> Returning to culture-wars territory, the claim that “our public schools are full of … teachers who abuse their positions of trust to engage in political activ

> Returning to culture-wars territory, the claim that “our public schools are full of … teachers who abuse their positions of trust to engage in political activism and political indoctrination,” as Kevin Williamson wrote earlier this year in the National Review, strikes me as an insulting exaggeration. the National Education Association (NEA), the largest teacher's union and largest union in the US, holds explicit left-biased activist stances and officially advocates for social justice agendas - https://www.nea.org/advocating-for-change/racial-social-justice https://www.nea.org/advocating-for-change/racial-social-just... Ontario teachers' union implements controversial weighted voting system to increase minority representation. The new system will ensure that Indigenous, Black and racialized teachers always represent 50 per cent of the votes at the bargaining unit - https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/ontario-teachers-union-implements-controversial-weighted-voting-system-to-increase-minority-representation https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/ontario-teachers-union-... California Community College Promises to Pre-Screen Job Applicants to Ensure They Are ‘Anti-racist’ - https://www.yaf.org/news/california-college-adopts-anti-racist-screening-of-all-job-applicants-calls-for-safe-spaces/ https://www.yaf.org/news/california-college-adopts-anti-raci... Minneapolis teachers union contract calls for layoffs of white teachers first - https://alphanews.org/minneapolis-teachers-union-contract-calls-for-layoffs-of-white-teachers-first/ https://alphanews.org/minneapolis-teachers-union-contract-ca... (Or as NPR more delicately put it: "The new contract has a clause designed to protect teachers of color from seniority-based layoffs." - https://www.npr.org/2022/09/02/1120798679/a-new-minneapolis-teachers-contract-is-the-center-of-a-debate-over-diversity https://www.npr.org/2022/09/02/1120798679/a-new-minneapolis-...) > An especially corrosive feature of these bills is how they erode trust in public education itself. As I hope the above sources make clear, public educators are eroding trust perfectly well on their own.