Promote a culture of fear and bully teachers and parents into silence.
Undermine parents’ authority by sexually, socially, and politically indoctrinating kids.
Use the apple-pie image of the PTA as a “front” to promote a partisan agenda.
"Friedrichs masterfully weaves the personal and the political. A must read! Warning: Not easy to put down!"
"Standing Up to Goliath is a brave and enormously important book. A blow-by-blow account of arguably the most meaningful battle of our times—the ongoing fight for the nation's children against the all-powerful teachers' unions—it is simultaneously a deeply affecting personal memoir. Rebecca Friedrichs did not sign up to be a hero, but circumstances, and her own indomitable will, made her one. It should be mandatory reading for parents, and anyone else concerned with America's future."
"I laughed, I cried, I pounded my fist. I felt inspired, encouraged—and ready to keep battling. My heart was pierced when I realized the harm the sexxx ed would do to students who have already been victims of sexual abuse. I'll die before anyone does that to my students."
"A forceful documentary on the power of public employee unions to use union dues to destroy; not only our public education system, but to buy our children's political future."