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Please read the full article and comment. Is the NEA a “terrosit organization” - harmful to America’s future?
Arlene Alice
NEA vs. America’s Future
by Hans Zeiger
When U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige called the National Education Association a terrorist organization last February, he wasn’t as far off the mark as the terrorists said he was. The National Education Association annual convention just concluded, and it is clear the NEA is more harmful to America’s future than ever before.
This year’s NEA platform reads a bit like a manifesto of a Third World socialist party. It isn’t simply the NEA’s typical opposition to parental choice, local educational control, charter schools, performance-based teacher salaries, vouchers, religious faith in school, and – since many NEA members pay dues by force of threat, intimidation and coercion – ordered liberty in general.
The NEA opposes those things, but its new platform also reaches into further political extremes that bear no hint of reflection of America’s fine teachers. Though the National Education Association – at the local, state and national levels – collects nearly 1 billion dollars in annual dues from members, those members often have no choice about paying dues, nor about the expending of their hard-earned dollars to promote the appalling platform of national union bosses.
Above all else, the NEA is a political organization. According to Forbes magazine, the NEA fields “the largest army of paid political organizers and lobbyists in the U.S., dwarfing the forces of the Republican and Democrat national committees combined.” But in one sense, the NEA is the most powerful constituency of the Democratic Party – 95 percent of political expenditures go to the Democrats, and the union enthusiastically endorsed John Kerry at the NEA convention. How else is the NEA bearing in vain the names of America’s teachers? Here are some sample business items and resolutions from their convention:
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Please read the full article and comment. Is the NEA a “terrosit organization” - harmful to America’s future?
Arlene Alice
NEA vs. America’s Future
by Hans Zeiger
When U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige called the National Education Association a terrorist organization last February, he wasn’t as far off the mark as the terrorists said he was. The National Education Association annual convention just concluded, and it is clear the NEA is more harmful to America’s future than ever before.
This year’s NEA platform reads a bit like a manifesto of a Third World socialist party. It isn’t simply the NEA’s typical opposition to parental choice, local educational control, charter schools, performance-based teacher salaries, vouchers, religious faith in school, and – since many NEA members pay dues by force of threat, intimidation and coercion – ordered liberty in general.
The NEA opposes those things, but its new platform also reaches into further political extremes that bear no hint of reflection of America’s fine teachers. Though the National Education Association – at the local, state and national levels – collects nearly 1 billion dollars in annual dues from members, those members often have no choice about paying dues, nor about the expending of their hard-earned dollars to promote the appalling platform of national union bosses.
Above all else, the NEA is a political organization. According to Forbes magazine, the NEA fields “the largest army of paid political organizers and lobbyists in the U.S., dwarfing the forces of the Republican and Democrat national committees combined.” But in one sense, the NEA is the most powerful constituency of the Democratic Party – 95 percent of political expenditures go to the Democrats, and the union enthusiastically endorsed John Kerry at the NEA convention. How else is the NEA bearing in vain the names of America’s teachers? Here are some sample business items and resolutions from their convention:
Click on above URL for full article
from a senior teacher in the building (I guess the ‘elected’ person) for not joining the NEA. I didn’t join for several reasons,