This story was originally published by the WND News Center.

Sneers at critics of leftist, racist, sexist ideologies being taught in many classrooms, but one responds with, 'I love it when they are transparent about how sinister they are'

Stacy Davis Gates is president of the Chicago Teachers Union and spoke recently at a meeting of the City Club of Chicago.

She insisted that residents should "blame President Donald Trump, not the city's broken politics, for the fact that Chicago Public Schools are running a deficit of over a half a billion dollars," according to a Western Journal commentary published at the Gateway Pundit.

But the posting suggested her real title should be "the newest reason for you to homeschool your children."

That's because she went out of her way, snarkily ridiculing critics of the public education industry and its ideologies, to insist that she believes schools do own all the children.

She explained, "The budget and its choices manifest into real impact that our young people get to experience. So choices about the budget left students at Julian High School in 2025 without a math teacher for nearly a year, Clemente high school without a chemistry teacher … Those are not occurrences. Those are choices."

But her real ideology soon was revealed, when she explained, "one of the first social studies lessons taught in kindergarten classrooms is of community" as that lets children "come to understand the connectedness of people and institutions."

"The attack on the idea of community is exactly the point," she charged.

She pointed to "right-wing outrage" triggered by "a teacher who quoted African-American author James Baldwin during a rally last year."

"The children are always ours. Every single one of them, all over the globe."

Turning on her sneer voice, she said, "And what comes next is, 'CTU, you think your children are its children.'"

She confirmed, "Yes. Yes we do. We do. [Sneering again] 'CTU thinks all children belong to it, and their socialist conspiracy ideology.'"

She then claimed the corporate education industry educates, nurtures, protects and supports children, and even negotiates for them, although it was unclear what those negotiations involve.

Social media responses included:

"This is so vile."

"They wouldn't treat a dog they (sic) way those children are treated."

"I love it when they are transparent about how sinister they are."

The commentary noted, "And of course they are. We're just coming off the Biden administration, where the president said — in the same speech, mind you — that we've got to stop making teachers 'the target of the culture wars,' then told a group of teachers that their charges are 'not somebody else's children; they're like yours when they're in the classroom.'"

The report noted the full speech is here: