cultural competence, implicit bias, restorative practices and techniques, and racial justice," it continued.

One resolution called for the protection of the rights of the accused in child abuse cases. "Any such allegation should be investigated and resolved immediately without name disclosure," the resolution on allegations against employees said. "The National Education Association believes education employees should be protected from allegations of child abuse made in bad faith."

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This is another instance of an organization that started to assist teachers but now has become politically motivated for the left.

When can we start labeling teachers "ignorant persons"?

(07-07-2022 01:38 PM)B_Hawk06 Wrote:  When can we start labeling teachers "ignorant persons"?

Don't you mean ig'nant

(07-07-2022 02:50 PM)Eldonabe Wrote:  

(07-07-2022 01:38 PM)B_Hawk06 Wrote:  When can we start labeling teachers "ignorant persons"?

Don't you mean ig'nant

Yes. lol

Let's be clear...there's a difference between teacher unions and teachers.

In KY, technically we don't have a teachers union because by law teachers can't strike and they don't have collective bargaining statewide. They do have the KEA (KY Educators Association) which is an affiliate of the NEA. KY teachers aren't required to join and most don't. In my experience as an educator in KY, usually those who do join fall into 3 categories (1) brand new teachers who join for security but typically drop out after a couple years (2) Liberal teachers (3) Bad/Lazy Teachers who use it to keep their job. There's usually a lot of overlap between #2 and #3..

Most teachers in KY are conservative and just do their job and don't support the NEA and usually don't support the KEA because the dues go to support liberal causes and candidates. More often than not it always seemed the KEA rep for the school was usually the fat and lazy teacher or one of the artsy liberals.

Altho social media is full of extremist liberal woke teachers, they are a small minority but they're vocal. Much like anything with conservatives, we live day to day doing the right thing and don't toot our horns or virtue signal.

Conservatives by our nature do things every single day to support our fellow citizens (adopt, help the poor, support the elderly, clean up after ourselves, are patriotic, defend those who can't defend themselves, and much more) but most of it goes without notice because we do it from the heart, not to look good, virtue signal, or demand someone else should pay for it. Teachers are the same. I'd bet this is the case in most parts of the country.