(Harbinger’s Daily)—Children belong to government-school teachers and teacher unions, argued a leading teachers union boss in explosive comments this week. Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) President Stacy Davis Gates also mocked those who expressed concerns about the ominous ideology that government is responsible for children, rather than God and their parents.
Speaking to a crowd during a speech at the City Club of Chicago, Gates referred to writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin. “Baldwin says the children are always ours. Every single one of them, all over the globe,” Davis Gates said. “And what comes next is ‘CTU thinks your children are its children.’ Yes, we do. We do. We do.”
Despite some apparent confusion in the wording, the message was clear. “’CTU thinks all children belong to it and they’re a socialist conspiracy ideology,’“ she continued, again mocking critics. “Well, I don’t know about all that, but we like children. We educate them, we nurture them, we protect them, we support them, we negotiate for them, we create space for them. We even have them in our homes.”
Longtime campaigner for children and teachers Rebecca Friedrichs, who won a historic victory against teachers’ unions at the U.S. Supreme Court, expressed shock at the comments. “Once again, a teacher union leader is totally out of touch with boots on the ground teachers and parents,” she told The Newman Report, responding to the scandal.
“Good teachers do not believe the children belong to the union, or the state, or even the community. Good teachers understand that children belong to their parents,” she continued. “And my belief, as a former longtime public-school teacher, is that children are gifts from God. They belong to God, and God entrusts them to their parents.”
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