The New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) is scheduled to host a 45-minute program called "Drag is not a Crime: The Past, Present, and Future of Drag.” This purpose is to promote the history of drag to garner the attention of educators. It's scheduled for November 7 during the two-day NJEA Convention in Atlantic City, according to Christian Post.
AFN talked with Maxford Nelson, the director of research and government affairs for the Freedom Foundation. He pointed out the NJEA is affiliated with a parent organization called the National Education Association (NEA), which is based in Washington DC.
"The NEA and the NJEA are some of the most progressive organizations in the country, and they have adopted a complete political and ideological worldview that is based on the cutting edge of progressive thought in America today," says Nelson.
He explained that this is an opportunity for these two organizations to train its local leadership.
“This is also to kind of signal what the priorities for the union should be," states Nelson.
He said these large organizations promoting drag, particularly in a public school context, is sadly not surprising, but it is still “absolute outrageous and indefensible.”
However, Nelson points out that the NJEA is attracting controversy related to their magazine, which is regularly distributed to around 200,000 educations across New Jersey.
"The New Jersey Education Association has also generated recent controversy due to the fact that the editor of its magazine has expressed some extremely anti-Semitic and anti-Israel sentiments to the point where she's praised Hamas and called the terrorists that were slaughtering Israelis on October 7th 'martyrs’ and praised their acts of resistance,” informs Nelson.
He states that this is not the first or the last time that this particular organization will generate controversy.
“It's the kind of thing that families and students and policymakers in New Jersey should be taking very seriously," says Nelson.
