In a now deleted post on X, the head of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), Randi Weingarten, commented “This seems important to state.” She was referring to a post that said, “The right winger who didn’t want Charlie Kirk to speak did what right wingers do and shot him.” While this claim appears to be definitively false, it did not stop the high-profile teachers’ union head from promoting the fiction to her 100,000 plus followers.
But Weingarten has not been the only one peddling falsehoods, lies, or divisive comments online. Professors and teachers from across the country have flocked to social media since September 10th, not just to publicly declare their disdain for the conservative activist, but to publicly revel in his assassination.
One Canadian teacher went so far as to play the video of Charlie being shot over and over again to his 10 and 11-year-old students and tell them that the assassination was “deserved.”
As egregious and appalling as it is, this vitriol did not just manifest overnight. In fact, it is a feature, not a bug of radical far-left ideologies having been slowly ingrained into the American education system over decades.
Even more concerning is the increase in normalization of anti-fascist rhetoric and dogma, and support for the radical militant group Antifa by teachers and education leaders. But how did so many teachers come to share this morally depraved, radical position?
Look no further than the two major teachers unions.
For example, in 2024, the AFT’s Randi Weingarten gave an “unhinged” keynote speech at that year’s convention stating that “voting is still our best defense against tyranny and fascism.” She went on to claim that President Donald Trump was an “existential threat to democracy.”
Weingarten recently released a book titled Why Fascists Fear Teachers and joined Emerge America, a leftwing political training organization for women, on Sept. 16 for an event titled “Teachers Against Fascists.”
Not to be outdone by its counterpart the National Education Association (NEA)—the largest teachers union in the nation—which passed a resolution last summer stating that it “pledges to defend democracy against Trump’s embrace of fascism by using the term fascism] in NEA materials to correctly characterize Donald Trump’s program and actions.”
Unfortunately, far-left, anti- “fascist” mindsets and pedagogies are being pushed by colleges of education and professors on future and current teachers.
In 2024, an Evergreen State College (WA) education professor wrote for Columbia University’s Teachers College Press a post titled “Fascism Is Happening and Bursting Democracy’s Dam - Here’s What Teachers Can Do.” The professor’s lengthy screed compares conservatives, including groups like Moms For Liberty, to early 20th Century European fascists. He concludes his piece by calling on teachers to use his “Teaching Anti-Fascism” conceptual framework and stating that “Only collective social justice action will stop democracy’s dam from bursting and flooding fascism into our schools.”
But these leftist orthodoxies do not stop at the university classroom door. Anti-fascism activism and support for Antifa is also pervasive inside K-12 schools.
For example, a 2021 undercover video revealed a Natomas Unified School District (CA) teacher proudly displaying an Antifa flag inside their classroom and proclaiming he had “180 days to turn them into revolutionaries.”
In July of 2025, Seattle Public Schools moved to start the firing process for a teacher and alleged Antifa militant radical who publicly justified the murder of Israelis by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023.
If we do not eradicate this, it won’t take long for “anti-fascist” to be considered a best practice in education, just as being “anti-racist” was popularized following the summer of 2020.
This current trend of peddling anti-fascist ideologies and practices is a deeply concerning issue for parents and the public writ large. Education is a high-trust profession that involves direct, relational engagement with other people’s children daily. If teachers are bold enough to publicly celebrate the murder of an individual, what are they willing to say in the classroom?
How can a society be expected to trust teachers and education leaders who hide behind “free speech,” while publicly celebrating the murder of someone with whom they had deep disagreements?
This feels like a betrayal.
Parents, community members, and government officials need to bring to an immediate end to the advancement of “anti-fascism” into schools.
It is morally reprehensible that these institutions are using a captive audience of school-aged children to further their violent and revolutionary worldview.
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