One more person that should not be in a position of authority over our children.
When you have to put out a statement about what a badass you are,
Then you aren’t a badass.
They do nothing to uplift education. Their goal is $$ and mediocrity at best.
What an assemblage of wisdom: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Tom Vilsak, Garrison Keilor, Ban Ki-Moon, and Billie Jean King. Surprised they missed Maxine Waters, Sheila Jackson Lee, and Al Sharpton. Just wow . . .
What do you make per year...pay,bonuses,benefits,etc?
When will you be having that highly esteemed "educator",Bill Ayers,peaking to your members?
Since the NEA was founded education levels have done nothing but fall. It is a communist government run program designed to take power of education away from local communities.
That so-called "liberal/progressive" movement intentionally diminished the role of parents and schools in teaching students about their Creator-endowed rights and responsibilities, their individual role as citizens in their communities, and the character training which once was the goal and aim of education in America
Do older readers of this thread remember when such character training was a part of the school day?
Do any now retired teachers remember when the National Education Association provided booklets and other materials based on Biblical teachings and America's founding documents in order to teach children their rights and responsibilities as good citizens? At my desk right now is a little booklet, one of the many, which the NEA published and provided for teachers across the nation
Perhaps an examination of this web site may refresh the minds of such teachers. Or, perhaps a reading of this factual account of NEA publications may enlighten others who are younger to understand the degree to which the "progressive" control of education in America may have contributed to our current dilemma.
"Ideas have consequences." - Weaver
Eskelson is a major proponent of drugging as many children as possible. She is a horrible and evil person.
Prediction: She’ll self identify with Antifa, BLM and BAMN.
Oh, she is silly.
Hey, silly Lilly, you mad? You support ANITFA activities?
Afer school Satan?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_School_Satan
The capture of the entire education establishment was the first part of the plan to come to fruition, it made taking over the media much easier. With both of those and control of both parties, America as founded was finished.
Until Trump.
KGB plans laid in the 1950’s are why traditional Americans are besieged in their own country in this century.
What a frikkin' laugh! All people like this do is hamstring kids futures by bogging them down with political propaganda, half-truths and outright lies. How we ever stood by and let education get this out of hand is beyond me.
I'd hate to be in their shoes when the inevitable CW2 comes.
My father was a teacher in the public schools for 35 years and then at a private school for 16 more.
He had little use for the teacher’s union. While they were fighting to increase the maximum number of days you could “bank” and get paid fir outright at retirement from 260 to unlimited, dad was busy trying to give kids the best education he could. Holding a Ph.D. In Linguistics, he taught Honors level Latin and Classical Greek and coached debate. He had little use for those that quibbled over two minutes here and commas in contracts.
I can’t imagine his take on these fools.
I guess Billie Jean King is an honorary member of the People With Funny or Unpronounceable Names Club.
Hey Ms. $265,000+/year education person,
In a 2015 survey why were US students ranked 28th world-wide in math and science, behind such luminaries as Latvia, Vietnam and Slovenia? Is it because those countries pay their teachers better? That they spend more per pupil on education?
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-32608772
if she’s so impressed by her panel of supposed education experts, its clear why the NEA and so much of public education is in the toilet
To me NEA stands for : Nemesis of Education in America. It’s real clients are teachers and the bureaucracy that grows around them, not the students. Since Government is the source of income it’s ultimately Government that they serve . They do so by advocating socialist polices that increase government control. Government returns the favor by making it near impossible to get rid of bad teachers. Furthermore the education bureaucracy increases in size and cost. The only long term ultimate solution is simple: Separation of School and State.
“...and I don’t take lightly my obligation to speak up for our kids...”. I never had any kids with her so who are the “our” kids she us talking about? There are “my” kids. There are some “our” kids when I refer to me and my wife. I might even refer to “your” kids if you have some. If they are not mine or yours I would probably refer to them as “those” kids.
So let me help her. You should only speak for your kids. If I need your help speaking for my kids (my kids need help in the art of not speaking) I will let you know. Other wise shut up.
Lilly, I am sure I speak for millions of people who long ago pulled their children out of any school your members worked at. I know both my kids, now success stories in their own right, never attended socialist “government” run schools. Yes, it unfortunately took me until the 3 rd grade to get them out..........a little court battle with the x missus you understand. They both lost! See, neither one of them had ever even heard of the NEA so they had no clue.
Finally, millions of us hope and pray that the end of the Department of Education is near and your cancerous organization with it.
“Past luncheon speakers have included Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, former Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, Garrison Keilor, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, and Billie Jean King. Wow!”
wow, indeed! every one of them is recognized as a world-class expert in government schools ...