Posted on 07/05/2004 12:52:37 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
But the NEA is nonpartison, you know.
Just ask them.
His personal turf is academia, but I believe it all starts first at home, then in primary and secondary school. I admit though that college professors are openly leftist and definitely anti-Republican. However, students routinely choose their college. This isn't true for primary and secondary school, since most parents aren't about to buy one school for the price of two.
The only answer is to abolish public schools. That's the goal we should strive for. It would likely reduce leftist indoctrination and would DEFINITELY improve the quality of education.
I've been wondering if the union has been spending dues money buying tickets to this. Inquiring minds want to know...
???Hummmmmm...like educating teachers so they can educate your children...being forced to spend money on students? Why I never heard of such a silly thing! The NEA oposes Ron Paige because he nailed that organization and called it what it is and he is right!
The NEA is akin to the Brown Shirts of Germany, it is a political arm of Socialism.
This is FR. You're allowed to say, "lies."
Our tax dollars should not support this DNC political organ. If this union had to depend on truly voluntary membership and dues they would vanish, and they should.
You can't do anything about it . We have what is called a "closed shop"!! If you don't pay the full dues because you don't want to belong to the union you still have to pay 85% because they do all the barganing for you . On top of that you become a sitting target for a toilet fish principal or supervisor if you don't have union representation.
I did not infer that YOU were the problem ..Also you can't quit . Look up what closed shop means . On top of that, if you don't have the union representation you are a sitting duck for stupid administrators who salivate at the chance to cut the ranks of teachers that have my core values .
I was the county treasurer for the union for seven years. It really pi$$ed them off when I would be at the officer's table durinf monthly meetings and had copies of Limbaugh's books sitting in front of me ..
This constitutes a tacit endorsement by Kerry of the Goebbels-like propaganda that Moore has made. The depths to which the Democrats will go to regain power remain unplumbed.
And just remember this. The same lockstep leftist loonies who will be watching Moore's crap at the NEA convention are teaching your children or grandchildren. Thank goodness my kids are homeschooled!
You're right. It is well past time for the Republicans to start playing hardball with this domestic axis of evil.
Why has it not become obvious to you that you need to teach somewhere else or to find another line of work entirely ?
Obviously, Flyer, you do not understand how employment in school districts works. Many schools are closed shops and you have no choice but to join the union - or not teach. When you just spent $40,000 in college tuition in training to be a teacher , that is an impossible choice.
So you say "quit" - if a teacher with more than a year or two of experience quits they will not be hired by a different district because they are too expensive. Because of the union rules, we cannot negotiate to take a smaller salary just to get hired. We carry our longivity pay with us. This is the rule that keeps many military spouses from teaching.
Since administrators jump on conservative teachers like a chickens on bugs, conservative teachers are very quiet.
BUT - we can donate time and money privately and that is where teachers need to get active. We can volunteer at phone banks to help get the word out about President Bush. We can work out of our homes anominously. Just contact your local Bush headquarters and explain your situation!!!!
Get creative out there teachers!!!! We must stand up to the NEA and AFT and the Kerry Campaign!!!!
Now wait just a minute here and think this through
With a few exceptions Americans support
prayer in schools
the phrase "In God We Trust"
Christmas displays in public places
Christmas carols in schools
Life starting at conception
It's the double standards that just get ya isn't it?
The "No Child Left Behind Act" does not fund the typical liberal causes (gayness, feminism, racism, new math, new "english"); it funds for solid academic subjects. If schools wish to do these other programs (conflict resolution, cooperative learning, etc.) -- the schools have to come up with the funding themselves. So. Hard core solid subjects is "programs we don't need", "spending money we don't have" (for programs liberals and marxists wish to teach YOUR children); "to get results that don't matter" (feelings are far more important than knowledge or literacy).
Sure, I tried to bring up "literacy" issues, the important of science.. however, what I got in response from these teachers on the subject of math/sci/literacy required my very best poker face to listen to. Mind you; I'm repeating the hearsay of these teachers. And this is what they were told by their "leaders".
Sending our kids to these union schools is no better than having them attend radical Muslim indoctrinations at the local Mosque.
The fact that they are showing and implicitly praising Michael Moore's modern equivalent of Triumph of the Will is icing in the cake, if any be needed, that the NEA is both corrupt and dangerous. And I have a practical suggestion to approach that problem. FreeRepublic should make a special effort to invite into our discussions people who are public school teachers and who see the danger that the NEA represents to all of us.
Congressman Billybob
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