New Teacher Training Trend Has Parents In Its Crosshairs

PragerU CEO Marissa Streit has warned of the rise in “adultism” training that teaches children that their parents are the oppressors.

Streit has stated that teachers are being instructed to teach about “adultism,” a Left-wing philosophy that teaches parents enforcing boundaries on their kids against underage sex, life-changing medical decisions, and opposite-gender clothing is a form of tyrannical “fascism.”

In an interview with Fox News Digital, Streit warned that concepts such as adultism, along with DEI and Critical Race Theory, are all being repackaged as “ethnic studies curriculum.” She said at least 22 states are continuing to promote woke ideologies through this new label.

“[Ethnic studies] teaches the teacher to tell the student that the term adultism is a negative thing,” Streit said. “When an adult is behaving like an adult by telling their child that the child should not dress a certain way or have sex at an early age or even request sex or gender changes … the parent is engaging in adultism.”

Streit showcased the book “Lessons In Liberation: An Abolitionist Toolkit for Educators,” published by the worker-owned anarchist publishing company AK Press. The book’s information page mentions that it covers student organizing, radical sex education ideology, and anti-ICE immigration policies.

Streit read a passage from the manual, which allegedly stated, “Adultism teaches us that adults have the power and the right to decide what young people’s boundaries should be.”

Streit said that the controversies of teachers hiding medical procedures and pronouns from children are due to this rise in “adultism” teaching. She cited a recent resolution passed by the American Federation of Teachers stating that it will protect students from “forced outing” of a child’s gender ideology to parents as evidence for this.

Streit then linked adultism to the Democratic Socialists of America’s plan to dismantle major U.S. institutions.

“The ultimate goal is the DSA platform, and that is to radically transform America,” Streit said. She pointed to the DSA’s plan to abolish the Senate, the Electoral College, the Supreme Court, and other American institutions.

“They have to break the bond between a child and the parent. They have to break the bond between a parent and the community,” Streit said. “By creating an entire chaotic environment, you create an environment of collective grievance where the individual feels helpless and hopeless … then a new form of government comes out and says, ‘Well, you can’t trust anybody else, so therefore put your trust in us.’ And that is always what socialists have done.”

Workshops promoting adultism have reached the public’s attention and caused controversy in the past.

John O’Connell High School in partnership with Teachers 4 Social Justice reportedly hosted a conference on “adult supremacy” during an “Ethnic Studies Everywhere” conference, the California Post reports.

“Due to systemic power dynamics, inherently, the relationship between students and educators is an oppressive one. Oppressor (educator) & oppressed (student),” a presentation slide leaked to the internet declared.