Teachers’ Unions Are Cults

We have known for decades that the teachers’ unions are a cancer eating away at our education system. They have successfully lobbied for dramatic increases in education spending at the same time that our public schools have been delivering worse and worse educational results. 

They use public money and time that should be devoted to students to elect Democrats–using your money against you–and have created a system where drunkards, sexual predators, and even drug dealers cannot be fired without years of legal battles. 

And, of course, it was the unions who worked mightily to keep the schools closed as children spiraled into mental health crises and lost years of educational achievement. Large fractions of our school kids are functionally illiterate, and many are so bad at math that they cannot make change at a cash register. 

Thank God for credit cards, I guess. 

But until recently, they have at least tried to appear sane when speaking in public. No longer. They have gone so far off the rails that they speak like street preachers predicting the apocalypse. 

This isn’t an obscure cult leader, this is Becky Pringle president of the National Education Association.
DEI radical leftists infiltrated & are indoctrinating Americas youth into CRT & Woke ideology☣️, churning out generations of Lazy Trans-Marxist Losers.

Wake Up Parents!! pic.twitter.com/1FQ1KpJUra

— Doug’s Journey ✞📖🇺🇸 Ⅹ (@DsJ0URNEY) July 16, 2025

By now, everybody knows who Randi Weingarten is. She is the President of the American Federation of Teachers, who for years was also a member of the Democratic National Committee. She was allowed to write under the guise of the Centers for Disease Control, the guidelines for reopening schools–hint: she didn’t want to, and demanded and got almost $100 billion to allow it to happen–and then went on TV to explain that “kids are resilient” and schools were unnecessary. 

Huh? Give us money, but schools aren’t really essential for students until we say so. 

But it’s Becky Pringle who actually runs the largest teachers’ union in the country, and she, if anything, is more unhinged. 

I thought Randi Weingarten was awful. This lunatic is even worse, with a larger reach to ruin public education.
Check out the level of buzzwords and BS in the NEA’s writeup about her. I need a shower. https://t.co/eNikEQVUVH https://t.co/NIZ7BS5PJJ

— Dave Wilburn Golden Age Supporter! (@Burnman11) July 7, 2025

She, too, is a power broker in the Democratic Party and is as crazy as a loon. Both Weingarten and Pringle were major figures at the Democratic National Convention, and you may recall Pringles’ inspiring speech:

NEA Becky Pringle: “We have to win all the things!” Best ad for homeschooling yet. pic.twitter.com/RhUVkL2F34

— Must Read Alaska (@MustReadAlaska) July 8, 2024

The unions have become cultish, left-wing advocates of alphabet ideology, Critical Race Theory, abortion, illegal immigration, and the destruction of America. 

Randi Weingarten having a totally normal one at No Kings Philadelphia pic.twitter.com/B89SJNvzrJ

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) June 14, 2025

Ordinary Americans are slowly, way too slowly, waking up to the fact that there is something deeply wrong with our education system, but they have yet to realize that the ultimate problem lies with the current generation of teachers. Not all teachers are bad, of course, but on average, they are radicals, even communists, whose #1 priority is spreading Queer ideology, not teaching kids to read, write, and do arithmetic. 

I used to think teachers’ unions were bad because they followed the Al Shanker model–Al was President of the AFT back in the day. Shanker once admitted that he would start caring about students when they started paying union dues–an admission that the unions were all about pay and benefits, not education. 

Randi Weingarten poses with drag queens at an lgbtq pride event and discusses the importance of pride

Another ad for homeschooling. pic.twitter.com/HZqCWuNvdT

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 13, 2025

But I long for those days now. At least that was understandable. Unions are about their members, after all. 

But now? They are radical organizations that see their jobs as destroying the United States because we are a white supremacist settler-colonialist culture built on the oppression of Queers and illegal immigrants. 

This is the way @RepMarkHarrisNC @MarshaBlackburn 🇺🇲 pic.twitter.com/Wbvm3vqCg6

— Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist (@DeAngelisCorey) July 15, 2025

Teachers’ unions were always a bad idea. All public employee unions are. Their premise is that public employees are adversaries to the public they are supposed to serve. That is why, even as a pro-labor president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt strongly opposed the idea that public employees should unionize as “unthinkable and intolerable.” 

He even chastised federal employees in a letter to the Federation of Federal Employees:

All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service. It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management. The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with Government employee organizations. The employer is the whole people, who speak by means of laws enacted by their representatives in Congress. Accordingly, administrative officials and employees alike are governed and guided, and in many instances restricted, by laws which establish policies, procedures, or rules in personnel matters.

Particularly, I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place in the functions of any organization of Government employees. Upon employees in the Federal service rests the obligation to serve the whole people, whose interests and welfare require orderliness and continuity in the conduct of Government activities. This obligation is paramount. Since their own services have to do with the functioning of the Government, a strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to prevent or obstruct the operations of Government until their demands are satisfied. 

Roosevelt could not imagine how far off the rails the current unions are.