{"id":1615328,"date":"2022-08-18T18:05:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T22:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1615328"},"modified":"2022-08-18T18:05:04","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T22:05:04","slug":"new-jersey-teachers-union-labels-concerned-parents-extremists-in-new-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-jersey-teachers-union-labels-concerned-parents-extremists-in-new-ad\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey Teachers Union Labels Concerned Parents \u2018Extremists\u2019 in New Ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-jersey-teachers-union-labels-concerned-parents-extremists-in-new-ad%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1615328&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-new-jersey\">New Jersey<\/a>\u2019s largest teachers\u2019 union has drawn criticism after airing an ad that appears to call parents who voice their opposition against inappropriate sex and gender indoctrination in schools \u201cextremists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amid the controversy over New Jersey\u2019s sex education standard set to be implemented this fall, the 200,000-member-strong New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) on Monday released a new 15-second ad titled \u201cSame Thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> [embedded content] <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t agree on everything in New Jersey,\u201d the narrator says as the ad opens with pictures captioned \u201cPork Roll\u201d and \u201cTaylor Ham,\u201d a reference to New Jerseyans\u2019 long-standing debate over what to call their iconic breakfast sandwich.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we all agree that our kids deserve a world-class education,\u201d the narrator continues. \u201cSo when extremists start attacking our schools, that\u2019s not who we are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ad at this point shows photos of people protesting at school board meetings, with two news headlines: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/news\/2022\/04\/some-nj-schools-under-siege-from-those-trying-to-get-books-on-race-lgbto-pulled-from-shelves.html\">one report<\/a> entitled \u201cSome NJ schools under siege,\u201d about concerned parents demanding school libraries to remove books they considered inappropriate for young kids; and <a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/new-jersey\/across-nj\/dont-say-gay-bill-introduced-nj-state-senator\">the other<\/a> entitled \u201c\u2018Don\u2019t Say Gay\u2019 Bill Introduced By NJ State Senator,\u201d about a proposed bill that would impose restrictions on how New Jersey schools can teach about sex and gender.<\/p>\n<p>One of the photos used in the ad was taken <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/back-to-school-live-updates\/2021\/08\/30\/1032417970\/school-board-members-hostile-meetings-mask-mandates-politicized\">last August<\/a> at a Clark County, Nevada, school board meeting, where people protested against the school district\u2019s COVID-19 mask mandate before being escorted out by police. Another one depicts a man yelling during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/education\/considering-race-and-racism-in-georgia-classrooms-here-are-some-helpful-definitions\/OL7XP4MEAVCWXGJ3IYR74JRYK4\/\">May 2021 meeting<\/a> in Cherokee County, Georgia, after the school board rescinded a resolution against the teaching of critical race theory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople who only want to fight to score political points should take that somewhere else,\u201d the ad concludes.<\/p>\n<p> Republicans Respond <\/p>\n<p>Republican lawmakers criticized the ad, saying the union is out of touch with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Jersey\u2019s largest teachers\u2019 union has drawn criticism after airing an ad that appears to call parents who voice their opposition against inappropriate sex and gender indoctrination in schools \u201cextremists.\u201d Amid the controversy over New Jersey\u2019s sex education standard set to be implemented this fall, the 200,000-member-strong New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) on Monday released [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":392,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1615328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1615328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1615328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1615328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1615328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}