This California teacher opposes teachers’ unions. Here’s why.

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.”

Nguyen hails from deep blue California, but across the nation, national, state and local unions alike have leftist ideologies – and one-sided pocketbooks.

They donate millions to Democrat politicians, use antisemitic rhetoric, promote abortion, and oppose innovative charter schools.

“I work hard to ensure students have a safe, positive, nurturing learning environment in which they learn how to develop social, emotional and academic skills,” Nguyen continued. “It is because I strongly believe in protecting students that I oppose what unions do.

“I choose to not support an organization that recently promoted a homework assignment encouraging students to declare independence from their parents, disrespecting the family unit and infringing on parents’ rights to direct their child’s upbringing. 

“I choose to keep politics out of the classroom by not giving the unions more power and money to levy their role in local and national elections by using union dues in the millions to fund left-wing candidates and issues.”  

Even if union politics swung the opposite way, Nguyen said she still wouldn’t support bringing activism into the classroom. 

“Even if the unions had ideals aligned with my own beliefs, I would still choose to keep my hard-earned money in my own pocketbook because a labor union is not a place for political activism,” she concluded.  

The Freedom Foundation has helped hundreds of thousands of educators like Nguyen leave their unions, reclaiming their hard-earned dues and rejecting the radical ideology rampaging through public schools.