National Education Association: Educators “Know Better than Anyone” What Students Need to Learn
Over the weekend, the National Education Association (NEA), a labor union representing all public school teachers, tweeted, “educators love their students and know better than anyone what they need to learn and thrive.”
Twitter users responded in a variety of ways, but most were understandably outraged by the assertion that teachers “know best” for students, not their own parents.
Parents know their children from birth, they are present for every meaningful moment, and care for them more than anyone in the world possibly could. When something goes wrong, a parent will be there for their child, not their teacher. It is unbelievably offensive to assume that an educator, who spends a limited amount of time with each student, (presumably teaching them, not getting to know them on a deeply personal and intimate level) “knows better” than parents.
Parents around the country have filed into previously empty district school board meetings to express their frustration because of what has been allowed in classrooms. Age-inappropriate discussions between teachers and students and unapproved drag performances, coupled with mask mandates and falling grades, is reason enough to believe that the “educators” have been completely failing in their roles.
Multiple times, parents have been shouted down by school board members who claimed that the parent was being inappropriate, when they simply read aloud the sort of books available in public school libraries for children, many of which contain sexually explicit material.
Despite this, liberals dubbed parents hoping to remove inappropriate content from public libraries “book burners” and the NEA continued to encourage schools to keep their libraries full — regardless of the contents of course.
Public schools have clearly prioritized a liberal agenda over educating students, as evidenced by consistently falling test scores in all subjects, across multiple age groups.
The most recent National Report Card, a scoring system used to provide reading and mathematics grade averages for public schools around the country, shows that grades have fallen significantly since 2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Even though remote learning brought issues hidden in public schooling to light by enabling parents to view what their children were being taught, and what they weren’t, most students were negatively impacted by school closures. Additionally, many parents were put in incredibly difficult positions, having to take off work or find care for young children.
Children suffered from lower grades and poor mental development, especially at young ages. Even worse, lockdowns and school closures caused mental illness to become a prevalent issue throughout the younger generations.
A new study from Harmony Health IT reveals that 68% of Generation Z “feel the pandemic has negatively affected their mental health.” In 2020 and 2021, teachers pretended that a return to in-person classes meant a certain death sentence, and mainstream media kept a death toll up for months on end, it is no surprise that this lead to feelings of helplessness and depression among younger individuals. The study also found that 1 in 4 Gen Z’ers were diagnosed with a mental health condition during the pandemic.
All of this points to one overall point: it is more clear than ever that teachers, education unions, and school boards do not know what is best for children, or even what is good for them. Parents on the other hand, only have the best interests of their children at heart, which is exactly why conservative parents are taking a stand to completely dismantle the established public school norms which have proved to be a waste of time and taxpayer dollars in recent years.
