{"id":6362,"date":"2021-06-21T18:00:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T01:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=6362"},"modified":"2021-06-21T18:00:31","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T01:00:31","slug":"teacher-opens-up-on-the-true-agenda-of-the-california-teachers-union-and-the-wokeness-within","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=6362","title":{"rendered":"Teacher Opens Up On the True Agenda of the California Teachers Union and the Wokeness Within"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Will Hekman<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> She first became alarmed by the agenda of the union at a conference in 2015, \u201cI thought, wow, my union does not seem to care that much about academics as much as they do the political side of things\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Lebsack attended the Equity &amp; 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, \u201cYou should treat that student as though he said black people should be burned at the stake.\u201d Lebsack said she could not believe what she had heard.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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\u2019s LGBTQ+ caucus co-chair, about Bramble\u2019s answer and if Miller agreed with it. \u201cWithout hesitation, he agreed,\u201d Lebsack says. \u201cTo me, it was just a wake-up call.\u201d But the agenda goes even deeper than just the lobbyists, but a massive program called the Multi-Tiered System of Supports.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sausd.us\/Page\/45380\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Multi-Tiered System of Supports<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 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+. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/brenda4kids.com\/index.php\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brenda4Kids<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which provides education to students without the radical agenda being pushed by the union. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6363,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.5 - 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