New Jersey Teachers Union Drops Ad Labelling Parents ‘Extremists’; Republicans React – By John Rigolizzo (Daily Wire) / Aug 17, 2022
New Jersey’s statewide teachers union has begun airing a jarring ad depicting concerned parents as “extremists.”
The New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) released the advertisement Monday. In the ad, which as one Twitter user pointed out is currently airing, parents concerned about curriculum materials in classrooms are labeled as “extremists” attacking New Jersey schools to score political points. Republicans in the state reacted fiercely to the ad, slamming the union for demonizing parents.
“We don’t agree on everything in New Jersey,” a narrator begins the 15-second ad. It opens with pictures captioned “Pork Roll” and “Taylor Ham,” a reference to a popular cultural debate among New Jerseyans. “But we all agree that our kids deserve a world-class education. So when extremists start attacking our schools, that’s not who we are.”
At this point, the ad shows black-and-white photos of parents protesting at school board meetings, with two news headlines: an article from NJ.com entitled “Some NJ schools under siege,” about parents attempting to remove books with explicit sexual and LGBTQ content from school curricula; and another from Patch.com entitled “Don’t Say Gay’ Bill Introduced By NJ State Senator,” about a parents’ rights bill introduced in the state legislature in May. “People who only want to fight to score political points should take that somewhere else,” the ad concludes.
