The following report is by Fox News:
Parents are outraged after the National Education Association (NEA), a national teachers union, tweeted teachers “know better than anyone” what students need in the classroom.
President of Parents Defending Education Nicole Neily joined “Fox & Friends First” to discuss the “astonishing” claim after the top teachers union appeared to play clean-up after the polarizing post.
They know better than anybody how to spend money on Democratic candidates and undermine American education, but certainly not how to let children learn and thrive. So really an astonishing claim by them. Four Pinocchios.
Neily told co-host Todd Piro.
The NEA posted the controversial tweet over the weekend saying,
Educators love their students and know better than anyone what they need to learn and to thrive.
The union turned off replies to the tweet after thousands of responses poured in, appearing to begin clean-up efforts, as parents nationwide push for more influence in the classroom.
One of those responses was former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, who said, “You misspelled parents.”
The NEA fired back to DeVos’ response saying, “Together, families and educators are an essential team for the resources and opportunities all students need. Out-of-touch billionaires, however, are not.”
They are trying to gaslight the American people about their role in lockdowns, about the role in learning loss.
We have seen from those NAEP scores that came out recently, how American children fell off a cliff during COVID. And let’s be honest, achievement, proficiency in America was not good before that, despite the fact that the amount of money we have spent on American education has gone through the roof.
Families know best. Families should decide where their children go and how that money is spent, and the teachers unions need to be cut out of this process entirely.
Neily said
Most recently, teachers union have sparred with parents nationwide over COVID lockdowns after a national report card indicated massive decline in math and reading scores.
The NEA, along with the American Federation of Teachers, was caught up in controversial emails last year with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The correspondence, obtained by Americans for Public Trust, found that the nation’s two largest teachers unions appeared to influence last-minute changes to school reopening guidance and a slow walking of getting kids back to school.
They don’t care what we think because they have their own agenda, and I think the sooner the American people realize this union is not in it for us or our children, they’re in it for their money and their power, the better off we will be.
Neily said.
Fox News contributor Leo Terrell, who is a former teacher himself, also sounded off on the tweet, accusing the union of enacting a “political stunt.”
Teachers unions don’t teach. It’s the individual teacher who’s in that classroom who needs to make an assessment on every student. Guess how they get that assessment from parental involvement? They get information from the parent on the kid’s study habits, his learning skills, his work habits.
You can’t get that information from anywhere else except from the parent, and this is why what the teachers union said is nothing more than a political stunt. Teachers unions are in the back pocket of the Democratic Party.
Terrell said on “Fox & Friends” on Tuesday.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
1 Samuel 2:3
This type of arrogance from the NEA has existed for a very longtime, and has gone on uncontested even longer. As far as I can remember the mindset of so many of the teachers and administrative staff that I saw (not all) was that our parents were inferior to them, and our parents are idiots but they (the school staff) could be better ones; and what they say is gospel no matter what, even if the parents disagree. Only now in recent times have many of the hypocrite parents who never cared about their children are now starting to pipe up.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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A bunch of overeducated fools! I’ve seen that arrogancy many times especially since my mom is a retired education professor (she taught teachers how to teach) some of them not all of them had this superiority complex.
My mom’s former supervisor named Rosa was a Roman Catholic and she is a very evil woman! She’s not superintendent of the Catholic schools and she’s had complaints against her. I’ll guarantee ya this with total confidence: Rosa is going to stand at the great white throne Judgement and her education and scholastic accomplishments aren’t going to amount to a hill of beans and all the other high and might “educators” their destination is the lake of fire and their foo foo degrees aren’t going to mean Jack squat!
What a ludicrous statement that teachers know what is best for kids and that they will thrive under their tutelage. Is that why children these days live at home way into their 30s? Or commit suicide because the bullying some of them receive gets too intolerable? I know what these future teachers of America were like when I was in college decades ago and they acted like total imbeciles when they got together in the student lounge between classes. One, who was going to be an English teacher, complained heavily when her regular English class was “too hard”, which meant harder than the mickey-mouse education courses she took. The entire school knew that the education courses were Mickey-Mouse courses that any imbecile could pass. As a group, they were also vulgar and there was no indication that they took their studies seriously. To the point that I was concerned for any future child of mine getting near those yahoos. This was in the days when home schooling was unheard of. Remembering my own high school days, a few of the teachers were unnecessarily abusive to special needs kids (who were kept hidden back then), some were having affairs amongst each other (I found out later), and one was rumored to moonlight as a hooker at one of the motor inns in town, sometimes coming in to class reeking of cigarette smoke. So if was bad then, you would have to be really naive to think things have improved since then. The only thing going for us were that there were no school shootings back then. Nowhere. I did have a few elementary school teachers who I think had a genuine affection for their students, but they were most definitely in the minority. This does not include the nuns I had for 3 years before I went to public school. They are in a class by themselves, and mostly abusive to the boys.
so thankful I never had kids, so thankful to be a senior citizen !
I’m sorry.
we chose not to have kids; we chose to raise animals instead. and we love being a senior citizen, I would not want to be a young person in today’s world.
I understand Cary. I’m currently 33 years old and I desire to have a woman a female companion my age and I will accept her even if she’s a single mother which I would find flattering because I have a woman who is a mother and it will compel me to grow up more and better myself because she has babies whom I will love and respect like my own.
But yes, being a young person in this time period is treacherous!