Posted on 12/13/2001 5:05:15 AM PST by Christian B
B-1. Early Childhood Education. The National Education Association supports early childhood education programs in the public schools for children from birth through age eight. The Association further believes that early childhood education programs should include a full continuum of services for parents/guardians, and children, including child care, child development, developmentally appropriate and diversity-based curricula, special education, and appropriate bias-free screening devices. These programs must be available to all children on an equal basis and should include mandatory kindergarten with compulsory attendance.
B-7. Diversity.The Association believes that education should foster the appreciation and acceptance of the various qualities that pertain to people as members of diverse populations. The Association further believes in the importance of observances, programs and curricula that accurately portray and recognize the roles, contributions, cultures, and history of these diverse groups and individuals.
B-9. Racism, Sexism, and Sexual Orientation Discrimination. Discrimination and stereotyping based on such factors as race, gender, immigration status, disability, ethnicity, occupation, and sexual orientation must be eliminated. Plans, activities, and programs must Increase respect, understanding, acceptance, and sensitivity toward gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transgendered people Eliminate discrimination and stereotyping in curricula, textbooks, resource and instructional materials, activities, etc. Integrate an accurate portrayal of the roles and contributions of all groups throughout history across curricula, particularly groups who have been underrepresented historically Eliminate subtle practices that favor the education of one student over another on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, disability, or sexual orientation Offer positive and diverse role models in our society including the recruitment, hiring, and promotion of diverse education employees in our public schools. The Association encourages its affiliates to develop and implement training programs on these matters.
B-31. Multicultural Education. Multicultural education should promote the recognition of individual and group differences and similarities in order to reduce racism, homophobia, ethnic and all other forms of prejudice, and discrimination.
B-32. Global Education. The Association believes that global education increases respect for and awareness of the earth and its people. Global education imparts information about cultures and an appreciation of our interdependency in sharing the world's resources to meet mutual human needs.
B-39. Sex Education. The Association recognizes that the public school must assume an increasingly important role in providing the instruction. Teachers and health professionals must be legally protected from censorship and lawsuits. The Association also believes that to facilitate the realization of human potential, it is the right of every individual to live in an environment of freely available information and knowledge about sexuality and encourages affiliates and members to support appropriately established sex education programs. Such programs should include information on sexual abstinence, birth control and family planning, diversity of culture, diversity of sexual orientation, parenting skills, prenatal care, sexually transmitted diseases, incest, sexual abuse, sexual harassment, homophobia.
B-68. Home Schooling. The National Education Association believes that home schooling programs cannot provide the student with a comprehensive education experience. When home schooling occurs, students enrolled must meet all state requirements. Home schooling should be limited to the children of the immediate family, with all expenses being borne by the parents/guardians. Instruction should be by persons who are licensed by the appropriate state education licensure agency, and a curriculum approved by the state department of education should be used. The Association also believes that home-schooled students should not participate in any extracurricular activities in the public schools.
C-7. Child Care. The Association encourages school districts and educational institutions to establish on-site child care for preschoolers, students, the children of students, and the children of staff members.
C-14. Extremist Groups. The National Education Association condemns the philosophy and practices of extremist groups and urges active opposition to all such movements that are inimical to the ideals of the Association.
D-8. Hiring Policies and Practices for Teaching Positions. The Association believes that hiring policies must include provisions for the recruitment of a diverse teaching staff.
E-3. Selection and Challenges of Materials and Teaching Techniques. The Association deplores pre-publishing censorship, book-burning crusades, and attempts to ban books from school libraries/media centers and school curricula.
F-2. Pay Equity/Comparable Worth. The "market value" means of establishing pay cannot be the final determinant of pay scales since it too frequently reflects the race and sex bias in our society.
H-1. The Education Employee as a Citizen. The Association urges its members to become politically involved and to support the political action committees of the Association and its affiliates.
H-7. National Health Care Policy. The Association supports the adoption of a single-payer health care plan for all residents of the United States, its territories, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. The Association will support health care reform measures that move the United States closer to this goal.
H-11. Statehood for the District of Columbia. The National Education Association supports efforts to achieve statehood for the District of Columbia.
I-2. International Court of Justice. The Association urges participation by the United States in deliberations before the court.
I-12. Family Planning. The National Education Association supports family planning, including the right to reproductive freedom. The Association also urges the implementation of community-operated, school-based family planning clinics that will provide intensive counseling by trained personnel.
I-26. Freedom of Religion. The Association opposes any federal legislation or mandate that would require school districts to schedule a moment of silence.
I-27. Gun-free Schools and the Regulation of Deadly Weapons. The Association believes that strict proscriptive regulations are necessary for the manufacture, importation, distribution, sale and resale of handguns and ammunition magazines.
I-38. Elimination of Discrimination. The Association is committed to the elimination of discrimination based on sexual orientation.
I-46. English as the Official Language. The Association believes that efforts to legislate English as the official language disregard cultural pluralism; deprive those in need of education, social services, and employment; and must be challenged.
I-49. Equal Opportunity for Women. The National Education Association believes that all persons must have equal opportunity for compensation (including equal pay for comparable worth). The Association supports an amendment to the U.S. Constitution (such as the Equal Rights Amendment) that guarantees that equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state because of gender. The Association endorses the use of nonsexist language.
C-14. Extremist Groups. The National Education Association condemns the philosophy and practices of extremist groups and urges active opposition to all such movements that are inimical to the ideals of the Association.
It reads in such a way as to suggest that extremist movements which AGREE with the ideals of the association are perfectly okay.
I am a high school teacher who has for 25 years refused to join the Association precisely because their lame aims are so inimical to my sane ones.
On the face of it, it would seem the NEA wants pedophiles hanging around the schoolhouse.
Industrialist, trained in Chemistry and Physics - Multimillion dollar drug research firm.
Paraplegic Communist Homosexual with Turets - the NEA
Notice the use of the word 'acceptance'. Not tolerance, but acceptance. For example, I tolerate the Jehovah's Witness', but I do not accept their belief system, nor (more importantly) would I tolerate anyone forcing me to accept it.
Teachers should have to take a competency test each year so the public can be assured they are capable of teaching the students.
Tenure should be eliminated so we could get rid of the incompetent teachers.
The sheer arrogance of these people is breathtaking! I certainly WON'T provide my children the kind of comprehensive education the NEA envisions because I don't want their days filled with non-essential CRAP that pushes out the important stuff like READING, MATH, LITERATURE, SCIENCE! That's precisely WHY we HOMESCHOOL.
If these folks could ever BUY a clue, they would understand that all of the 'social engineering' they are using in the schools to try to brainwash the kids is what is pushing us farther down the ladder in the world in our knowledge of the important fields of Math and Science. The kids in other nations who don't have to spend their days with "Heather Has Two Mommies", the latest info from the Sexologists and the most recent rants from the Gaia folks have much more time to spend actually LEARNING the IMPORTANT subjects.
And as for extra-curricular activities; these are funded with the same tax dollars as the regular education. If my family is contributing to those taxes, I see no reason why my kids can't participate in the activities if they so choose. My son is on a Middle School Lego Robotics team right now, and I don't think he should not be allowed just because I don't want him subjected to the the school's indoctrination all day long.
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And, how would you suggest this happen? What funding would you like to be taken from them?
You read it here first, folks....remember this when Planned (Fetuscide) parenthood opens up a clinic in your local middle- and high school.
http://www.eagleforum.org/psr/2001/aug01/psraug01.shtml
What the heck does “instructional materials and activities” mean exactly? Never mind, I don’t want to know. Ummmmm…..I DON’T THINK SO!!!
Teachers and health professionals must be legally protected from censorship and lawsuits.
No they shouldn’t.
it is the right of every individual to live in an environment of freely available information and knowledge about sexuality and encourages affiliates and members to support appropriately established sex education programs.
I don’t remember seeing the “right” to live in an environment where my children can freely receive sexual information, in the Constitution. No thanks! As a good mother, I’ve got my children’s sex education covered.
The Association encourages school districts and educational institutions to establish on-site child care for preschoolers, students, the children of students, and the children of staff members.
My property tax dollars are not to be used for a baby sitting service or baby sitters. That’s the family's responsibility. My property tax $$$ go to the school district, who has a responsibility to teach, reading, writing, math, science and history.
The National Education Association condemns the philosophy and practices of extremist groups and urges active opposition to all such movements that are inimical to the ideals of the Association.
Well, I guess this means the NEA doesn’t like me because I’m an extremist. LOL Anyone who doesn’t agree with them is an extremist. This is a very dangerous organization.
Family Planning. The National Education Association supports family planning, including the right to reproductive freedom. The Association also urges the implementation of community-operated, school-based family planning clinics that will provide intensive counseling by trained personnel.
Terrific! “School-based family planning clinic”. Entirely inappropriate for a place of learning. They want my tax dollars to go towards a family planning clinic within the school walls. They are “forcing their morals” on me and my children. You know what else? My daughter could walk in there and get “advice” and I would never know about it. (I thought only conservatives were guilty of forcing morals on people).
The Association believes that efforts to legislate English as the official language disregard cultural pluralism; deprive those in need of education, social services, and employment; and must be challenged.
Good luck you idiots. Teaching in anything but English doesn’t work and that’s a fact. I guess they don’t want Hispanic of Asian minority children to succeed in life. Don’t they know how valuable intelligent, bilingual employees are? I guess not!
And what I would really like to know is what do all the rest of these Resolutions have to do with my child getting a good education? Specifically H-7, H-11, I-2, I-26, I-27, I-38, and I-49?????
At the very least this is all an inappropriate use of my tax $$$$. No wonder American public education is such a mess. At the very most, these people are destructive, arrogant, and evil…..in my opinion.
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