Teacher’s fake-marriage uproar hid another scandal— in-school lefty brainwashing
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Teacher’s fake-marriage uproar hid another scandal— in-school lefty brainwashing
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When California teacher Laura Pinho used a Zoom educators’ webinar to publicly proclaim that she’d married a Gazan man to give him US citizenship, she set off a national uproar.
The New York Post reported on the incident — first caught by the North American Values Institute — and Pinho is now under federal investigation for potential marriage fraud.
But Pinho’s nuptials weren’t the most scandalous part of the educators’ four-part confab.
It’s the official program of the series that should really alarm parents.
Pinho was one participant in a webinar called “Challenging Zionism in Schools,” run by the far-left CodePink.
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The presentation was filled with teachers, union officials and education activists — none of whom expressed shock about what Pinho described, or concern that she’d crossed an ethical line.
Instead, they spent hours discussing how educators could bring anti-Israel activism into public school classrooms — with the way paved by vaguely worded state education standards and Social-Emotional Learning requirements.
The series featured speakers from the California Teachers Association, United Teachers Los Angeles and the Massachusetts........
