A California conservative warns that indoctrinating school children on labor unions will make them more vulnerable to accepting left-wing ideology.
Gov. Jerry Brown (D) has signed AB 2269, legislation that declares May "Labor History Month." The governor's office reports that "Labor History Week" will be replaced with a month-long commemoration of labor unions.
Tim Thiesen, a vice president with the California Republican Assembly (CRA), suggests what Gov. Brown, a longtime ally of the state's unions, hopes to accomplish with this measure.
"What it's going to do is … it starts forming these opinions. I mean, kids are very impressionable, and what that does is that carries forward, and … it's going to make them more sympathetic to liberal causes, labor unions," Thiesen asserts. "The money machine for the left is the labor unions in California."
The Sacramento Bee reports that the month-long curriculum will commemorate the role of the labor movement in California and U.S. history.
"We're spending time, effort, and money on things that are really hollow subjects in light of the fact that our test scores continue to drop," the CRA vice president laments. "We're graduating kids out of high school, trying to go into the workforce and into the junior college system, [who] cannot read, write and communicate."
Many school districts take the first week of April off for spring break, when Labor History Week was initially scheduled. So by pushing the commemoration to May, Thiesen laments that schools will have more time -- and more opportunity -- to cover the subject.