Texans will be shocked to learn that their local American Federation of Teachers affiliate wants them to have more religious freedom in schools.
According to the “Educator’s Bill of Rights” currently being shilled by the Texas AFT,
“Our public schools ought to be safe spaces for every Texas child, regardless of their race, socioeconomic background, gender identity, or religious upbringing. Increasingly, state leaders are blurring the lines between church and state, and that includes inside our public school classrooms. Whether it’s through a voucher push that would funnel taxpayer dollars to religious private schools or new state-created curriculum that’s chock full of biblical material, we are enduring an unprecedented, big-money assault on religious freedom in Texas. Our educators are being put in the unconscionable position of choosing whether to violate their students’ constitutional rights or violate the state’s mandates to force religious instruction upon them.”
The duplicity here is almost cartoonish. The AFT is very worried about your religious freedom, but what that actually means in “We’re going to fight school choice.”
If it weren’t so brazenly evil, the AFT’s make-believe about teachers groaning in mental anguish at “violating” the Constitutional rights of students would be amusing. You don’t get to use the word “unconscionable” when you promote sexual literature for children, and oppose prohibiting boys who identify as trans from entering girls’ bathrooms and locker rooms.
As always, none of this is about education. It is about unelected, unaccountable teacher unions working to impose their radical ideologies on parents. The unions demand the final say in where every child attends school, what they learn, and expect the system to pay them for it.