NEA Statement Regarding Secretary Paige's Comments

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[chance33_98]

NEA Statement Regarding Secretary Paige's Comments

2/24/04 8:31:00 AM

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To: National Desk, Education Reporter

Contact: Kathleen Lyons of the National Education Association, 202-822-7213 or 202-669-6902 (cell); http://www.nea.org

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Following is a statement from Reg Weaver, president of the National Education Association, regarding the comments from Secretary Paige calling NEA a "terrorist organization":

"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."

[chance33_98]

NEA Partisan? NAH....

[eyespysomething]

The NEA is the 10th plank of the Communist Manifesto.

[optimistically_conservative]

Education Secretary Paige called the NEA a "terrorist organization". How unfortunate, misleading, and insulting to mafia groups everywhere.

[zook]

Read: "we are humorless geeks."

[Peach]

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

[Seeking the truth]

"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!

[familyofman]

"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.

[StonyBurk]

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.

[Redcoat LI]

"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?

[KC_for_Freedom]

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.

[hannityforpres08]

**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.

[mhking]

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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[chance33_98]

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.

[Enterprise]

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

[eyespysomething]

Didn't Secretary Paige discern between teachers and the NEA, for lack of a better term, lobby/organization people?

[ikka]

"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.

[Theo]

"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)....

[jackbill]

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.

[G.Mason]

" 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.

[1Old Pro]

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?