Life Matters - July 23, 2025
The National Education Association’s (NEA) annual convention, held from June 29th to July 6th 2025, in Portland Oregon, included New Business Items that were leaked to Corey A. DeAngelis, senior fellow at the American Culture Project, who shared several of those delegate approved items in the public domain.
New Business Item 60, which was approved by NEA delegate members, declared that; ‘’The NEA pledges to defend democracy against Trump’s embrace of fascism by using the term fascism in NEA materials to correctly characterize Donald Trump’s program and actions.’’ Let me pause and remind us that to call something fascism does not make it fascism. And that ‘defending democracy,’ to left thinkers such as NEA’s Becky Pringle, has come to include tax-payer funded abortions, normalizing LGBTQ+ whatever else ideas, outlaws and scofflaws smuggling scofflaws and minors across U.S. borders etc. ‘’In an ironic twist,” DeAngelis noted, “the original NEA resolution misspelled fascism as facism.’’ Not only is that ironic, it is also symbolic of what the NEA has become in public education—an Association more concerned with saving its own face than in education excellence.
Becky Pringle, the present face and president of the NEA, has become a scofflaw in her own right, both covertly and overtly attempting to undermine the U.S. President’s ability to do what he committed to with the American people, to dismantle the teachers’ unions that have veered so far off course that their face has become representative of practically every anti-God and His Word lawless practice being normalized to America’s public school students, the NEA leading the charge.
The NEA is in a battle to keep itself open for business as usual, beginning with its stated support for the U.S. Department of Education (ED for Education Department) against the President’s stated commitment to its closure. Although there remains no hierarchical connection between the two unions and reason dictates that the NEA chafes against the President-appointed Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, the stakes are high for the NEA’s existence. If the ED goes, then the responsibility for education goes back to the states and to the parents of those states, and, together with President Trump’s stated intent to promote school choice for parents, would eventually nullify the ‘need’ for an NEA, effectively bringing about an end to its prestige, its power, and its very existence as a relevant organization.
While the NEA claims to represent America’s public school teachers, in practice it does little more than set its humanistic ground rules for teachers who may or may not agree. While the NEA does not license nor certify teachers they do have influence upon those who do so. The claim that the NEA has covert power over teachers is a subject of debate. However, their statement of mission and accomplishments tell the story. In ‘Union and Educator Voice’ under the caption of; “Together we are heard” they give us this short-list of accomplishments; “Our members have successfully raised educator wages, (by lobbying in congress) improved working conditions, supported student loan forgiveness, and made sure the voices of educators are heard. The National Education Association is the largest labor union in the country. When we unite and speak truth to power, we can have enormous impact. That’s why our nearly three million members join together to create a future where schools are funded, educators are supported, and students are thriving. Together we’re stronger. Together we’re heard.”
While teacher membership in the NEA remains optional, those who choose not to join can be subjected to the ire of those who view them as traitors to ‘the cause.’ Just shy of two years ago, on August 16, 2023, upon publishing an NEA expose Life Matters column in two local newspapers, I received this uplifting and enlightening note sent by a dear neighbor from across the back field; ‘’Today in church (a lovely pastor’s wife and mother – name redacted) mentioned your column. She was glad that you wrote the truth about the NEA. Her mother is a teacher and has never joined the NEA and has been criticized for this. I hope you are not attacked for the truths you have been writing about!’’
The federal Department of Education has approximately 4400 employees and runs about 268 billion (yes, that’s with a B) dollars through its budget per year as of 2024. I haven’t researched where all that dough goes, but I’m guessing it goes nicely baked with gravy on top. “Where’s the money going” is a good question. “Where is the immoral junk being railroaded in from” is another. The ED and the NEA are two separate unions, but in morals they are united as though they were Siamese twins. One’s agenda is about as immoral as the other until one wonders “which way does this current flow?”
The NEA has been around much longer (founded in 1857) than the federal ED, begun in 1979. Given that Samuel Blumenfeld’s book, NEA: Trojan Horse of American Education, was first printed in 1984, the finger of averages and history point to the NEA with a steady “the rot starts here.” Our courageous President, Donald J. Trump, should receive the hearty support of all who care about America, for appointing Education Secretary Linda McMahon and giving her a charge to shut down both education unions, returning education to the states. Jesus continues to say it this way; ‘’Either make the tree good, and his fruit good, or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt, for the tree is known by its fruit.’’ (Matthew 12:33)
Prepare the hearts of all Americans, dear God. The only sustainable way forward is to start at the roots. With a good tree.
Life Matters!