And I mean to tell you they REALLY hateses them, with a Gollum-like passion.
The National Education Association (NEA) is the largest union - not just teachers' union - in the country. They're run by this delightful lady, Ms Becky Pringle, seen here exhorting her convention goers in 2024 to 'win ALLLLL the things.'
ALLLL THE THINGSSSSSS, MY PRECIOUSSSSS
W😳W…what are all these things Becky Pringle thinks them, the NEA must win…and why is she yelling about it like a lunatic? 🫨pic.twitter.com/hwVbXDAE0g
— Shaughn_A (@Shaughn_A2) July 10, 2024
She's as tightly wrapped as Gollum. And appears to be as sane.
NEA President Becky Pringle having a normal one. pic.twitter.com/l4ZzruNiwh
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) April 5, 2025
Not to mention, just as friendly to normal people who happen to be parents or, God forbid, Trump voters, especially if they lack pigment.
The National Education Association handbook says "educators must acknowledge the existence of white supremacy culture as a primary root cause of institutional racism, structural racism, and white privilege."
— Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist (@DeAngelisCorey) July 25, 2025
"Educators must also work to prohibit institutionally racist systems" pic.twitter.com/DyQL72e6Cy
On the upside, the current administration is finally on our side. I don't believe there will be any collaboration between the FBI, Pam Bondi's Justice Department, and the Pringles and Weingartens of the incestuous internal educational sphere in order to suppress parents and those interested parties who police education in this country as there was in the previous regime. The Trump Department of Education, besides winding down and going softly into that good night - a terrifying prospect to those who are so deeply invested in the indoctrination of a captive class of children - is focused on purifying the sclerotic social virtue rituals surrounding public education and returning it to the business of learning as efficiently as possible.
This flies directly in the face of some leaked NEA training documents that have come to the attention of a group called Defending Education.
It turns out the NEA in all its might has decided a stealth battle should be waged against parents and the Trump administration at the classroom level, as they cannot win at the district or in the public sphere. So they have developed a training syllabus for their members to follow to actively carry the fight into the classroom and take it to the children.
🚨 New documents obtained by @DefendingEd reveal the NEA is preparing its 3-million-member network to lean into partisan activism even as two-thirds of students can’t read at grade level.
— Nicki Neily (@nickineily) November 20, 2025
The internal materials outline an “Advancing LGBTQ+ Justice” program set for Dec. 2–4. pic.twitter.com/1CFeeb0Yhl
Not teaching children, you understand - they have more important things to do, like resist the Trumpers and parents who want answers.
Republicans are, of course, the bogeymen in all of this, with every appropriate 'ism' attached.
The National Education Association (NEA) is training teachers to advance gender and racial ideology in classrooms, and to fight Republicans and parent groups who ‘harm us all’ by trying to stop that agenda, according to leaked materials for an upcoming training event.
Participant handouts for the NEA’s “Advancing LGBTQ+ Justice and Transgender Advocacy” training accuse the right of using an “arsenal of racist dog whistles” and “transphobic tropes” to “whip up fear” and cause harm, parental advocacy group Defending Education (ED) discovered. The materials coach teachers on how to indoctrinate children into progressive dogmas, including gender ideology and pronoun use, among other woke principles.
The workshop is scheduled for Dec. 2-6 and is meant to dismantle “systems of privilege and oppression as it relates to LGBTQ+ educators and students” and “deepen skills and strategies to confront implicit bias, micro-aggressions and stereotypes.”
“The right has exploited ignorance about transgender people and our lack of an affirmative, race-forward message to advance anti-trans attacks, further splinter and impugn the left, and sabotage progressives on a broad range of issues,” NEA said in the materials. “Over the last ten years, Republicans in state legislatures have increasingly turned to anti-transgender rhetoric and legislation as a powerful complement to their arsenal of racist dog whistles used to whip up fear and consolidate power.”
NEA went on to say Republicans have ignited “a moral panic over transgender youth” and mobilized the GOP base with “a potent mix of racist and transphobic tropes.”
Yup. That might be the sort of 'training' little Johnny or Susie's teacher is taking a paid day off from school to soak up.
The NEA spends less than 10% of its massive budget (in 2023, it had a budget of $399M and an endowment of $408M) on teachers, but some 50% on political contributions, causes...
And funnel over $200m in dues into left-wing political PACs and leftist nonprofits. https://t.co/9XR0Cs61Ny pic.twitter.com/zVROQkwrfX
— Rhyen Staley (@RhyenStaley) November 21, 2025
...and activities...like suing parents.
The NEA (National Education Assocation) is another shadow government group that is literally suing parents for making information requests. They are also completely funded by the taxpayer.
— State Leadership Initiative (@RedStatesLead) November 21, 2025
More below 👇 https://t.co/E4Uk71clLv pic.twitter.com/swDyNSNdtd
Bazillions of dollars and all that thunderous noise, but kids can't read. They can't do third-grade math problems.
Trump's dynamite Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, called them out today when she read the materials.
All week, @NEAToday has falsely accused us of not caring about our students' success.
— Secretary Linda McMahon (@EDSecMcMahon) November 21, 2025
But while 70% of 4th and 8th graders can't read proficiently, the NEA plans to host trainings on "Advancing LGBTQ+ Justice" & "Advancing Racial Justice through Union Work."
Enough said.
And parents are in the way of so much of the agenda that teachers have to be trained how to work under the radar to transition their children.
...The literature dives into the "debate" about men in girls' sports, lamenting the fact that "our opposition wins the debate on trans youth in sports against any and all arguments we have tried for our side."
"Our base and persuadables want to support transgender student athletes, but are extremely susceptible to our opposition’s argument that excluding trans youth is necessary to protect the fairness of women’s sports," the NEA explained.
The literature then goes into deep detail on several steps to more effectively communicate the benefits of biological men playing in girls' sports, including the instruction, "reduce the potency of opposition attacks through race-forward, deep, story-based, and culturally specific public education on who transgender people are."
The "pre-work" document also featured the "Gender Unicorn," which Fox News Digital has extensively reported on as a popular tool for transgender activists to promote and break down the idea there are more than two genders. The document includes a coloring book for individuals to mark where they fit on the gender spectrum.
The literature spends two pages explaining the importance of addressing others with the proper gender pronouns and says, "Over the last few years, the transgender community has asked allies to help normalize offering pronouns during introductions, in education, and the workplace to indicate an understanding of trans identities and show that they are a safe person.
"As gender identity and gender expression do not always align, offering pronouns is a way to create a space where people do not need to rely on assumptions of others’ gender."
Such nice people, no?
...“[I]nstead of striving for equality in sports, certain politicians are distracting us from the real issue by blaming transgender women, instead of helping make sports a better place for all women,” the suggested talking point reads.
No.
They don't need to be anywhere near children.
Parents should be asking school boards about these two 'training days' and who the teachers are who have participated.
I'd sure want to know which side my kid's teachers were on.
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