Peggy Nguyen has been a teacher for almost 30 years, but she doesn’t support teachers’ unions.
“I recently heard someone say that if you’re against the teachers’ union then you must be against kids,” Nguyen, a transitional kindergarten teacher, wrote in an op-ed for The Freedom Foundation. “The claim is based on the reasoning that, if unions are pro-teachers and teachers are pro kids, unions must therefore be pro-kids.”
But Nguyen said the radical activities of unions do more harm than good to both students and teachers.
“[Teachers’ unions are] using their platform and money to advance a radically liberal political agenda that is not representative of all their members,” she wrote. “I choose to deny any more power to unions to advance their political influence rather than improving working conditions for public school teachers. I choose to not support an organization that has a woke and radical agenda.”
