<p>The National Education Association’s (NEA) <a href="https://www.nea.org/professional-excellence/conferences-events/annual-meeting-and-representative-assembly">annual conference</a> is underway, and the teachers union is voting on calling for a national policy of mandatory masking, creating an enemies list, and rejecting the words &#8220;mother&#8221; and &#8220;father.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Chicago conference is chock-full of woke agenda items and progressive language involving issues that would seem to have little to do with the proper education of the nation&#8217;s children. The unabashedly leftist organization doesn&#8217;t even seem to recognize its own heterosexual male membership, at least according to one measure in circulation.</p>
<p>&#8220;NEA is a social justice union that is a majority female and trans and gender non-confirming folx,&#8221; one New Business Initiative (NBI) says, calling to &#8220;publicly stand in defense of abortion&#8221; and calling abortion limits an attack on &#8220;students, families, and communities.&#8221;</p>
<p>Another calls for &#8220;a national policy of mandatory masking and COVID vaccines in schools, as well as high-quality virtual education for immuno-compromised students and all families who want it.&#8221;</p>
<p>A third says the NEA will publicize its commitment to &#8220;young people&#8217;s right to learn about and develop their own sexual orientation and gender identity.&#8221;</p>
<p>A fourth promotes language that is &#8220;LGBTQIA+ inclusive,&#8221; including using &#8220;birthing parent&#8221; and &#8220;non-birthing parent&#8221; instead of mother and father.</p>
<p>One initiative calls for spending $140,000 on opposition research about the &#8220;largest 25 organizations that are actively working to diminish a students&#8217; [sic] right to honesty in education, freedom of sexual identify [sic], and teacher autonomy.&#8221;</p>
<p>NBIs are proposals that must be voted on by delegates in order to pass. NEA has previously been radical in what it passes. In 2019, it voted down a motion to &#8220;rededicate itself to the pursuit of increased student learning.&#8221; It voted in favor, meanwhile, of &#8220;discussions around support for reparations&#8221; and incorporating &#8220;the concept of &#8216;White Fragility&#8217; into NEA trainings.&#8221;</p>
<p>Each year&#8217;s NBIs had previously been public on the NEA&#8217;s website, it but abruptly yanked last year&#8217;s offline after parents noticed that it has voted to approve a resolution to “oppose attempts to ban critical race theory” and to provide a study that “critiques . . . capitalism . . . and other forms of power and oppression.” That contradicted teachers&#8217; claim that CRT is not taught in schools.</p>
<p>This year&#8217;s NBIs were uncovered by Terry Stoops, a conservative education expert in North Carolina.</p>
<p>https://twitter.com/TerryStoops/status/1544325118037565441</p>
<p>The NEA did not return a request for comment on why the NBIs are no longer public, and on the results of any voting.</p>
<p>The NEA has previously <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100823105309/http://www.nea.org/tools/17231.htm">promoted</a> Saul Alinsky&#8217;s &#8220;Rules for Radicals,&#8221; highlighting his passage &#8220;If you have a vast organization, parade it before the enemy, openly show your power.&#8221;</p>
<p>The NEA is the largest labor group in the U.S., with more than three million members, including first lady Jill Biden. Its president is Becky Pringle.</p>
<p>As test scores have plummeted following teachers-union-demanded school shutdowns, the NEA urges placing less emphasis on test results that measure whether students are learning. An NEA &#8220;Policy Playbook&#8221; released just before the 2020 election says that &#8220;the over-emphasis on standardized testing has caused considerable collateral damage,&#8221; and focuses instead on &#8220;racial and social justice.&#8221;</p>

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