McMillan Middle School’s seventh and eighth-grade Academic Pentathlon teams for scoring highest among all states in their region and continuing a 10-year tradition of national representation at the United States Academic Pentathlon.McMillan Middle School for earning second place at the Nebraska Science Olympiad.Schools are becoming indoctrination factories, trying to turn children against their country and their own parents’ values.
They’re like yours when they’re in the classroom.” It’s what the teachers unions intend.Īmazingly, that’s just fine with President Joe Biden, who told a gathering of teachers and union bigwigs last week that kids are “yours when they’re in the classroom.” That wasn’t one of those Biden stumbles.
But parents have a right to know what their children are being taught and to set limits. State legislators in at least 12 states have introduced bills requiring educators to post teaching materials, including books and videos, on a Web site for parents to inspect before their kids see them. Good teachers will have no problem with that. But ideologically driven teachers, as well as the unions, are fighting back. That includes Randi Weingarten, head of the American Federation of Teachers. As she launched Teacher Appreciation Week - and most teachers do deserve our appreciation - Weingarten smeared classroom-transparency requests as the work of “political extremists.”Ĭoncerned parents are not political extremists, but Biden is joining the attack against transparency, parroting the unions. He and most Democrats in Congress are teachers-union flunkies. Democrats delivered hundreds of billions in COVID relief to school districts, reportedly including $46 billion to teach critical race theory - with $9 billion for CRT in New York schools.īiden also kowtowed to the unions to prolong school closings and masking and then allowed the unions to dictate what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would require to reopen schools. Randi Weingarten, head of the American Federation of Teachers, claimed that calls for classroom transparency are attacks from “political extremists.” Photo by Alex Wong/Getty ImagesĪs a candidate, Biden vowed to end federal support for charter schools, and his new regulations have that obvious goal, another obsequious gesture to the unions. Weingarten and National Education Association chief Rebecca Pringle probably have more power in the Biden administration than any senator or cabinet member. That would be fine if they were wielding their clout to ensure children acquire strong reading and math skills. The AFT Web site shows the union is more committed to political activism than reading and science, technology, engineering and math instruction. The site urges visitors to “take action” on student debt, voting rights and passing the Equality Act. It never mentions that fewer than half New York City’s third to eighth graders can read at grade level.