When the current school year began last fall, the Hilliard (Ohio) Education Association partnered with the National Education Association (NEA) LGBTQ caucus and encouraged the district’s educators to indoctrinate even its youngest students with completely inappropriate sex and gender lessons.
Teachers were urged to wear a badge outfitted with a QR code that young people could scan on a whim and start a conversation they hadn’t even had with their parents yet about gender identity and sexual orientation.
To the surprise of no one but the participating teachers, parents were outraged.
For its part, of course, the union obviously anticipated blowback or it wouldn’t have undertaken such a scheme without bothering to notify parents.
Lest we forget, the teacher’s unions are well organized and fully prepared to carry out their agenda no matter what parents think.
And they have an almost limitless supply of their teachers’ dues money to make it happen.
Teachers’ unions were originally intended to advocate for higher wages, improved working conditions and better benefits. For this reason, teachers willingly surrendered around 2 percent of their wages seeing it as an investment in themselves.
Union bosses see things very differently.
As far as they’re concerned, the money is theirs to do with as they like — including funneling it to their pet candidates and radical causes to fund a whole spectrum of liberal ideas having nothing whatsoever to do with workplace representation.
Exposing the motives of the teachers’ union, in the modern era, is a major function of the Freedom Foundation, and we dutifully provided Ohio’s educators and parents the insight they deserved regarding the grotesque actions of the Hilliard Education Association.
Our outreach on this issue went viral and demonstrated that teachers and parents alike care that children are being exposed to inappropriate and highly sexualized content at school. More than 3,500 Ohioans were prompted by our outreach efforts to research and explore what innocent young minds are being exposed to via the NEA grassroots efforts across Ohio.
Parents who entrust their children to their schools every day, and teachers who deeply care about children — which is a vast majority for both categories — are understandably upset and angry.
Thankfully, teachers are increasingly refusing to fund these activities with their own hard-earned money. According to federal reports, membership in the Ohio Education Association has been on a substantial decline since 2018.
Radical activists in the classroom and at the highest ranks of the teachers’ unions believe they are the ultimate influencers. Parents and responsible teachers are fighting back and having an even greater, far more positive impact.
We at the Freedom Foundation will gladly, and always, provide a lifeline for these concerned parents and educators. You can count on us to stand by you.
