California Teachers Association’s ‘Curriculum’ of Shame

Commentary The California Teachers Association just made clear—again—it does not give a fig about your child’s education. Indoctrination? Oh yeah. Education? Nahhhh. At its recent “solidarity conference” at the swanky Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles, the union’s leaders paraded a list of presentations that mirrors last summer’s “new business items” at the National Education Association’s (NEA) big national convention in Florida. In both cases, attendees were treated to ideological training but almost nothing that had anything to do with student achievement. Many of those attending probably had no need for such steerage as they were already soulmates of the racist, class-warfare, and anti-American features of the presentations....