The president of the nation’s largest teachers union has faced ridicule for delivering a frantic speech that featured shouting and pounding on the podium, which critics have called ” office.
Becky Pringle, president of the National Education Association, took to the stage at the weekend’s annual convention of representatives of the 3 million-member union in Philadelphia and delivered an aggressive, high-pitched speech about the need to “win it all.”
“NEA, keep up the good work for our democracy! We have to win it all,” Pringle yelled, slamming his hands on the podium.
“The students expect us to win it all,” she continued, before continuing to yell, “All wins! All wins! All wins!”
“We are NEA!” she shouted over and over.
Pringle is a Democrat; Advisor Her rant shocked people after the video went viral on social media while she was questioning former President Barack Obama about “excellence in education for African-Americans.”
Parents: What is your plan to improve the poor quality of education?
Becky Pringle: We have to win it all!!!
Parent: Isn’t that unrealistic?
BP: We keep moving forward!!!
Parents: But you’re trying to push us off a cliff!
BP: We are the NEA!!! That’s what we do!!! pic.twitter.com/ubNHORthn0
— Jason Bedrick 🇺🇸🎗️🇱 (@JasonBedrick) July 7, 2024
In Full speechIn the interview obtained by Fox News, Pringle spoke about transforming America’s education system into a “racially and socially just and equitable system.”
To unite not only our party members, but our people, to reclaim public education as a public good, a foundation of our democracy, and to transform it into the racially and socially just and equitable system it was never intended to be. We worked hard to remove a tyrannical, deceitful and corrupt White House, but the reality is that the seeds sown during that terrible time continue to sprout today.
We are those who help shape the heart of our hopes and dreams for this nation. We are those who hold fast to a belief in the validity of the possible. We are the successors of all those who did this work before us. We must press on. Fellow NEA delegates, we can do this work. We must do this work.
X-user @amuse placed a video of Pringle’s speech next to a scene from the hit NBC comedy. officeIn the film, the character Dwight Schrute delivers a similarly aggressive speech modelled on Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.
Stranger than fiction: Becky Pringle of the National Council on Education, the crazy Democratic activist who represents public school teachers, imitated the infamous speaking style of Dwight Schrute from The Office this weekend. Who could have done it better? pic.twitter.com/sD27oQ9oh7
— @amuse (@amuse) July 8, 2024
“Only blood moves the wheels of history!” Schrute said in the episode, leaping to the podium and gesturing wildly like Pringle. “This has been a lifelong struggle. It is a never-ending struggle. I tell you, you will understand that it is a privilege to fight! We are warriors!… Rise up and be worthy of this historic moment! A revolution is worthless if it cannot defend itself!… We must never succumb, because only united can we prevail!”
School choice activist Corey DeAngelis also mocked Pringle with an edited video of him screaming in front of a hellish backdrop.
Teachers Union President Becky Pringle wants it all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/xfyHlKmv6g
— School choice evangelist Corey A. DeAngelis (@DeAngelisCorey) July 8, 2024
“These power-hungry control freaks think your kids are theirs. They’re part of a government-worshipping, parent-hating cult,” DeAngelis told Fox News. “It’s time to defund teachers unions and let that money follow kids. Becky Pringle has done what Dwight Schrute did. She’s insane and hell-bent on controlling the minds of other people’s kids.”
Nikki Neily, founder and president of the nonprofit group Parents Defending Education, noted that Pringle made no mention of students falling behind in their learning during his roughly 30-minute speech.
The head of America’s largest teachers union delivered a 28-minute speech at its annual conference.
There was not a single mention of student learning loss. https://t.co/37QCDDFkte pic.twitter.com/lU4e3Modqc
— Nicky Neely (@nickineily) July 8, 2024
