The National Education Association loves to talk about equity, inclusion, and keeping kids safe. But open up their own official records from a hundred years ago and you see something different.

In the 1916 Addresses and Proceedings of their annual meeting — the actual minutes they published — the NEA created a Committee on Racial Well-Being. Dr. Helen C. Putnam ran it. Her report, “The New Ideal in Education — Better Parents of Better Children,” laid it out plainly: train teachers to treat children as raw material for breeding a better race. Heredity first. Character second. Schools as the lab.

She came back in 1921 and 1922 with follow-up reports pushing the same thing. Normal schools needed to teach eugenics so the next wave of teachers could sort the fit from the unfit. All of it printed in the NEA’s own bound volumes, still online today for anyone to read.

They also gave the stage to Robert M. Yerkes that same year, the Harvard psychologist. This is the guy who later built the Army Alpha and Beta intelligence tests used to justify immigration quotas and forced sterilizations. His paper? “Educational and Psychological Aspects of Racial Well-Being.” The NEA platformed him without a second thought.

That history matters, and not as some ‘gotcha.’ Because the same union that once embedded racial hygiene into teacher training now pushes gender affirmation just as hard.

Puberty blockers. Cross-sex hormones. Social transitions kept from parents. Official NEA resolutions, trainings, legal defense funds — all of it lines up behind “gender-affirming care” as settled science and calls any parental pushback bigotry. They fight state laws that simply say parents should know what’s happening to their own kids.

And right now, thankfully, they’re losing in court. On March 3, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Mirabelli v. Bonta against California’s policy that let schools hide a child’s gender identity from parents. The justices said it violates parents’ Fourteenth Amendment rights. “Withholding information about a child’s gender identity from parents undermines their ability to safeguard their children’s well-being,” the ruling made clear. Parents — not schools — hold primary responsibility for their kids.

The pattern is the same. Yesterday it was “racial well-being” to build a stronger future. Today it’s “gender well-being.” Different labels, same core idea: the education establishment knows better than parents, better than biology, better than families.

Kids end up as the experiment. Parents get treated like obstacles.

This isn’t some wild theory. It’s in their own history and their current policy. The NEA has spent a century treating children’s bodies and minds as something to be shaped by ‘experts’ instead of raised by families.

Parents aren’t crazy for noticing. We’re just paying attention.

Until the NEA comes clean about its own record instead of rewriting everyone else’s, the same top-down control keeps showing up with a fresh coat of paint. And kids and families keep paying the price.