NEA teachers union member was told fighting Trump more crucial than reading and writing: Report

A teachers' union member was reportedly communicated that fighting against President Donald Trump was more crucial than teaching reading and writing at this year's annual National Teaching Association meeting According to the Free Press a convention delegate from Texas summarized the National Coaching Association s new business items as having more political motives O ne convention delegate from Texas summarized them by telling me the response that a friend of hers got while trying to talk to other union members about the best techniques to teach reading and writing the Free Press shared We don t have time for that We ve got to fight Trump her friend was communicated SOCIAL MEDIA ERUPTS AFTER NATION'S LARGEST TEACHERS' UNION MISSPELLS 'FASCISM' IN ANTI-TRUMP AGENDA ITEMWhen the Free Press urged the NEA for comment the union directed them toward a number of previous statements including the convention speech by Becky Pringle a former middle-school educator who is now the NEA president stating We must use our power to take action that leads action that liberates action that lasts The National Development Association did not directly respond to Fox News Digital s request for comment The National Instruction Association held their annual Representative Assembly meeting from July rd to July th TEACHERS UNION REVEALS TRUE COLORS BEHIND CLOSED DOORS AT ANNUAL CONVENTIONThe business items the teachers union approved include defending democracy against Trump s embrace of fascism by using the term facism sic in NEA materials to correctly characterize Donald Trump s activity and actions and opposing Immigration and Customs Enforcement's kidnapping of participant leaders and endorsement for students right to organize against ICE raids and deportations Another item was to patronage the nationwide No Kings protests in participation of the mass democratic movement against Trump s authoritarianism and violations of human rights In January the National Training Association distributed guidelines to help schools prepare for immigration government after Trump rescinded the law that prohibited Immigration and Customs Enforcement from entering sensitive areas such as schools and hospitals Pringle has invariably been vocal in her criticism of the Trump administration and previously disavowed Trump's immigration crackdown and endorsed former Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris in the poll The Free Press record also claimed that union members who questioned about standing up for Jewish teachers received an unfriendly response at the meeting The person from Texas who was at this year s meeting recounted The Free Press the focus was politics sex and gender When delegates get up on stage they tell you that they re political the delegate described The Free Press These things did not just happen overnight People just haven't been paying attention