Teachers fake-marriage uproar hid another scandal in-school lefty brainwashing

When California teacher Laura Pinho used a Zoom educators’ webinar to publicly proclaim that she’d married a Gazan man to give him US citizenship, she set off a national uproar. The New York Post reported on the incident — first caught by the North American Values Institute — and Pinho is now under federal investigation for potential marriage fraud.But Pinho’s nuptials weren’t the most scandalous part of the educators’ four-part confab.It’s the official program of the series that should really alarm parents.Pinho was one participant in a webinar called “Challenging Zionism in Schools,” run by the far-left CodePink.The presentation was filled with teachers, union officials and education activists — none of whom expressed shock about what Pinho described, or concern that she’d crossed an ethical line.Instead, they spent hours discussing how educators could bring anti-Israel activism into public school classrooms — with the way paved by vaguely worded state education standards and Social-Emotional Learning requirements.The series featured speakers from the California Teachers Association, United Teachers Los Angeles and the Massachusetts Teachers Association, as well as Adam Sanchez of Rethinking Schools, an education nonprofit that frequently partners with the nation’s largest teachers’ unions, the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers.The advice they offered was remarkably candid about the extreme-left activism that’s drenching America’s classrooms.Pinho explained how she uses school dance classes to teach children about Palestinian “resistance.”She boasted about how her Students for Justice in Palestine club took over a school assembly, and shared footage of pro-Gaza demonstrations on school grounds.She even explained why left-wing teachers are so eager to encourage and guide kids’ activism: because they have greater free-speech rights at school than teachers do, and therefore more abilit...