Written by Will Hekman
California teacher Brenda Lebsack says she began to see the true side of the California Teachers Union at multiple conferences between 2015 and 2017, and she is breaking her silence on the true agenda, which was focusing on issues such as LGBTQ issues, social justice, and sexual education rather than focus on student issues and education.
Lebsack had been a teacher since 1987 but only recently became active in the union. She taught multiple grade levels and subjects and is currently a physical education teacher for special education students across the Santa Ana School Unified School District, about 35 miles outside of Los Angeles.
She first became alarmed by the agenda of the union at a conference in 2015, “I thought, wow, my union does not seem to care that much about academics as much as they do the political side of things”.
Lebsack attended the Equity & Human Rights Conference in Torrance, California in March 2016 and spoke with union lobbyist Seth Bramble. She asked Bramble how to respond to a Mormon student who believed in traditional marriage. Bramble responded with, “You should treat that student as though he said black people should be burned at the stake.” Lebsack said she could not believe what she had heard.
While Lebsack at the time did not believe that Bramble did not represent the union, she attended the LGBTQ+ Conference in San Jose in 2017. There she asked Scott Miller, the union’s LGBTQ+ caucus co-chair, about Bramble’s answer and if Miller agreed with it. “Without hesitation, he agreed,” Lebsack says. “To me, it was just a wake-up call.” But the agenda goes even deeper than just the lobbyists, but a massive program called the Multi-Tiered System of Supports.
The Multi-Tiered System of Supports brings in outside agencies and groups such as Planned Parenthood to offer resources and instructions to students in the Santa Ana district. The district also partners with The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ+ suicide prevention group that primarily works with young people who identify as LGBTQ+.
Lebsack says that because of the growing wokeness and hateful agenda pushed by the union, she is no longer an advocate for public education and is also a supporter of school choice. Lebsack also founded her own website, Brenda4Kids, which provides education to students without the radical agenda being pushed by the union.
