There was a time — and it wasn’t that long ago — when parents dropped their kids off at school confident that the adults inside were focused on reading, writing, and arithmetic. The classroom was a serious place. Teachers earned respect because they did serious work. That basic compact between families and public schools held this country together for generations.

Something has gone sideways. Badly. The people running America’s public education system aren’t losing sleep over plummeting test scores or kids who can’t read at grade level. They’re busy playing politics — and not the subtle kind. The organization that claims to speak for every public school teacher in America just published its agenda for the world to see. Spoiler: your grandkids didn’t make the list.

From the Daily Wire:

The nation’s largest teachers union — which is also the largest labor union in the United States — has unveiled a wish list of new business items so far Left that even some of its own members might raise an eyebrow, including a formal push to oust President Donald Trump before the midterms, taxpayer-funded “reparations” initiatives, and a plan to hand out cards instructing members how to stonewall ICE agents.

Item 10 on the wish list, backed by 50 delegates out of California, calls on the National Education Association to demand Trump’s “impeachment, conviction, and removal” from office and to organize a mass march on Washington to force him out before November’s midterms.

Read that again. The National Education Association — three million members strong — wants to blow $5.2 million on a campaign to oust a democratically elected president. Not improve classroom outcomes. Not recruit better teachers. Remove Donald Trump. And the union openly admits this money isn’t even in its current budget. They’d have to find it somewhere. Presumably not from the reading comprehension fund.

It gets wilder. The NEA also wants to drop nearly $219,000 printing multilingual “Red Cards” that teach educators and students’ families how to stonewall ICE agents at the schoolhouse door. So a taxpayer-adjacent institution is now officially in the business of coaching people to obstruct federal law enforcement. Wonderful.

From the classroom to the war room

The full wish list reads like it was drafted at a faculty lounge open mic night after one too many glasses of pinot grigio. “Educational Reparations” to wipe out student loan debt and blow up property-tax-based school funding. A $222,000 initiative defending teachers who shoehorn “genocide in Palestine” lessons into their classrooms. A dedicated task force — their words — to organize a “May Day 2028 General Strike.”

Oh, and one item demands the NEA publicize its opposition to a fund it describes as financing an “American Gestapo.” These are educators. Supposedly.

Gender ideology gets heavy play too. The union wants to rewrite family emergency planning guides to include transgender legal name changes and “affirming healthcare.” It’s pushing state-by-state “legal risk” maps for transgender individuals and a “Trans Youth in Sports Conversation Guide.” Meanwhile, American kids are ranking behind dozens of countries in math and science. Priorities.

The combined price tag on all of this? North of $6 million in pure political activism.

These people have your children

Here’s the part that should make every parent and grandparent’s blood run cold. The NEA isn’t some fringe activist group shouting from the sidewalk. These are the people standing at the front of your grandchild’s classroom five days a week. And their leadership couldn’t care less whether those students can pass a basic reading test — they’re too busy building a political empire.

Even rank-and-file teachers see the absurdity. As one observer pointed out, actual educators want the union focused on “wages, benefits, working conditions, curriculum support, and classroom issues.” Instead, union bosses are cosplaying as revolutionaries while the kids they’re supposed to serve fall further behind.

The case for walking away

The NEA has done something remarkable here. It has made the single most persuasive argument imaginable for school choice — and it didn’t even mean to. When the nation’s largest education union burns millions on impeachment crusades, ICE obstruction kits, and gender ideology pamphlets while student achievement craters, the conversation shifts. This isn’t about reform anymore.

It’s about whether this organization deserves to exist at all. Parents didn’t hand over their children to fund a radical political action committee masquerading as a teachers’ union. The exit door is school choice — and the NEA just gave every family in America a reason to walk through it.

Key Takeaways

• The NEA plans to spend $5.2 million on removing President Trump — not improving education.
• Union proposals include ICE obstruction materials, reparations schemes, and gender ideology guides.
• Over $6 million targets political activism while student achievement continues declining.
• School choice remains the clearest answer when the institution itself has gone rogue.

Sources: Source, BizPac Review