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Chicago Teachers Unions Want Kids to Take May Day Off to Rally Against President

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Any institution that has been infiltrated, subverted, and commandeered by moonbats is no longer about what it used to be about. It is about moonbattery. For example, K-12 education is no longer about education; it is about indoctrinating children and recruiting them into leftism.

Nowhere is this more obvious than in Chicago, where as Townhall reports, “Roughly 30 percent of [Chicago Public Schools] students can read on grade level; only 20 percent can do math.”

Daily Caller reports on what the unions calling the shots want kids to do instead of learn:

[Chicago Teachers Union], along with other unions, is planning a one-day strike on May 1 to protest what they call President Donald Trump’s “rising authoritarianism.” The union is calling on supporters to demand Chicago Public Schools give students the day off and “make May 1st an official day of civic action.”

May 1 aka International Workers’ Day has been regarded as a major holiday under Marxist regimes; it featured large-scale parades in the USSR. “Authoritarianism” is Liberalese for pushback against left-wing authoritarianism. Trump is not the one who wants an ever more intrusive government to enslave us through ever higher taxes and ever more suffocating regulations. That would be Democrats — speaking of whom:

Socialist Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, who has accepted millions in campaign contributions from the union, has signaled support for the union’s plan, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

No good comes of the unholy alliance between the Democratic Party and public sector unions.

On a tip from patthedog.

National Education Association Promotes Teaching Alien Language

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As we go about our daily lives, termites keep busy in the darkness, eating away at the foundations of our homes until they have been destroyed from within and are ready to collapse. Similar work is performed by teachers unions.

The New York Post reports on the “neopronouns” and “xeopronouns” the National Education Association pushed at a recent indoctrination session entitled “Advancing LGBTQ+ Justice”:

Neopronouns are “new” “pronouns” such as “xe/xem/xyr,” and other letters randomly shoved together.

Xeopronouns are for “conceptual identities” such as “cat/cats/catself.”

Because if a boy can identify as a girl, a girl can identify as a cat.

The alien language that the NEA’s 3 million members are teaching kids to speak may soon feature a different name for the USA:

The NEA is not entirely sure this whole “America” thing is going to stick, so they refer to it as “what we know as the United States of America” and “what we now call the United States of America” in multiple slides.

Maybe public school teachers will start referring to our country as “Turtle Island,” to keep pace with their comrades in Turtle Island Liberation Front.

Meanwhile,

The latest National Assessment of Educational Progress, also known as the nation’s report card, showed students have not recovered to pre-pandemic levels in math, reading and science.

Perhaps less time spent parsing the differences among “gender fluid,” “genderqueer” and “agender,” as one NEA slide attempted, is in order.

Education is no longer about education. It has been subverted by moonbats, so it is about moonbattery.

To get an idea of who is molding the next generation, let’s have another look at Becky Pringle, president of our largest teachers union:

On a tip from Jack D.

Minnesota’s Biggest Teachers Union Wages War on Whiteness

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Malevolent kooks at the University of Minnesota are not the only educators in this Somali colony who really don’t like the native population. The state’s largest teachers union, Education Minnesota, offers professional development courses on such topics as Interrupting Whiteness:

The “racial equity trainings” can be brought “to your building” when requested by Education Minnesota members, the union website explains, and offer instruction on topics like “Culturally Responsive Teaching With a Racial Justice Lens” and “Cultural Competency.”

“Racial justice” is Liberalese for antiwhite race hate. “Cultural competency” entails subordinating American and European culture to less successful ones.

In a state run by woke tyrants like Tim Walz and Keith Ellison, extreme moonbattery is mandatory:

Educators in the state are required to fulfill a “cultural competency” training in order to renew their teaching licenses, which can include topics such as “Systemic Racism,” “Gender Identity, Including Transgender Students,” “Language Diversity,” and more, according to the state government page.

The language diversity might prove useful. Soon you will need to speak Somali to get along in Minnesota.

The union website features similar content across the board, offering materials on “Anti-immigrant rhetoric & deportation,” various “anti-racism” resources, and a “racial and social justice” page claiming “certain politicians” are using police officers against minority students.

Even now, after the hundreds of race riots causing $billions in damages, the site continues to milk the thoroughly debunked “murder” of fentanyl victim George Floyd.

Again we see that teachers unions, leftist academia, the media, and the Democratic Party are all heads on the same Hydra.

Meanwhile, more than half of 4th-grade students in Minnesota tested below the national proficiency standard in 2024. About 66% of 8th-grade students tested below proficient in math in the same year, and 72% tested below proficient in reading.

Anything moonbattery infiltrates, it subverts. Anything it subverts, it renders useless for any purpose other than to advance moonbattery. Education is a case in point.

On a tip from Franco.

Training Materials Reveal Twisted Radicalism of National Education Association

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The Long March Through the Institutions has claimed teachers unions on behalf of the ultraleft, thereby subverting public education from its original purpose. Consequently, many students now graduate from high school without being able to read or do math. But it isn’t as if kids don’t learn anything. They learn moonbattery:

The National Education Association is hosting a training from Dec. 2-4 at an undisclosed location called “Advancing LGBTQ+ Justice and Transgender Advocacy” aimed at dismantling “strategic racism and transphobia,” the group Defending Education uncovered.

A training packet was obtained that reflects an alarming ideology.

Sessions will be aimed at “dismantling systems of privilege and oppression as it relates to LGBTQ+ educators and students” and “deepen[ing] skills and strategies to confront implicit bias, micro-aggressions and stereotypes,” according to the materials.

Although grooming by perverts plays a part in the LGBTification of education, the main purpose is explicitly political:

Republicans are characterized as using an “arsenal of racist dog whistles,’ according to training materials. Participants are instructed how to evoke a “Race Class Gender Narrative” to push back.

Teachers are encouraged to push transsexualism on children by various means, including pronoun pins and gender-transition guides. That should stick it good to Republicans.

The NEA is the largest teachers union in the country. Erika Sanzi, senior director of communications for Defending Education, observes that it has “morphed into a far-left insane asylum that is actively destroying the cause of education.”

Presenting Becky Pringle, president of the NEA:

Imagine a generation educated by that hebephrenic moonbat.

On a tip from Jack D.

Unions Demand Free Rent for Illegal Aliens

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The pro-illegal labor union SEIU confirmed its malevolence by helping Barack Obama to power. Now it confirms it again by calling upon their fellow moonbats running Los Angeles to declare a rent moratorium so that illegal aliens can live for free at American expense:

On Tuesday, representatives of the Los Angeles Tenants Union held a press conference with the Coalition of Labor Union Employees and the SEIU to demand the rent moratorium.

“We know that many tenants will not be able to pay their rent come July 1,” said Kenia Alcocer of LATU, who said she is also an illegal alien.

The argument is that illegal aliens cannot be expected to pay their rent because they are hiding from ICE agents, whose job is to kick them out of our country. These agents should start with Alcocer.

Daniel Yukelson of the Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles says the moratorium will hurt rental property owners.

“Over 85% of rental property owners in the city of Los Angeles are independent moms and pops who, for the most part, are already struggling to pay their bills,” he told KABC-TV.

But where liberalism prevails, illegal aliens are prioritized over American citizens. Trump explains why:

In a statement on social media, President Donald Trump accused officials in Los Angeles and other cities of being the “Democrat Power Center” that uses “Illegal Aliens to expand their Voter Base, cheat in Elections, and grow the Welfare State, robbing good paying Jobs and Benefits from Hardworking American Citizens.”

In the conflict between Americans and foreign invaders occupying our country, you can guess which side the media takes:

On a tip from WDS 2.0.

Largest Public Sector Union Takes Heavy Casualties

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Franklin Roosevelt was not right about much, but even he opposed public sector unions. Yet they have been allowed to flourish like weeds. Finally, a little Roundup is applied:

The largest union for federal employees is planning to lay off more than half of its staff nationwide after President Donald Trump’s executive actions have rapidly weakened the organization’s finances, the union said Thursday.

The American Federation of Government Employees will move ahead with a reduction in force that could cut its 355 employees to approximately 150, eliminating organizers, national representatives, support staff and others.

AFGE has been waging lawfare to stop DOGE from limiting the waste, fraud, and abuse that characterize federal spending.

The White House has declared AFGE a “hostile” organization that has too much power over how the government functions.

Public sector unions should be abolished entirely. Otherwise, the government will continue to bargain with itself until the taxpayers being fed upon by parasites calling themselves “public servants” have been bled dry.

On a tip from Chuck A.

NJ Teachers No Longer Need to Know the Three R’s

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Where DEI reigns supreme, competing standards must be abolished, for they are potentially racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic/fatphobic/ableist/etc. Therefore, teachers are no longer required to be able to read, write, or do math — at least, not in New Jersey, thanks to a new law that goes into effect today.

Via Daily Caller:

Individuals seeking an instructional certificate will no longer need to pass a “basic skills” test administered by the state’s Commissioner of Education.

Democratic State Senator Jim Beach sponsored the bill. He says it is the best way to recruit more teachers. Paying them more wouldn’t work, because teachers are already compensated handsomely for cushy jobs by New Jersey taxpayers.

A powerful teachers union, the New Jersey Education Association, was a driving force behind the bill, calling the testing requirement “an unnecessary barrier to entering the profession.”

Maybe Big Unions are right for once. The three R’s are not relevant anymore, if all students need to learn is that white people are bad, homosexuality is good, and the planet is doomed unless we embrace hand-to-mouth Marxism.

New Jersey followed the example of New York, which scrapped basic literacy requirements for teachers in 2017 in the name of “diversity.”

Let’s see how well it has worked out in New York:

Only about half of New York students in grades three through eight tested as proficient in English and Math in the 2022 to 2023 school year despite the state spending almost twice the national average on education and New York teachers remaining some of the highest-paid in the country, according to the National Education Association.

Rather than recoil in horror at what New York is doing to its children’s future, New Jersey followed its example — confirming that Democrats know perfectly well the damage their policies will cause.

Hat tip: Maggie’s Farm.

Brandon Johnson Uses Slavery to Justify Thievery

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No wonder Brandon Johnson sides with rioters against law-abiding citizens. He is a looter himself.

From the Wall Street Journal:

On Monday Mr. Johnson replaced the entire Chicago school board with his allies after the previous board resigned en masse last Friday. The previous board opposed the mayor’s plan to take a $300 million high-interest loan to hand raises to the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), which funded his election campaign.

Johnson ran on the Black Lives Matter platform. The scale of his looting puts even BLM to shame:

The Chicago school district is junk rated, so Mr. Johnson’s plan for a $300 million loan would cost CPS more than $700 million. The union wants 9% annual raises, climate initiatives and affordable housing units, among other non-teaching benefits that would cost between $10.2 billion and 13.9 billion, according to the Illinois Policy Institute.

The insatiable greed of public sector unions and their allies is driving the entire state into bankruptcy. Against those who don’t approve, Johnson brandishes the slavery card:

“When our people wanted to be liberated and emancipated in this country, the argument was, you can’t free black people because it would be too expensive,” he said. “They said that it would be fiscally irresponsible for this country to liberate black people. And now you have detractors making the same argument of the Confederacy when it comes to public education in this system.”

Meanwhile, as a result of unions running the schools,

Only 25% of Chicago students are proficient in reading and only around 20% are proficient in math, according to data from Wirepoints.

Other than the Brandon Johnson campaign, where does all the money sucked up by the CTU go? No one knows, because it has not produced a public audit of its finances since 2020 — in violation of its bylaws.

Yet again we see that Brandon Johnson personifies the Democrat Death Spiral. A city that would elect him has no future.

On a tip from Varla.