The #RedForEd campaign has spurred West Virginia teachers to walk out of their classrooms Tuesday, nearly one year since their last teacher strike.

The National Education Association (NEA), the nation’s largest teachers’ union, is led by Lily Eskelsen Garcia and is calling for support for the striking teachers, using the hashtag #RedForEd, a radical socialist movement that Marxist teacher Noah Karvelis launched in Arizona.

“The rally is the latest Red for Ed action in a series of events ranging from the teacher walkouts in West Virginia, Arizona, and Oklahoma, to the recently concluded L.A. teachers strike,” said the National Education Association (NEA) – the nation’s largest teachers’ union – in its media outlet, NEA Today.

Educator and author Rebecca Friedrichs described the #RedForEd movement — pushed by teachers’ unions and their political allies — as a “deception” that uses teachers as pawns to advance the unions’ far-left political agenda to “fundamentally change [American] culture.” 

However, Rebecca Friedrichs, who spearheaded a national movement to wrest control of public schools from teachers’ unions, writes at the Orange County Register that the #RedForEd walkouts – which played prominently last year in the Arizona teachers’ strike, as well as others – are “deceptively promoted as a ‘grassroots movement’ led by teachers.”

According to Fox News, UTLA officials dismissed concerns they would have lost a court battle but decided to postpone the strike to avoid confusion and provide more time for parents to prepare for teachers to not be in school.

In a post at Truth in American Education, parent activists Denis Ian and Michelle Moore write that – because of the radical shift leftward they have taken – teachers’ unions are actually at war with parents.

“This letter is to inform you and all district employees that these acts are unlawful,” a letter from the Goldwater Institute states. “If the district does not reopen and employees do not return to their duties, parents and students will have a legal cause of action against them.”

“Teaching is political and silence is complicity,” he posted to his Twitter account in December 2017. “Things more educators should discuss (especially if they work with young (white) men in the classroom in 2018: gender, feminism, and #MeToo, race, gun violence.”