The National Education Association (NEA) is the largest teachers’ union in the country.
Given the awful-bordering-on-disastrous performance of our public schools in recent years, that isn’t something to be especially proud of, but it is nonetheless true.
And now, in an effort to make itself look “woke” – while, in reality, diminishing itself still further – the NEA has decided that the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which fights anti-Semitism, should be dumped. Tossed out. Discarded.
Why? Because the ADL (gasp!!) supports Israel, that’s why.
From Taylor Penley’s article for Fox News:
America’s largest teachers union has severed ties with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) over its decades-long ties to Israel, prompting the civil rights group’s CEO Jonathan Greenblatt to fire back at the union he says has been “overtaken” by activists.
“These individuals are there to teach our children in the classroom the basics of reading and writing and arithmetic, not radicalism, but that’s exactly what’s happened,” Greenblatt said of the National Education Association (NEA) on “Fox & Friends” Wednesday.
The organization, whose leadership holds a history of supporting left-wing causes, voted to suspend its ties to the ADL over the war in Gaza, according to reporting from Axios.
The union will no longer use ADL-provided material regarding the Holocaust or antisemitism and will forego using or promoting any other ADL-affiliated material or programs.
The decision earned support from CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations), who applauded the decision for sparing students from “biased materials” rife with “anti-Palestinian rhetoric.”
It would be hard to overstate my disgust with this decision. But this is part and parcel of what the NEA has become; this is where it has descended.
All over the country, when charter schools are opened they are almost immediately oversubscribed. Parents are running, not walking, to rescue their children from public schools.
And it is the mindset of people like the “leadership” (if you can call it that) of the NEA, who make decisions like this, that are causing them to do so.
I despair for the education – or, more exactly, the lack of education – foisted on children who can’t escape schools stuck with the NEA.
