Life Matters - July 30, 2025

The National Education Association (NEA) has approximately 3 million members, according to the NEA. This includes educators at all levels, from pre-K through university, as well as support professionals, retirees, and student members preparing to teach. The NEA is the largest professional employee organization in the United States. ‘’With more members like you” they say, “National Education Association educators will have an even stronger voice to improve our daily lives and the lives of our students.’’ Our being the key word here. 

The average NEA employee earns approximately $131,646 per year with leadership positions earning much more. Specifically, the NEA President earns a salary of around $358,186, plus benefits, while the Executive Director earns $337,412. Other top earners include the Vice-President and Secretary-Treasurer with salaries around $314,877 and $314,882 respectively. The NEA President’s salary is about 8.5 times more than the average teacher’s salary, according to Americans for Fair Treatment. So, when Becky says ‘our’ just follow the money. 

Being the largest teacher’s union, actually, the largest of any union in the United States of America, the NEA, with its 3 million members and 4,400 employees (approx.) carries a lot of clout. But, since it does not certify nor pay teachers, from whence comes its clout? Following the money helps in answering the question. 

I suppose every teacher appreciates the pay increases union lobbyists lobby for in Congress. But there’s more, as the sheer member numbers brings with it a pressure to not be different, even when wrong happens and becomes promoted, otherwise known in Biblical terms as the fear of man. (which includes woman) Members paying their dues bring in 100s of millions to NEA coffers every year, with which the NEA claims to be doing a lot of good. From a Biblical viewpoint, however, most of it is not good. 

While membership remains voluntary, those who opt out of membership and therefore do not pay dues, are often shamed and made to feel left out. Sometimes they lose their jobs, depending on how NEA dogmatic the teacher’s union is in the State in which they work. Awareness of the pressure the NEA can, and does, bring to bear on teachers, promotes a culture of fear. So, with a promise of (if for the most part elusive) prosperity, or else of shame, of fear, with 3 million members on the hook for 100s of millions of dues to pay annually, the NEA does indeed have clout. It carries a big stick.  

“We cannot fear…the future! Diversity! Equity! Inclusion! Say the words! Say the words! Say you are powerful! You are the NEA! Hold your head high! Hold your head high! Oh…Freedom! Oh…Freedom!” When NEA President Becky Pringle hollered—screamed—those words in a speech given at the 2025 NEA convention in July she was screaming in open defiance against President Trump’s executive order to do away with DEI curriculum in the public schools of America. But her screaming was more than defiance against the Trump administration. Her screaming words are an open and defiant rebellion against God and His Word, as her promotion of the Pride flag and all it stands for testifies against her. Though she says; “I don’t go around waving a Pride flag” she certainly does boldly and abrasively promote and push what it stands for. 

As Siena Cysewski reports on July 9, 2025, Pringle has called the Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling on Mahmoud v. Taylor ‘’shameful’’ suggesting justices have ‘’discredited and ignored the expertise of trained educational professionals, and harmed students in the process.”

Siena responds, ‘’Given that the material that parents would be opting their children out of participating in was centered heavily around homosexuality and transgenderism, including books that promoted Pride parades and same-sex playground romances, what ‘’experts’’ is the NEA president referring to in her protest? 

That is a good question. To which the answer can be found in Romans chapter one. Calling such people ‘’expert educational professionals’’ is an attempt at deception when God’s judgement refers to such as ‘’fools.’’ 

The NEA can only be reasonably understood when one accepts that they are the political arm of public education, being lobbyists, promoters, and donors to left-leaning and far-left political causes and candidates. Education is merely the sheep’s clothing the devil is using to push his dark, nihilistic agenda. President Trump is right, they and their ‘Siamese twin’ the AFT, must go. A new tree must be planted. The present rot goes too deep for salvaging the system.  

My educated guess is that many, if not most, teachers agree. 

Life Matters!