Posted on 01/19/2015 5:54:26 AM PST by WhiskeyX
We, at the National Education Association, know that our members have a long and proud history of social justice activism. In advocating for the human and civil rights of their students, some public school educators are ahead of their time—challenging the social conventions of the day and taking extraordinary action to welcome, protect, and educate America’s students.
Beginning this year, 2014-2015, NEA will proudly recognize one of these outstanding social justice activists via NEA’s Social Justice Award.
This special award will be presented to one exceptional member who demonstrates the ability to lead, organize and engage educators, parents, and the community to advocate on social justice issues that impact the lives of students, fellow educators and the communities they serve.
The award will be presented annually by the NEA President at NEA’s national Representative Assembly. The awardee will receive an all-expense paid trip to attend and address both the NEA Representative Assembly and the Joint Conference on Concerns of Minorities and Women. The winner will also be invited to attend Educator Empowerment Day as part of the pre-Representative Assembly activities.
(Excerpt) Read more at nea.org ...
Too bad John Semmens didn’t write this.
Yes. I expected to see Semmens name up there. Appalling it is a real NEA story
"This special award will be presented to one exceptional member who demonstrates the ability to lead, organize and engage educators, parents, and the community to advocate on social justice issues that impact the lives of students, fellow educators and the communities they serve."
NOWHERE in that explanatory statement is education part of the motivation.
It appears the NEA is more proud of it's social activism than in teaching children
"We, at the National Education Association, know that our members have a long and proud history of social justice activism. In advocating for the human and civil rights of their students, some public school educators are ahead of their time—challenging the social conventions of the day and taking extraordinary action to welcome, protect, and educate America’s students."
The "educate" in that last line is ... if you know and understand the way "public education" works, indoctrination to an agenda that does not have, at its core, nor anywhere else, Norman Rockwell fundamentals
(Disclaimer ... I use Norman Rockwell a lot, not because of who and what the man was politically nor socially, but for the illustrations he drew which IMO, truly spoke a thousand words .... nay ... millions)
VISITS A RATION BOARD
So how do you deal with people like this? Really?
That statement alone demonstrates just how dangerous this organization to American values. Interesting they dropped all pretexts now by giving this award which rather should form the basis of the indictment of the awardee.
Around 1850 Emily Dickinson had the equivalent of a bachelor’s degree, and then some, upon graduating from primary school.
What is the NEA’s excuse now?
Defined as robbing those who obtained their assets by hard work and giving those assets to your friends and supporters who in no way contributed to production of those assets.
Now what if a teacher were to lead a movement against the genocide of Black and Hispanic babies and be nominated for this award?
"[I]n...a system in which each is allowed to use his knowledge for his own purposes the concept of 'social justice' is necessarily empty and meaningless, because in it nobody's will can determine the relative incomes of the different people, or prevent that they be partly dependent on accident. 'Social justice' can be given a meaning only in a directed or 'command' economy (such as an army) in which the individuals are ordered what to do; and any particular conception of 'social justice' could be realized only in such a centrally directed system. It presupposes that people are guided by specific directions and not by rules of just individual conduct. Indeed, no system of rules of just individual conduct, and therefore no free action of the individuals, could produce results satisfying any principle of distributive justice...In a free society in which the position of the different individuals and groups is not the result of anybody's design--or could, within such a society, be altered in accordance with a generally applicable principle--the differences in reward simply cannot meaningfully be described as just or unjust." (pp. 69-70)
Please refrain from abusing the activism sidebar.
too abd kids coming out of high schools “taught” by these people have on average a 7th grade reading level..... great job social justicce activists... please get back to your jobs.... thanks... and put the social justice b.s. aside... thanks again.
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