National Education Association video ad suggests NJ parents who battle school boards are 'extremists' who 'fight to score political points'

The New Jersey chapter of the National Education Association suggested in a YouTube ad that parents who show up to school board meetings and do battle with members in public are "extremists" who "fight to score political points."

The influential NEA is the largest teachers' union in America.

Here's the 15-second video ad:

NJEA - Same Thingyoutu.be

"We don't agree on everything in New Jersey," the ad begins, showing a couple of regional sandwiches that state residents have been known to argue about over the years.

"But we all agree that our kids deserve a world-class education," the ad continues, showing smiling, racially-diverse groups of students and teachers in school settings.

Then things get dark, as the ad flips to black-and-white images that show what appear to be angry parents hollering at school board meetings. Parents who've become vocal about woke curriculum content and teachers and staff overstepping their bounds is a phenomenon that has grown in prominence across the country in recent years.

"So when extremists start attacking our schools, that’s not who we are," the ad narrator says, as the video ad concludes. "People who only want to fight to score political points should take that somewhere else."

According to the Daily Caller, the ad points to two articles: “Some NJ Schools Under Siege” published by NJ.com, which is "about groups that are working to remove LGBTQ and Critical Race Theory books from New Jersey libraries," and “Don’t Say Gay Bill Introduced By NJ State Senator” published by Patch.com, which is about "the introduction of a bill that would prohibit lessons on gender identity until seventh grade and give parents the ability to sue if the law is broken."

What did one parent advocate have to say?

Laura Zorc, executive director of Building Education for Students Together — which advocates for parents getting involved in their children's education — told the Daily Caller that "defaming parents as ‘extremists’ for standing up for their children is right out of Merrick Garland and Randi Weingarten’s playbook."

Zorc added to the outlet that "New Jersey’s parents deserve better than this NJEA (New Jersey Education Association) slander — standing up for your children is not a political point, it is a parent’s responsibility. The NJEA should be ashamed for pretending they care more about children than their parents."