Posted on 07/10/2006 12:08:17 PM PDT by John Semmens
The National Education Association (NEA) has voted overwhelmingly to endorse same-sex "marriages." The action goes beyond "tolerance" to "acceptance" of the homosexual lifestyle as "normal" and "beautiful."
Critics of the measure have suggested that the union is venturing far afield from the objectives of educating the young and obtaining better pay and working conditions for teachers. "This whole issue is controversial and tangential to our goals," said Norman Person, an NEA member from California. "I don't see how it helps kids or teachers."
Franklin Butz, a gay member from New Jersey had the opposite view. "Educating the young about alternative lifestyles is central to our mission," said Butz. "Acceptance of alternative ways of living is more important than the mastery of mundane topics like math or reading. After all, computers can do our math. Television can supplant reading. But these devices can't replace the feelings we need to instill in our students."
Cynics assert that the foray into controversial political issues is aimed at diverting attention from poor test scores among public school students. "The endorsement of non-academic causes is symptomatic of the rot that pervades the NEA," said a disgruntled NEA member who asked to remain nameless. "I suppose if we get people riled over these issues they'll forget about the more fundamental failures of the system."
The NEA leadership's push for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues as a requirement for teacher credentialing has been impeded by the low reading comprehension of so many NEA members. It is a delicate matter since it is feared that the normal procedure of converting the message into pictographs might be too pornographic in this particular case.
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This is satire, correct?
of course they do...cause they've solved all the other educational issues that this country faces.
With all the success at turning out high quality graduates and citizens that can read, write, have knowledge of the government and it's history...gee I'm so glad they're expanding.
The NEA leadership's push for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues as a requirement for teacher credentialing has been impeded by the low reading comprehension of so many NEA members.
Hard to tell satire from the truth anymore........
Yes, let's keep in mind before flaming away too much (while I do agree the NEA does more bad than good most of the time) that this is a HUMOR column.
Uuugghh, don't make me puke!!
Wow, what's sad is that I completely missed that it was satire.
"Wow, what's sad is that I completely missed that it was satire."
It'sa so easy to do these days. Truth is stranger than satire...
Queering the Schools:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/Printable.asp?ID=8090
Unions against teacher pay incentives:
http://www.eiaonline.com/convention.htm
"* Legislative Amendment 17 was approved, placing NEA in opposition to "federal legislation giving financial incentives or pay to teachers based solely on the subjects or fields in which they teach." The rationale for the item stated such programs "serve to advocate NCLB's priorities and create a hierarchy, thus breaking the union.""
"While everyone was distracted by a resolution with no material value, NEA's Committee on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identification was busy with something far more substantial: "That NEA advocate for the inclusion of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender issues in the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) teacher education program review process." NEA has already contacted NCATE about this."
It's hard to tell these days!
The NEA is almost as harmful to our country as the ACLU because they influence children with their gay, liberal hot air environmental crap.
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