Ng-model undefined in controller using proper scope inheritance (with example plunker)

I am trying to make a view that simply takes in an email and password via ng-model then passes it to a login function in the controller via ng-click. I can’t seem to get it working correctly and past forum posts about scope inheritance and $parent don’t seem to solve the issue for me.

the ng-model is under an ion-content and a label which is why my assumptions lead to scope inheritance issues.

here is a plunker where I attempted to re-create my issue: http://plnkr.co/edit/JFlO64xi4nG84xqFDYsv?p=info

I have tried $parent.user.email but this also doesn’t work. Can someone please help me figure out what is going wrong here?