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Massachusetts Teachers Association President: We Need Safe Spaces!

   DailyWire.com

Barbara Madeloni, the President of the Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA), wrote an email to union members on Tuesday calling for safe spaces in Massachusetts public schools following Donald Trump’s election. The email called upon teachers to “organize standouts across the state next Tuesday, November 22, to let students and parents know that love trumps hate, that we welcome all students and their families, and that we will provide places of safety in our classrooms, schools and colleges.”

In addition, Madeloni encouraged teachers and professors to institute safe spaces across academic buildings, saying it is “a time to push past rules and bureaucracies that limit our ability to show and live our compassion.” Madeloni suggests that these safe spaces would create a positive atmosphere of empathy and support.

Madeloni’s email cited University of Massachusetts, Amherst as an example of a place where safe spaces exist. UMass Amherst is also where Milo Yiannapoulos, Steven Crowder, and Christina Hoff Sommers famously triggered several leftist students for daring to present differing viewpoints. Following this event, a student wrote a scathing email to the administration demanding that the school “discipline and monitor” UMass Republicans for allowing the event to happen.

The Massachusetts Teachers Association claims in its mission statement that it is “a member-driven organization, governed by democratic principles, that accepts and supports the interdependence of professionals and unionism.” The MTA fought heavily to defeat Question 2 of the Massachusetts ballot this year, which would have lifted the cap on charter schools to give Massachusetts families more choices for their children’s education.

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