Preening in the mirror

per for the teachers hounded out of classrooms, or dragged through tribunals, for the crime of asking basic questions about gender ideology.

While many teachers, sick of the radical posturing, are leaving the union. Or their jobs.

Meanwhile, in the real world — far from the NEU’s executive — classrooms are crumbling, behaviour is spiralling out of control, and burnout is baked into the job description. Teachers have spent years begging for clear, practical guidance on how to legally navigate the rising number of trans-identified students and staff. Now, the NEU’s overwhelmingly female membership has been let down by the very body charged with advocating for their rights at work.

The NEU isn’t standing up for the future of education — it’s preening in the mirror, nodding smugly while waging war on its own members. It’s time someone reminded union executives that teachers don’t need lectures from those to whom they pay their subs. They need safe workplaces and a union that puts safeguarding above student activist slogans.