NEA blasted for shading Betsy DeVos in tweet warning parents to 'check' kids' Halloween candy
foxnews.comParents groups and advocates blasted the National Education Association for an odd tweet picturing former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos while warning followers to "check" their kids' Halloween candy. "Parents and educators, be sure to check your kid's Halloween candy this year," the NEA, the largest teachers union in the U.S., wrote on Wednesday. "We just found an out-of-touch billionaire funneling dark money to undermine public education inside our candy bar.
Wow." Parent groups criticized the NEA's priorities, especially in light of recent academic slowdowns across the country in the wake of COVID-19 related school closures. "The National Education Association has zero accountability with the union fees and donations they collect.They literally paid someone to make this," Moms for Liberty New Hampshire said of the tweet.
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos listens during a cabinet meeting in the East Room of the White House on May 19, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) "Imagine being in the position of the NEA or the AFT, and knowing that you are responsible for the destabilization of public education for a generation.
I guess you would lash out with ridiculous memes too," the popular Twitter account NYC Expat Mom tweeted. "Left can't meme," National Review social media editor Claude Thompson simply tweeted.
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