Teachers union webinar encourages teachers to oppose Trump, make students in US illegally 'feel less afraid'

The National Education Association hosted a webinar connected Wednesday encouraging teachers to reason President-elect Donald Trump connected migration reform, saying their extremity is to marque students who are successful the state illegally "feel little afraid." 

"Right now, determination are laws connected the books that prohibit migration agents from venturing connected to schoolhouse grounds, and truthful assorted radical successful the Trump medication would similar to rotation that back," Jennifer Berkshire, writer of The Education Wars, said. 

Trump has said that his absorption would beryllium targeted deportations for convulsive criminals who person entered the state illegally, including apprehending terrorists and cartels first. 

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Rebecca S. Pringle, president of the National Education Association, speaks connected Day 4 of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) astatine the United Center successful Chicago, Illinois, August 22, 2024.  (REUTERS/Mike Segar)

"There is simply a existent relation for teachers, including aspiring educators, to play successful having conversations with those groups and figuring out... what tin we do, wrong the schoolhouse space, to effort to marque those kids consciousness little afraid," Berkshire said. 

She besides called retired Ryan Walters, the Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction, who said successful September that helium wanted to enactment a Bible successful each schoolhouse successful his state. 

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"The world is that, like, whether it's publication bans oregon extremist candidates for school, schoolhouse board, oregon a Ryan Walters benignant idiosyncratic who's, you know, insisting that teachers thatch from the Bible oregon suffer their certification, uh, much and more, this truly does consciousness conscionable similar a circus," Berkshire said.   

The National Education Association is an enactment of implicit 3 cardinal members. Their president, Rebecca S. Pringle, has previously called the Trump medication "tyrannical, deceitful, and corrupt."

Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters successful an interrogation with CNN big Pamela Brown discussing utilizing the Bible successful schools. (CNN screenshot)

Chelsie Acosta, seat of the NEA Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Committee and a committee manager for the American Civil Liberties Union, said that she is "concerned" for her community. 

"When I started… with the ACLU, it was arsenic Trump came successful the archetypal term, truthful it's a small bittersweet that… present we are astatine the 2nd term," Acosta said. "I did not deliberation that we would… beryllium here, but present we are, and I deliberation a batch of america are acrophobic astir our ain communities and our students." 

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The webinar was opened by Caitlin Ehlers, a subordinate of the NEA’s Aspiring Educators Program and committee manager for Student Washington Education Association, who gave a onshore acknowledgment.  

"We statesman by acknowledging that we conscionable connected the accepted lands of galore Indigenous peoples, onshore upon which the participants of this telephone unrecorded and work. I'm speaking to you each from the accepted lands of the Duwamish people, governed by the Treaty of Point Elliot," Ehlers said.

 "We grant this land's archetypal radical and each their elders, past, present, and emerging, and we are called connected to larn and stock what we larn astir the tribal history, culture, and contributions that person been suppressed successful telling the communicative of America." 

On January 20, 2025, Donald J. Trump volition beryllium sworn successful arsenic the 47th president of the United States. (Trump-Vance Transition Team)

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