Many Pied Pipers Now - What The NEA And The Sunrise Movement Are Doing To Your Children
In folklore, the Pied Piper was a character who played a flute and led the children of Hamelin, Germany, away - never to return. Whether he was real or simply a fictional character remains unclear. What is clear is that the National Education Association, the Sunrise Movement, and their allies are leading your children away from you at this very moment. They, too, may never return.
All over the country, in recent days, there have been reports of “walkouts” by students leaving school to protest ICE and deportations. As usual, those reports have been deliberately misleading. Students have not, in some organic fashion, decided on their own to take action. They have been directed to do so by their teachers. In some cases, they have even been led by their teachers.
Many of the children have been in high school. Some, at least, have been as young as seven or eight.
Teachers were not silent observers of these walkouts. They facilitated them. In many cases, they directed them as part of an organized, nationwide effort in collaboration with a host of radical leftist organizations dedicated to pushing a far-left agenda and fighting Trump administration policies.
Teachers' actions nationwide are part of a broader effort under the umbrella of the Sunrise Movement. Sunrise is funded by the usual collection of radical billionaires, including George Soros, and radical dark money entities like Arabella. It began with a focus on environmental issues, but by this point, it is dedicated to virtually every radical proposition you could name, with a particular emphasis on radicalizing students and organizing in schools.
In January and February 2026, National Education Association (NEA) President Becky Pringle participated in a virtual event series hosted by the Sunrise Movement titled "Roadmap to Political Revolution." The event description read: “It’s time we dream — and organize — at the scale that Trump and billionaires are creating nightmares. 2026 is the year we break it all open…We need mass disruption to stop authoritarian consolidation.”
The Sunrise moderator of the event described Sunrise as having a “deep partnership” with the NEA when introducing Pringle to webinar participants. During the event, Pringle characterized the current administration under Donald Trump as a “dictatorship” and “nightmare,” calling for a “big and non-cooperative” movement leading toward mass student strikes on May Day (May 1, 2026).
During her remarks, Pringle told attendees that the NEA would leverage its 3 million members and thousands of local affiliates to "advocate," “organize", “take action,” and “mobilize” in support of Sunrise’s goals. Those remarks were made only days before the supposedly student-led walkouts began.
“By organizing our schools, we’re taking down one of the key ‘pillars’ holding up this regime.”
Sunrise Movement Organizing Toolkit
“It’s time for us to take over, classroom by classroom, school by school, city by city.”
Sunrise Movement Website
Do not for a moment think that what you have just seen is the end of anything. It is simply another step on the way to true revolution. Already Sunrise is pumping organizing material into schools nationwide, building to massive nationwide actions on May Day, the annual Communist celebration. Detailed instructions are available online via something called the “Students Rise Up Guide”.
“Map out your school - think about the different bases on campus and where they fall on the spectrum of support below. Think about different cultural orgs, popular clubs, sports, greek life, religious spaces, apolitical students, recruiting based on major or department. When you have mapped out the spaces on campus with the most pull - build trust with their leaders through 1:1’s and attending meetings and hear them out. Ask yourself: what structures exist in my school to organize?”
Sunrise Movement Rise Up Guide
We have stood by year after year and watched silently as Marxists bent on the destruction of the republic have infiltrated our schools and brainwashed our children. The bill has now come due. Many Pied Pipers are at work. We may never see our children again.
We have to work harder to insure money follows the child. In the meantime, microschools (bands of like-minded parents who take some time to help teach) are an option as well.
Anytime you can starve the beast of public schools, you should take advantage.
In the earlier years - 1982 - of my teaching career, I attended the NEA annual convention as an alternate delegate. (Ironically it was in Minneapolis.) The day I spent on the floor in place of a delegate who couldn't be there, I heard, for 3 hrs., the various state delegates debating the language to be used in a letter of reprimand from the NEA to then newly elected Pres. Reagan about his having funded the Contras in Nicaragua against the communist Sandinistas in the country's attempt to rid itself of communists. I've been retired now for 15 years. Over the past few days this past week, I witnessed two different classes - both from different local middle-schools - being led by teachers protesting against ICE and President Trump's deportation of illegals. (If I was the county prosecutor, I would have sheriff arrest the teachers, and prosecute them.)
So, reading this latest post from Sam today makes it appear to the unaware as though these actions are a more recent infiltration of leftists in our public ed. I learned 45 yrs. ago that the NEA is a political opposition arm to Americanism, and thus am not surprised at the more recent display by younger teachers today who've replaced those who've retired, have become more emboldened at taking greater control of children with their "flute" of socialism & communism in the past decade. My blue state's legislature is currently attempting to pass new laws into effect which will not only imposed greater control of children in their schools, (we're having to push another "Parent's Rights" initiative to counter the legislature's cancelling of our first initiative for the same reason) but are also trying to impact private schools in every way they can to counter trans issues. Such actions validate what I read decades ago about the long range goal of communism... start with the schools and be patient while the parents choose not to believe anything nefarious is going on under their noses. Then it's a matter of waiting them out over a couple of generations. Voila, you gain control of the country (Fabian Socialism) and now we're seeing it happening.