Thirty years ago, when asked to define the purpose of public education, the president of America’s second-largest teachers’ union answered: “Public schools were created for the purpose of teaching immigrant children reading, writing, and arithmetic and what it means to be an American.”
Today’s teachers’ unions have taken a 180-degree turn to the left.
Last year, the National Education Association formally rejected a resolution to “re-dedicate itself to the pursuit of increased student learning in every public school in America.” But it adopted a resolution to incorporate the concept of “white fragility” into their professional development, in an effort to dismantle “white supremacy culture,” which the White Fragility educator guide defines as essentially synonymous with American civilization—i.e., “the overarching political, economic, and social system of domination that describes the culture we live in.”
Read Full Article »