In the wake of a rise in teacher firings (for celebrating a public execution), the Massachusetts Teachers Association is demanding that districts and colleges defend their educators.
“The ongoing campaign by extreme-right conservatives to discredit and defund public education has grotesquely exploited the shooting death of Charlie Kirk to launch attacks against people commenting on this public figure’s beliefs and statements,” MTA President Max Page and Vice President Deb McCarthy said in a joint statement.
I think there are plenty of examples where the individual in question crossed a line, but not that line, but Page and McCarthy aren’t being very equitable. These are precisely the sorts of tactics unions and the left use against anyone who won’t toe their line. Mob rule is their thing, yet when the public is outraged about something that affects them, it’s unjust, unfair, and grotesque exploitation.
Hmmm.
The Massachusetts Teachers Association supported the vaccine mandate for educators and students during the response to COVID.
The Massachusetts Teachers Association announced today that it is in favor of requiring COVID-19 vaccinations for all employees and eligible students in public schools and colleges throughout the state. The MTA Board of Directors voted to adopt the position during an emergency meeting Monday evening.
Masking, distancing, all of it. No exceptions I could find, effectively abrogating bodily autonomy and parental rights.
The Massachusetts Teachers Association not only defended the “response” to George Floyd’s overdose death, but they also promoted Black Lives Matter at School Movement.
Each year, educators across the country participate in a week of action, held in February, to promote racial equity and counter racism and xenophobia in our schools. Educators wear Black Lives Matter T-shirts to school and teach lessons such as structural racism, intersectional Black identities, Black history and anti-racist movements. Inspired by the Black Lives at School Day organized by educators in Seattle, a group of teachers in Philadelphia took the concept a step further, sponsoring a whole week of events around the guiding principles of Black Lives Matter.
Black Lives Matter at School is centered around these demands:
- End “zero tolerance” and implement restorative justice in all schools.
- Hire & retain more Black teachers in our schools.
- Mandate Black history & ethnic studies in preK-12 schools.
None of these things helps black students learn to read, do math, self-learn, or acquire other useful skills unless blindly agitating for progressive power is considered useful, which history has shown is not useful, especially to the black community.
It’s why they’ve started voting Republican in larger numbers.
And while I’ve heard no stories specific to Massachusetts, there are reports of schools rejecting requests to organize TPUSA chapters.
I feel confident the MTA would drop its free speech facade and invest itself in efforts to prevent any such chapters from forming at schools in Massachusetts.
The Massachusetts Teachers Association is, after all, a progressive political action organization before all else, so pick an issue and you’ll be able to guess where they stand. As for teachers, if they are not with the union, do not expect the union to defend them. This is about union power, not anyone’s rights.
