Teachers Union Wants Democrats to Fight Republicans on Critical Race Theory

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New polling indicates that members of the American Federation of Teachers want Democrats to fight Republicans on issues like Critical Race Theory in education, which is odd considering that we’re constantly assured CRT isn’t taught in schools.Also, isn’t this article a direct admission that the teacher unions are totally in bed with the Democratic party? It sure looks that way.NBC News reports:

Teachers union wants Democrats to fight back against Republicans’ critical race theory attacksDemocrats should stop hiding and start fighting Republicans on hot-button education issues like battles over teaching racial issues in school, according to polling at the heart of a new push by the American Federation of Teachers ahead of the midterm elections.The survey, conducted by Hart Research in seven battleground states in May and provided first to NBC News, found Republicans had a 39% to 38% advantage on which party voters trust more on education.“We need to get out of our crouch here,” said Guy Molyneux, a pollster at the Democratic firm who worked on the survey.In recent years, Democrats — and their teacher-union allies — have found themselves on the defensive against Republican efforts to ban books and lessons on race and gender identity. School boards have been torn asunder over “critical race theory,” and conservatives have portrayed teachers and Democrats as child predators.

Let’s unpack that last part because there are some apparent falsehoods there.

First, if parents want sexually explicit books taken from their children’s school libraries, that hardly counts as banning books. In fact, it is progressives who have actually moved to ban books.

Second, if teachers don’t want to be accused of grooming kids on LGBT issues, maybe they should stop bragging about it publicly.

Now for the horrible news for teacher unions and Democrats.

John Sexton of Hot Air writes:

Poll of battleground states conducted for teacher’s union finds voters trust GOP more on educationThe American Federation of Teachers hired a democratic polling firm to ask questions of likely voters in seven battlegound states (AZ, FL, GA, MI, NV, PA, WI). The results can only be seen as terrible news for the union.

The survey, conducted by Hart Research in seven battleground states in May and provided first to NBC News, found Republicans had a 39% to 38% advantage on which party voters trust more on education…

Then there’s a question about what schools should be focused on. These are ranked in the order of the percent of respondents who included that particular answer in the top 3 things schools ought to be doing. Tops on the list at 58% is “Making sure students have strong fundamental skills in reading, math, and science.” The next three items are, simply put, life skills, critical thinking and college prep.

Teacher unions have followed their party down a woke ideological rabbit hole while millions of American parents are asking, what happened to reading, writing, and math?

Parents are also fine with teaching history, contrary to the ridiculous claims of these ideologues. Parents object to the twisting and rewriting of American history for political purposes in the form of Critical Race Theory and the 1619 Project.

If there is one good thing that came out of the pandemic, this might be it. Progressives in education have done more damage to their own cause over the last year than Republicans ever could.

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