$1.1 trillion in spending for the worst test scores.
National test scores are down to the lowest level since testing began and school spending has shot up, passing $1.1 trillion, while urban schools dole out such lavish benefits to teachers’ unions as six figure salaries, free Ozempic and abortions, and public school students suffer.‘Princess Moss’, the new president of the NEA, announced that the National Education Association, the largest teachers’ union, “can be and must be the most powerful force in America.”
Why make the NEA, which destroyed education for a generation of students during the COVID lockdowns, into the “most powerful force in America”? Is it to help the students? Obviously not.
Instead, the NEA may join a “National March on Washington D.C. to remove Trump before the November 2026 midterm election” at a cost of over $5 million. This is the same NEA, which keeps claiming that students don’t have enough school supplies, spending $5 million on a Democrat protest rally. But those six-figure salaries from failed school systems in Chicago and San Francisco have to go somewhere. And that ‘somewhere’ is radical political activism.
There’s also a push for demanding the impeachment of President Trump.
The NEA is potentially preparing for a general strike on May Day 2028 not because any local school demands haven’t been met. Indeed, the NEA doesn’t even know why it’s going to be calling for a nationwide strike in 2028 and will create a task force to decide in 2027 why it’s going to strike in 2028. The strike is already confirmed, it just needs to decide why it’s striking.
But as Princess Moss said, “We are not only educators, not only organizers. We are advocates.” Her majesty’s campaign platform focused on “resistance” and set out to “create a NEA where every member is an everyday organizer” so that every teacher is engaged in non-stop political activism. Teaching basic literacy is surplus to requirements which is why her platform also claims that “truth-telling forms a foundational tenant of my leadership approach.”
If you can spot what’s wrong, you’re more qualified to teach children than the head of the largest teachers’ union in America. Fortunately, the NEA needs teaching like a fish needs a bicycle.
Other NEA ‘new business’ include town halls to promote socialized medicine, transgender activism, open borders, racial reparations and anti-Israel activism including spending $86,000 to “publicize” its false accusations that Israel is committing ‘genocide’ in Lebanon by bombing the Islamic Hezbollah terrorists who are shooting rockets into Israel.
That last comes from Tania Kappner, an English and History ‘teacher’ at a virtual academy in Oakland, who ran for the NEA presidency and vice-presidency on a compelling educational platform of “Impeach and Remove Trump Now” and “Stop the War on Iran Now/Defend the Rights of the Palestinian People”. In Oakland, 66% of students did not meet state standards for English and 73% did not meet state standards for math. They must need even more politics.
But as Princess Moss snarled, “I’m sick and tired of people who drive by school, who have never been inside of school, telling us what to do with our kids. They don’t know anything about how to teach, or what our kids really need. We need to lean into our professional authority, and that’s something I want to build with the organization.”
The kids don’t belong to the NEA and for a group of people to have professional authority, they must demonstrate that they have some idea of what they’re doing and that they’re getting good results. Any other profession that produced the kind of outcomes that the NEA’s members do would lose all its customers, face lawsuits and government interventions.
The NEA was and is on the wrong side of every educational issue, from phonics to testing to school lockdowns, harming students while benefiting its members. The more student scores drop and assessments show that students are failing to meet basic standards in English and Math, the more the NEA tries to shut down testing while pushing political activism under the guise of promoting ‘critical thinking’ Actual critical thinking shows that a union demanding six figure salaries when students can’t read or add numbers together is not doing its job.
America is spending over $1 trillion a year and getting the test scores of a third world country.
Instead of teaching students, the NEA pushes politics into the classroom and then claims that ‘standardized tests’ are racist, that school rankings are irrelevant and that its members should be allowed to promote students regardless of performance, and that knowledge is an entirely subjective category to be left to the discretion of its members. That is how students in Baltimore and Los Angeles graduate from high school without being able to read. --->READ MORE HERE
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