I miss what used to be before the NEA, the feds, and the woke decided to force their agenda
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In the early ‘80s, I was a county officer in Virginia-NEA for most of my first seven years of teaching. Attended pretty much all of the conferences and conventions. In Dade County, FL, in order to receive health care benefits, I was a member of AFT. After staying home with our sons and then returning to teaching after our daughter entered first grade, I joined CEAI (Christian Educators Association International), vowing never again to compromise my beliefs for a ‘union’ organization.
All that to say: It’s been many years that the feds have forced their agenda. In fact, I was in college when Jimmy Carter signed the legislative act to create the cabinet-level US Department of Education. IMHO, that was when education began the downward free-fall.
Link it back to the “omnibus” interpretation of the 16th Amendment.
If it is a tax, the Federal government receives it FIRST and then re-distributes it according to the Departmental allocation.
So glad you found the CEAI. More teachers should do the same.