NEA isn’t teaching – it’s training activists to brainwash children

The nation’s largest teachers’ union, which has an oversized influence in Alaska, has begun preparing America’s classrooms for a new era. It’s not a future of reading, writing, and mathematics, but of ideological militancy.

According to leaked materials from the National Education Association, the organization representing more than 3 million educators and school employees will host a four-day “Advancing LGBTQ+ Justice and Transgender Advocacy” training this December. The training is conditioning teachers to become political foot soldiers.

The materials, exposed by the parental-rights group Defending Education, paint a picture far removed from the NEA’s public messaging about “supportive school environments.” The union is offering a blueprint for how to transform classrooms into engines of progressive activism and how to push back against parents, legislators, and anyone else who dares question the agenda.

The NEA calls on teachers to “dismantle systems of privilege and oppression,” a phrase pulled straight from the Marxist graduate-school lexicon of DEI. Training participants are told they must “activate more expansive attitudes towards our genders,” use “genders” instead of “gender,” and introduce pronouns in every setting to “shift people towards our worldview.”

This is not education, but is instead social engineering aimed squarely at teachers, who are then expected to funnel this worldview directly to children, without parental consent and often in defiance of parental objections.

The materials openly instruct teachers to “name the villains who violate our values.” And who are the villains? According to the NEA, it’s Republicans, parents, and any group that challenges the union’s platform on gender identity, race, and school curriculum.

The union claims the political right uses an “arsenal of racist dog whistles” and “transphobic tropes” to “whip up fear” and “sabotage progressives.” It says Republicans have created “a moral panic” over the advancement of transgender ideology in schools. In other words, the parents who show up to school board meetings demanding transparency about lesson plans and gender policies are now classified as political enemies.

Instead of elevating the professionalism of teaching, the NEA offers a war-room playbook for combating parents.

The NEA tells its members they have a “right” to provide an “inclusive curriculum,” a euphemism for teachings that treat gender fluidity, unlimited pronoun identities, and race-based frameworks as unquestionable truths. The union even provides a sample “gender transition announcement email” for teachers to send out, normalizing the idea that children and teachers should announce new identities to the entire class.

The message is that classrooms are political staging areas.

And in case anyone misunderstands what role the NEA expects educators to play, the union gives explicit messaging advice: Shift people toward our worldview. Reframe criticisms of men competing in women’s sports by painting opponents as discriminatory. Connect Republican legislation to “long legacies of discrimination.” Turn every disagreement into a referendum on civil rights.

The NEA laments that “certain politicians are pushing laws that restrict our freedoms” and “exploit divisions and fears.” The irony is overwhelming. No institution in America has done more to fan the flames of division between parents and educators than the teachers’ unions themselves.

Parents are not ignorant. They are not bigots. They are the primary stakeholders in their children’s education, and their concerns about the rapid ideological capture of public schools are legitimate.

A union that once advocated for better pay, smaller class sizes, and safe classrooms is now hosting activist boot camps designed to turn educators into agents of cultural revolution.

What’s missing from this training?
– Strategies to improve reading comprehension.
– Tools to help students struggling in math.
– Plans to address chronic absenteeism.
– Methods to close the widening academic gaps exposed during COVID.

None of that appears to be on the syllabus. The NEA’s priority is not education. It’s indoctrination—and political warfare.

Parents are waking up. Voters are waking up. The more the NEA leans into its ideological crusade, the more Americans realize just how far the union has drifted from its core mission.

Public education is supposed to unite communities, not divide them into ideological factions.

If the NEA insists on turning teachers into political operatives, then parents and elected leaders have every right to push back and reclaim the classroom for its true purpose: educating children, not indoctrinating them.