Today in Labor History February 22, 2004: Education Secretary Rod Paige called the nation’s largest teachers union, the National Education Association (NEA), a terrorist organization. Meanwhile, the Bush administration was imprisoning citizens and non-citizens indefinitely without trial for being “terrorists” and implementing a massive surveillance program that continues to this day.
Time for us to live up to the moniker:
*Say "Gay" in the classroom
*Refuse to report your trans, nonbinary and GNC students
*Maintain a secret library of banned books
*Teach evolution
*Teach the scientific consensus that neither sex, nor gender, are binary
*Teach about the history of Palestinian oppression & the ongoing Genocide in Gaza
*Teach a people's and a working-class history
*Teach the history of marginalized and oppressed people
*Teach about U.S. imperialism and its myriad war crimes