Abolish Teachers’ Unions

There is something deeply wrong with our public education system. 

Many things, actually, but one thing we can do right now that would make fixing the schools infinitely easier is to abolish the teachers’ unions. Doing so wouldn’t only make reforming public education easier, but it would also begin the process of separating education from indoctrination, making schools safer and more responsive to parental concerns; it would also remove one of the main pillars of support for the worst elements of the left and the Democratic Party. 

Becky Pringle is the president of the largest teacher’s union in America. She’s mocked by other countries for her unhinged, screeching behavior.
It’s embarrassing. https://t.co/GJKSqfNkpt pic.twitter.com/kUYEhT4K15

— Tiffanie Tx (@tiffanie_tx) June 9, 2025

The two big teachers’ unions are run by truly awful people whose only goal is the promotion of left-wing ideology. They provide the ground troops for the Democrats, and are legally allowed to use state and local resources for political purposes. I worked for a candidate once who was a public school teacher, and he was bombarded by emails explaining why he should be defeated–using the public school email system. 

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— Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist (@DeAngelisCorey) June 9, 2025

It is impossible to overstate the overlap between the increasing power of the teachers’ unions and the devolution of our schools into indoctrination centers that don’t teach children to read, write, and do math but instead focus on alphabet ideology, critical race theory, and ruin the mental health of our children. 

The left is planning to “rise up” all across the country on June 14th.

They call it “a nationwide day of defiance.”

Randi Weingarten is behind it. pic.twitter.com/qHKAYItnHj

— Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist (@DeAngelisCorey) June 9, 2025

Who worked with the Centers for Disease Control to ensure that children were kept out of school during COVID? The teachers’ unions. 

Who said “kids are resilient” and wouldn’t be harmed by being kept out of school? The teachers’ unions. 

The teachers’ unions have been proponents of pushing “Social and Emotional Learning” into the schools, which is another term for teaching kids to be as antiresilient as possible. As the popularity of SEL has exploded in the schools, youth mental health has plummeted. Suicides, suicidal ideation, diagnoses of severe mental illness, depression, and anxiety have all skyrocketed. 

The teachers’ unions did that. 

This is what happened after Randi Weingarten “protected” kids during covid. They’re better off without her help IMO. https://t.co/Nuni7ymzMX pic.twitter.com/3yLKWV4Mjn

— Jean (@queens_parents) March 21, 2025

Teachers unions lobby for every cause other than improving the education of our children. Sure, they want more money to flow to the schools, but every time we increase the funding–the US spends more on public education than any country in the world other than one–child performance and mental health take another step back. 

This illegal, heavy-handed, and unnecessary crackdown on peaceful protesters is a trumped-up excuse to manufacture a spectacle and stoke further tensions.https://t.co/GCrPU8zTcY pic.twitter.com/GCuVeaSgY0

— Randi Weingarten 🇺🇸💪🏿👩‍🎓🟣🇺🇦 (@rweingarten) June 9, 2025

The unions protect every bad teacher, and work assiduously to ensure that pay for performance is inhibited as much as possible. Bad teachers are protected–good luck firing a teacher, even if they harm students or go to school drunk. 

For those who don’t think unions have too much power, here is an active union contract in Michigan.

Teachers can be drunk at school five times before they are fired. They can be high three times before losing their job. And they can MAKE AND SELL DRUGS and keep their job. pic.twitter.com/kXNOZkZvze

— Mackinac Center (@MackinacCenter) January 24, 2025

The premise behind the unions is especially bizarre–the necessity for them apparently stems from the belief that the teachers need to have an adversarial relationship with…the citizens, who pay their salary and hire them to teach children. You may have noticed that most of the lobbying and political activism of the unions has nothing to do with improving education–they don’t care. The “No Kings” rally Randi Weingarten is funding has nothing to do with education at all–it is political action directed at Donald Trump and Republicans. 

2020 to 2021 – A compilation of footage of teachers’ union leader Randi Weingarten calling for COVID school closures. Weingarten was one of the most influential voices behind school closures, though she would later claim she boldly opposed them. 45/pic.twitter.com/UcWjfmqpno

— Michael P Senger (@michaelpsenger) May 19, 2023

Is there another organization that can compete with the NEA or the American Federation of Teachers for the title of most destructive in the country? 

I can’t think of one. 

Obviously, the expansion of school choice is an important response to the decline in our public education system, but it is only one tool. Until we destroy the unions that basically run our education system in this country, reforming the public schools will be impossible. 

So lets ban the unions.