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A recent May Day webinar has teachers unions openly laying out how to bring activism into the classroom, starting with kids who are barely out of preschool. That might sound shocking if you’re just noticing it now. It shouldn’t. This didn’t start with May Day.
It’s the result of years of shifting the classroom away from education and toward something else entirely. These people are not going to stop.
Many moons ago, when I was in school. May Day wasn’t about protests or activism. It was maypoles, flowers, and kids laughing while trying not to trip over ribbons during a student showcase for our parents.
Now it comes with a lesson plan and a training ground.
The webinar getting attention now involved the Chicago Teachers Union and the National Education Association, working through ways to bring “social justice” into the classroom ahead of May Day. That includes showing protests in a positive light and encouraging even very young children to engage with activism.
The webinar also included guidance on how educators could bring activism into the classroom, including with very young students, with speakers who encouraged lessons centered on activism for children as young as three, presenting such engagement as a way to build early awareness and participation.
“I did want to say I really encourage teachers of young children not to feel like this is stuff that’s way beyond their students, not to be afraid of raising up social justice issues, including workers’ rights, anti-racism, pro LGBT, LGBTQIA plus issues, immigration and immigrants rights,” Kirstin Roberts, a pre-school teacher in Chicago Public Schools, says in the seminar. – Fox News
If this isn’t a reason to start homeschooling, then I don’t know what is. If you were not baffled by all the LGBTQ+ nonsense being pushed onto the kids in classrooms, then this may be of no interest to you either.
Oh, and it’s not just Chicago. Of course it’s not. Teachers’ unions operate like one of the most well-connected, tightly organized machines out there.
Exclusive.
Last night, I recorded a leader in the teachers unions in North Carolina saying they plan to break the law to go on strike and shut down all the schools in the state as a part of the May Day 2026 mass strike.
This is who is teaching your kids. pic.twitter.com/ku1IIiRjtt
— Karlyn Borysenko, anti-communist cult leader (@DrKarlynB) April 10, 2026
But it fits a pattern. Start with something small, introduce it early, and frame it as awareness. Then reinforce it until it becomes the norm. This pattern didn’t start with May Day, and it won’t end there either.
We’ve seen all this before with how the schools handled preferred pronouns, and their so-called “gender” identity crisis. And let us not forget about the Critical Race Theory also being taught and erasing real history. Teachers used to have lesson plans about racism being part of our history, tied to slavery and segregation. Now it often gets framed as something just as widespread today, driven by systems students are told still define the country.
You can see it in how history gets taught. Instead of presenting events and letting students work through them, the material often comes pre-framed. The emphasis shifts from what happened to how students should feel about it. The country isn’t something to understand. It becomes something to critique from the start. That approach shapes perspective long before students have the context to question it.
And now you see it in activism.
Walkouts, protests, and “civic engagement” don’t just appear out of thin air. They get encouraged and organized. This content gets folded into the classroom as something students should participate in, not just learn about. The May Day push is just the latest example, and it’s one of the more obvious ones because it starts so early.
That’s the real shift. They’re not waiting until high school or college anymore. Now they’re starting with kids who are still figuring out how to sit still through story time.
The people pushing this aren’t improvising. They believe in what they’re doing. They see it as necessary. That’s why it keeps showing up in different forms.
And in Chicago, that push is running straight into the leadership at Chicago Public Schools. CPS CEO Macquline King now finds herself dealing with a very familiar demand from the Chicago Teachers Union: cancel school so students and staff can head out and protest on May 1.
King pushed back and said schools should stay open, which, at this point, sounds almost controversial.
Either way, the direction is clear. This isn’t about education anymore.
The May Day lesson plans will come and go. The headlines will shift. But the direction stays the same. Earlier exposure. More integration. Less separation between education and activism.
It makes a lot more sense now why, under the Biden administration, the DOJ treated concerned parents at school board meetings like a threat simply for asking what their kids were being taught.
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CDC says: A young student points at a word on paper,” what does this word mean teacher”?
The word is freedom followed by words individual and liberty.
The teacher replies “those are words from a different place and time and have no meaning now”.
SCOTTtheBADGER says: This is very distressing.
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