Teachers' unions fight bill that would bar sex offenders from schools

Fox News ^ | October 23, 2013

[Zakeet]

A bipartisan bill that would stop convicted sex offenders from working in schools has been passed by the House but is running into a foe as it heads to the Senate: major teachers' unions like the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers.

[Snip]

The measure would require school systems to check state and federal criminal records for employees with unsupervised access to elementary and secondary school students, and for people seeking those jobs. Workers refusing to submit to the checks would not be allowed to have school positions.

In letters to lawmakers, the unions have claimed the measure might jeopardize workers' protections under union contracts.

[Zakeet]

Keeping perverts away from children will jeopardize their protections under our union contracts!

[RightGeek]

Look for the union a-hole

[bigbob]

it seemsthat most become sex offenders after they are hired

[fungoking]

I didn't recognize her with out Carrie Fisher chained to her wearing her Slave Girl Metal Bikini.

[WayneS]

In letters to lawmakers, the unions have claimed the measure might jeopardize workers' protections under union contracts.

Our senators and congressmen should demand that these unions provide the specific "protections" which will be jeopardized.

[WayneS]

Additionally, Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., has spoken out against the bill, saying it does not allow for people to overcome their criminal backgrounds.

Rep[rehensible] Ellison is a muslim. I am surprised he is even willing to admit that pedophilia a crime.

[loveliberty2]

In order to understand the 50+-year history of the teacher unions' role in the failure of so-called "public" education, citizens should review, year-by-year, the NEA's Legislative Agenda.

That agenda, since appropriated by "progressive" forces, reveals the degree to which the learning performance and character development of children has been subjugated to the "progressive" political agenda for America.

Far from being what many teachers have believed it to be--a teachers' professional organization for improving learning performance of children--the NEA has become the major leader in advancing the so-called "progressive" agenda for fundamentally changing America.

By forcibly extracting hundreds of millions of dollars from teachers to advance its own agenda, the teachers' unions have lined the coffers of Democrats and other politicians who would listen to their demands.

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