Do you know who’s teaching your children?
Do You Know Who’s Teaching Your Children? Now Is the Time to Vet Their Educators.
As parents, we send our children to school with the expectation that their classrooms will be safe spaces for learning, growth, and critical thinking—not indoctrination. But in today’s climate, especially for Jewish families, this expectation is no longer guaranteed.
We are witnessing a dangerous trend across schools and college campuses: educators bringing their personal, political, and ideological beliefs directly into the classroom under the guise of “education.” This isn’t a matter of differing opinions—it’s about agendas that demonize Israel, erase Jewish history, and create hostile environments for Jewish students.
Take Professor Nancy Stockdale at the University of North Texas as just one example. She is not only the faculty sponsor of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)—a group known for spreading antisemitic rhetoric under the mask of activism—but she also teaches a class in which students were assigned to roleplay as Hamas activists. Yes, you read that correctly. At a publicly funded university, Jewish students were asked to watch their peers justify and romanticize a terrorist group whose mission is the destruction of Israel and the murder of Jews. How can this be acceptable in our educational institutions?
It is not just college campuses. In high schools across the country, teachers use classroom
discussions, assignments, and even games to inject antisemitic tropes and anti-Israel propaganda.
Their social media posts often reveal a disturbing level of bias and hostility toward the Jewish state—and these views seep into their lesson plans, shaping the minds of our children.
We cannot afford to be complacent. It is our responsibility as parents to vet our children’s
teachers.
Start by researching any social media of any teacher, professor and or school employee with whom your student comes into contact and discusses. Look into any student clubs or organizations, educators sponsor, advise, promote. Ask your child for copies of syllabi and assignments. Attend school board meetings. Speak directly with teachers when something doesn’t sit right. Silence is complicity—and our children are counting on us to speak up. This is not about stifling education or avoiding difficult conversations. This is about ensuring that educators are not using their authority to push one-sided, factually inaccurate/distorted/missing, hostile narratives—especially those that make our children feel unsafe or marginalized because of their Jewish identity.
In a time when antisemitism is rising at alarming rates, and our history is being rewritten or erased altogether, parents must become active, informed, and unapologetically vocal. Know the names of your children’s teachers. Know what they believe. Know what they are teaching. If you need support or help to speak up, message us (DFW MACA).
Because if we don’t ask the hard questions now, it’s our children who will pay the price later.
Do not be silent. Be vigilant. Be present. And be loud.
