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MacDonald: Vermont Needs An Amendment To Ban Government Unions

Before Vermonters vote on a constitutional amendment that makes it impossible to avoid the corrosive cultural rot of union power...

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Before any Vermonters vote on a constitutional amendment that makes it impossible to avoid the corrosive cultural rot of union power, check this out.

The National Education Association Vermont chapter also asserts that the state's public school teachers must acknowledge the nation's "white supremacy culture" as responsible for "white privilege" that is "conferred irrespective of wealth, gender, and other factors."

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Vermont is over 90% white, and it is also its privilege to be one of the most taxed states in the nation, ranking third-highest behind Hawaii and New York.

Vermont has the second-highest cost per student in the nation, while its "white kids" rank 47th in reading and 48th in math. That's out of 50.

I think NEA-VT needs to acknowledge that union culture and privilege, irrespective of wealth, gender, or other factors, have destroyed public education in Vermont.

Vermonters are getting bent over a barrel financially so their kids can be perp-walked through a system so ideologically captured that it teaches them to hate themselves, their parents, their history, even their own bodies.

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