A National Teachers Association training session that asks teachers to interact with parents COVID-19 Vaccines – in a campaign designed for Alexandria Ocasio-CortezThe K campaign – was blasted as a ‘tremendous attempt to coerce, manipulate and even track down information about students and their parents’.
The recurring virtual training is hosted by the vaccine equity group Made to Save and sponsored by the National Educators Association (NEA), and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT).
Jennifer Mays, a drama teacher for Middletown Township Public Schools, ‘having the audacity to endorse this type of presentation suggests that the NJEA, NEA, AFT, and any other organization explicitly regard teachers as professional or critical thinkers. I do not agree. jersey, pointed Fox News.
Mays continued, “It was a coercive attempt to coerce, manipulate and even track information about students and their parents.” ‘Anyone involved in such deception has lost their morals and the purpose of education along the way.’
According to Fox News, the training session instructed teachers how to use the Reach app – built for the progressive Lightning rod Ocasio-Cortez – to ‘follow up and track’ their interactions with parents, and here Offered ‘Gift Cards’ to even the most active users. .
Workshop – Advertised as a guide for teachers on how to talk to parents and caregivers about the COVID-19 vaccine as children 5-11 may soon be eligible for the shot – Teaches teachers’ basic skills and claim to provide ‘talking points’. Vaccine ‘Strategy on how to reach them digitally, through active listening practices, and through.’
A national teacher training guide guides teachers to log conversations with parents about the COVID-19 vaccine into a progressive campaign app called Reach
The app was created by volunteers during AOC’s campaign and got a lot of credit for its underdog victory
‘See the people you’ve talked to and mark how your conversation went! Then add them to your Reach Network and add their contact information so that you or Made to Save can follow them later and help them get vaccinated,’ said Training.
The workshops are hosted by the Vaccine Equity group, Made to Save. Next session is scheduled on 4th November
Teachers were described as reliable messengers and parents were encouraged to guide themselves and their children to vaccinations.
‘As someone already knows and trusts, you can find out what the vaccine is about them, relate to on an individual level, and in their journey to immunization,’ says one slide. You can share information to help them.
‘As a teacher or school staff member, you are a trusted messenger for many students. Use these tips to guide your interactions with them and help them stay safe and sound!’
The training also included talk points, such as, ‘Would you like me to help you make an appointment?’ and ‘I am excited to see our students and their families safely!’
The ‘Our Approach’ slide reads, ‘We are not telling people what they should do or think. We are listening to the people and answering their concerns authentically.
The slide continued, ‘You don’t have to be a health expert to have a good conversation.’ ‘To finish, help the person plan the vaccination, or plan to check in on their concerns later.’
Teachers are instructed how to use the REACH app and encourage parents to guide their families to get vaccinated
The slide titled ‘Help them find their own reason’ tells teachers not ‘what to do or what to think’, but to ‘help their friends and family find a reason to get vaccinated’ ‘ warn up.
The next training is scheduled for November 4th at 4 p.m. EDT.
The Reach campaign app was created by Jake DeGroot and Leo Susan as they volunteered for the AOC’s 2018 campaign, and has since become a vital tool for grassroots organizing in many Democratic campaigns.
‘We created the Reach for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez campaign as a tool for ourselves when we realized that traditional door-to-door propaganda methods were limiting who we were talking to and when we could effectively We were able to collect data from the field,’ the about page reads.
The company is registered as a Public Benefit Corporation which means that it is ‘a for-profit corporation whose purpose is to generate public benefit and operate in a responsible and sustainable manner.’
Republican New Jersey state senator Holly Skepisi said the training is ‘an unconscionable breach of privacy and ethics’
The use of the Reach app by teachers to communicate and record conversations about COVID-19 has been criticized by critics of progressive Democrats.
“I strongly support vaccination and have really caught the heat to encourage others to get vaccinated,” Republican New Jersey state senator Holly Shepissi told Fox News in an emailed statement.
‘However, to put our teachers in the shaky position of exercising their ‘trust and influence’ on children and their parents, persuading them to make individual medical decisions, and then name through gift cards to teachers, Encouraging these children and parents to input addresses and vaccination status into a searchable politically progressive database maintained by and for Congressional Women’s AOC’s campaign team is an unintentional breach of privacy and ethics, considering this children’s data By using political propaganda and it borders on criminal.’
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