Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters, perhaps America’s most prominent critic of teachers unions, has now become the CEO of the newly formed Teacher Freedom Alliance, an organization boasting that it has already guided more than 20,000 teachers in abandoning their unions. He claims teachers unions have "turned into political machines, more interested in power than in kids" and have “poisoned our schools with politics and propaganda while abandoning parents, students, and good teachers.”

Walters' organization bombards unionized public school teachers with emails and physical mailers urging us to abandon our unions, telling us we can save money on union dues, which Walters condemns as "forced donations to causes and politicians you don't believe in."

I have been a classroom teacher and a member of teachers unions for two decades, and I believe what I pay in dues is some of the........

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