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    Teachers Union Leader Caught Saying Fighting Trump More Important than Teaching Reading, Writing

    By Will TannerJuly 17, 2025
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    According to a not necessarily surprising but still absolutely infuriating report out of a teachers’ union conference, it was revealed that one of the delegates to the convention, a leader amongst the teachers’ union members, was caught declaring that teachers should focus much more on pushing anti-Trump rhetoric than teaching students how to read and write.

    The conference at hand was the 2025 National Education Association conference, the annual meeting of the teachers’ union with over 3 million members, known for its contentious nature. The union is notoriously difficult to deal with, given its strong advocacy for even underperforming teachers, and is often perceived as being overly woke.

    In one of the latest incidents showing the group’s noxious ideology, a delegate from the red state of Texas exposed that the National Education Association’s “new business items” are primarily political and the members of the teachers’ union generally would prefer to fight President Trump than teach their students.

    Such is what The Free Press, a centrist and independent media operation, reported. According to the outlet, the Texan delegate to the convention said she had a friend who, at the convention, was trying to discuss the best ways to teach “reading and writing” to students. The friend was reportedly told, “We don’t have time for that. We’ve got to fight Trump.”

    Further, The Free Press reported that, during the convention, the NEA’s president, a former middle-school teacher named Becky Pringle, declared that the union should and would be using its power to “liberate” students, whatever that means. She said, “We must use our power to take action that leads, action that liberates, action that lasts.”



    Additionally, many of the action items related not to effective teaching but instead to push wokeness on students. For example, the convention delegates voted to appropriate thousands of dollars to “defend democracy against Trump’s embrace of fascism by using the term facism [sic] in NEA materials to correctly characterize Donald Trump’s program and actions.”

    Yet worse, the group’s delegates voted to support protests, declaring that the NEA would “Support for and participation in the mass democratic movement against Trump’s authoritarianism and violations of human rights.” The group clarified that its support for popular protests against Trump includes the LA riots, saying, “the Los Angeles-based movement to defeat Trump’s attempts to use federal forces against the state of California and other states and communities.”

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    Also the group claimed that ICE is engaged in the “kidnapping of student leaders” and that it would thus engage in support for “students’ right to organize against ICE raids and deportations.” Further explaining that, it said that it would protect the rights of the students to “dissent and organize against Trump’s policies, including attacks against LGBTQ+ students, and against racism.”

    And, snapping at another particular Trump policy, the group declared that it would remain implacably opposed to the Trump Administration’s efforts “to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education,” declaring that move to be “an illegal, anti-democratic, and racist attempt to destroy public education and privatize it in the interests of the billionaires.”





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