Fairfax County’s teachers unions fail students

At Fairfax County’s school board meeting last week, Leslie Houston, the Fairfax Education Association president, was clear that teachers unions want parents out of the picture. During her testimony, she advised the district’s school board to “champion public education … Disregard your skeptics … Continue leveraging our expertise.”

“Expertise” is an interesting word for Houston to have used. Her union supported prolonged school closures and pushed for the forced masking of students and, ironically, the denial of medical freedom via vaccine mandates for all Fairfax County Public Schools employees. Houston and other teachers union activists are “experts” at advocating for their own power at the expense of America’s children, but not much else.