Imagine part of your paycheck is removed each month and sent to a rich, powerful nonprofit that advances culture-changing causes in conflict with your values, such as anti-gun legislation, promoting racism, and teaching children to how to alter their gender.
That is the reality for many teachers union members.
Some Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA) members were troubled in 2021 when the union presented a 10-hour workshop, “Nice White Parents: A Look at How Parent Groups Have Systemically Impacted the Education System.”
A workshop flyer promised to discuss the “key driver blocking educational integration and equity: the actions of white families.”
PSEA flyer for a 2021 teacher education series.
PSEA is a 178,000-member union for Pennsylvania educators, administrators, higher education professionals, and pupil services professionals. It is affiliated with the National Education Association (NEA), which is the largest labor union in the United States, showing 2.9 million members in 2021. NEA membership has declined about 5 percent since 2017 when it had 3 million members….