GOP Assembly Challenger & Teacher Amanda Esposito Slams NJEA Snub
Fourth Legislative District; Saturday, August 5 – Republican State Assembly candidate and public school teacher in Gloucester County, Amanda Esposito, released the following statement today in reaction to the NJEA snubbing one of their own in the highly competitive 4th Legislative District:
“As a career educator and current public school teacher, I respectfully know more about the current state of public education and the issues facing students, teachers, and parents in New Jersey schools than our three opponents combined.
Make no mistake, the decision by the NJEA’s political leadership to snub a young woman, a teacher, and an NJEA-member is a direct result of my support for parental rights and opposition to Attorney General Matt Platkin’s decision to force teachers to keep secrets from parents about their own kids; and my opposition to age-inappropriate sex-ed curriculum standards. We should be empowering parents, not pushing them away. We should be educating our children, not indoctrinating them.
Frankly, I don’t believe the NJEA’s political leadership shares the values of an overwhelming number of their own members. They are out-of-step and out-of-touch, but a lot of people are afraid to speak out against them. Hopefully, their treatment of me encourages more people to make their voices heard. Teachers deserve an organization focused on what’s best for teachers and students, not one that has become focused on what’s best for its top brass and the extreme political ideology they embrace and seek to force upon the rest of us.”
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