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NEA Statement Regarding Secretary Paige's Comments
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Posted on 02/24/2004 8:00:14 AM PST by chance33_98
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NEA Partisan? NAH....
To: chance33_98
The NEA is the 10th plank of the Communist Manifesto.
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posted on
02/24/2004 8:01:37 AM PST
by
eyespysomething
(There is no threat. The Communists are not about to take over our McDonald hamburger stands. JFK '71)
To: chance33_98
Education Secretary Paige called the NEA a "terrorist organization". How unfortunate, misleading, and insulting to mafia groups everywhere.
To: chance33_98
Read: "we are humorless geeks."
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posted on
02/24/2004 8:03:37 AM PST
by
zook
To: chance33_98
I'd say the Secretary had it EXACTLY right. Read this and notice it's sponsored by the Massachusetts NEA.
to be Held Again on March 15
MassNews ^ | March 7, 2003 | MassNews Staff
Fistgate IV will be held again on March 15 to teach teenagers how to play with the sexual organs of other students.
The first Fistgate was in 2000 and caused waves of protests from parents and others. It was exposed by the Parents Rights Coalition which taped part of the scandal so that people would finally understand what was happening, and by MassNews which reported it.
The homosexual community has said that its agenda was badly damaged by the scandal. It was almost unable to find a location for the event in 2001, but Tufts University finally did let them use its facilities again.
The sponsor of the event, GLSEN, an acronym for Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, says that the purpose of Fistgate is to teach safety and respect. But the event that was taped in 2000 went on for 55 minutes about explicit forms of homosexual sex, including thrusting your fist into another's rectum, before anything was even mentioned about condoms in the last five minutes.
Four years later in 2003, the Gay/Straight Alliance at Newton North High School, with the help of the state Dept, of Education, is handing out leaflets to students arriving at the school, which ask questions such as, "If you have never slept with a person of the same sex, how do you know that you wouldn't prefer that?"
It lists BAGLY as a resource for the teenagers to contact. In 1999, which was before Fistgate, MassNews reported that BAGLY offered $25 and free dinner to boys who would come to their headquarters in Boston and discuss homosexual sex and other issues. The boys were also invited to a free, three-day, lakeside, weekend retreat in New Hampshire with other "boys" up to 25-years, who are "attracted to or have sex with other men."
The following is printed on the Newton High pamphlets: "This project is supported by a grant from the Massachusetts Department of Education."
The state has been paying more than $1.5 million/year to help the Gay/Straight Alliances in the schools and similar activities. It is impossible to discover how much money is now going to those projects. Some of the money always went to GLSEN and it is assumed that much of it still doe
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posted on
02/24/2004 8:05:12 AM PST
by
Peach
(The Clintons have pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
To: chance33_98
"It is morally repugnant to equate those who teach America's children with terrorists. NEA is 2.7 million teachers and educators who are fighting for children and public education. Yet this is the kind of rhetoric we have come to expect from this Administration whenever one challenges its world view."What is it with these damn liberals?
They always use buzzwords like "working hard", "fighting", "childrun" or "working families"
Teachers fighting????
I thought there was some zero tolerance for fighting in goobermint schools!
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posted on
02/24/2004 8:06:19 AM PST
by
Seeking the truth
(Some oldies/newbies are really full of themselves, aren't they?)
To: chance33_98
"NEA Partisan?"
Yes they are partisan. But, all partisan groups are not "terrorists". If they were we would have a whole gaggle of "terrorists" right on K Street in DC.
My nieces who are teachers are not "terrorists", and they're members of the NEA. Sec Paige really put his foot in his mouth & since he speaks for the President he put those words in the mouth of W as well. Thank you Mr Paige for handing the dems another issue to flog W with.
To: eyespysomething
Amen-- Were the NEa an honorable organization I would find
some sympathy for them -but the Bush man is clearly closer
to the Truth than comfortable to the enemy within.
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posted on
02/24/2004 8:07:43 AM PST
by
StonyBurk
To: chance33_98
"NEA is 2.7 million teachers and educators who are fighting for children and public education"
Isn't the motto of the N.E.A"We fight for the teachers,the parents have to fight for the children",or something similar?
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posted on
02/24/2004 8:08:00 AM PST
by
Redcoat LI
("If you're going to shoot,shoot,don't talk" Tuco BenedictoPacifico Juan Maria Ramirez)
To: Redcoat LI
Isn't the motto of the N.E.A"We fight for the teachers,the parents have to fight for the children",or something similar? No, its more like,"When we get through with your children, they will know less but they will think they know lots of stuff, Oh, and they will love socialism and group economic handouts.
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posted on
02/24/2004 8:11:47 AM PST
by
KC_for_Freedom
(Sailing the highways of America, and loving it.)
To: chance33_98
**fighting for children and public education**
Yea right. The NEA is a political lobbying group fighting for everything but the children!!! Preach politics get treated accordingly.
To: rdb3; Khepera; elwoodp; MAKnight; condolinda; mafree; Trueblackman; FRlurker; Teacher317; ...
Yet they get to call those within the Administration names? Don't you just love the double-standards they love to throw out?
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posted on
02/24/2004 8:13:07 AM PST
by
mhking
To: familyofman
Yet this is the kind of rhetoric we have come to expect from this Administration Is the line I was referring to - they blame the entire administration because it is convienient and expedient for them to do so. Kind of like blaming a whole race for the actions of one of them.
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posted on
02/24/2004 8:14:20 AM PST
by
chance33_98
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To: Redcoat LI
Children? Education? Oh, is THAT what the NEA is supposed to be concerned about! (LOL)
"Yet, year after year, homeschoolers have been in the top placements for the National Geographic Bee, the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee, and the USA Math Olympiad."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=30948
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posted on
02/24/2004 8:14:27 AM PST
by
Enterprise
("Do you know who I am?")
To: familyofman
Didn't Secretary Paige discern between teachers and the NEA, for lack of a better term, lobby/organization people?
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posted on
02/24/2004 8:17:05 AM PST
by
eyespysomething
(There is no threat. The Communists are not about to take over our McDonald hamburger stands. JFK '71)
To: chance33_98
"When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of school children." (Quote from former American Federation of Teachers President Albert Shanker.)A relevant quote.
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posted on
02/24/2004 8:17:46 AM PST
by
ikka
To: chance33_98; familyofman
"It is morally repugnant to equate those who teach America's children with terrorists.... He didn't. He equated the union with terrorists, in a joke, not the teachers with terrorists. My sister is a teacher, and she's no terrorist. But the union is headed by jerks and selfish thugs.
The union is totally misrepresenting what the man said. And doing so in a faux-offended way. Phoney jerks. Glad I never had to pay union dues (even though I have earned an MA in Education)....
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posted on
02/24/2004 8:20:45 AM PST
by
Theo
To: chance33_98
Secretary Paige called the NEA a terriorist organization. He did not call teachers terrorists.
Once again, the NEA tries to hide behind the teachers, many of whom are terrorized into joining the NEA.
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posted on
02/24/2004 8:21:39 AM PST
by
jackbill
To: familyofman
"
My nieces who are teachers are not "terrorists", and they're members of the NEA. "
So glad you cleared that up!
Much like a member of the communist party that isn't aiding and abetting the overthrow of democratic countries.
Your garden needs more weeding.
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posted on
02/24/2004 8:22:22 AM PST
by
G.Mason
(The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected -- Will Rogers)
To: chance33_98
Yet this is the kind of rhetoric we have come to expect from this Administration whenever one challenges its world view." "This administration"? Do they care to offer other examples which support this mean spirited generalization?
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posted on
02/24/2004 8:23:57 AM PST
by
1Old Pro
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