Mark Levin, America’s top conservative media voice, is pledging to fight the nation’s liberal teachers unions and their efforts to force the teaching of critical race theory in local schools.
“We need to take our classrooms back,” he said in an interview about his latest book, American Marxism.
A day after American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten said the union is preparing lawsuits to further the theory and has a legal defense fund “ready to go” for teachers, Levin said he is expanding his effort to encourage local parents to take charge of what their children are learning.
He dismissed the union blueprint to nationalize the teaching of critical race theory and other liberal initiatives to reframe U.S. history.
“Who the hell do these people think they work for? We’ve got to get back to basics. Every one of their members is on our payroll. Every one of these school buildings we pay for. Every one of these administrators, whether they’re superintendents, assistant superintendents, principals, assistant principals, they’re our employees,” Levin told Secrets.
“It is time we go on offense, it is time we fix this. These people work for us,” he added.
His new book debuts Monday and has led the Amazon bestseller charts for weeks.
Levin has become a leading voice opposing CRT. His latest effort is larger, aimed at opening up all of what is being taught to children in public schools.
One idea he has picked up on is putting public cameras in schools, or even teacher body cameras, for parents to watch, an idea first offered up in the American Thinker.
He said that the proposal shouldn’t be controversial since most schools and teachers for the past year have been conducting classes via Zoom, giving parents a chance to look in.
Referring to a year of Zoom classes, he said, “There should be cameras in every classroom because we don’t know what’s going on with these classrooms. And we just spent a year, parents did with this virtual education where you can actually see what teachers are teaching your children and this is how CRT and these other things drew attention.”
Imagine if teachers unions actually cared about children rather than use taxpayer dollars to fund Far Left activism.
— Rep Andy Biggs (@RepAndyBiggsAZ) July 7, 2021
He added, “From my perspective, what they’ve done is they’ve opened up a whole new area for we the people to begin to assert ourselves and demand accountability and transparency. This is what I mean: stop playing defense and let’s go at it.”
With the likelihood that unions will fight back, Levin said parents should push back.
“Mark my words: Our union will defend any member who gets in trouble for teaching honest history,” said AFT President @rweingarten in her #TEACH21 opening. https://t.co/6q5ooLyGCm
— AFT (@AFTunion) July 7, 2021
“These government schools are called ‘public schools,’ but the public has no say. So the public ought to be able to see what’s going on in these classrooms. Now this is an idea I started to promote, it’s one of the things I’m going to push,” said Levin, who has a grassroots army of millions of readers, national radio listeners, and TV viewers.
He also said that parents should be made aware of what is in teacher contracts and their teaching plans.
“We need to know what exactly is in these contracts with these teacher unions. We need to know how teachers are hired. We need to know what their training is. We need to know it all,” he said.
