[Brilliant]

No surprise that they endorsed Kerry. Our education system stinks. By the time Kerry and the NEA get done with it, we might as well simply abolish public education altogether.

[myself6]

Im SHOCKED! SHOCKED, I tell ya...

[Izzy Dunne]

we might as well simply abolish public education altogether.

All in favor, say "AYE!"

[buffyt]

Great, our educators are all STUPID!

BTW there are some conservative teachers in Lake Jackson Texas where I live.... they have to keep their mouths shut about it!

[Paul Atreides]

Thanks. The suspense was killing me.

[AmericanMade1776]

I think there is some misinformation in this article, the NEA is not a "union", it is a professional teachers association. Secondly, the NEA has to have a seperate entity, such as NEA PAC to endores Candidates. I am not sure why NEA is said to be the endorsers of John Kerry. It should be the NEA PAC Endores John Kerry.

[Young Werther]

I was substitute teaching in April and May and I saw NEA posters in the teachers lounges which called for all to get on bored the Kerry Absess.. or sumphin like dat.

BTW if life begins at conception.....What's Fn's excuse?

[xrp]

For someone whose name is Brilliant, you sure don't know how to use the search function!

[walford]

The Power Grab of the NEA

...Transformed to militancy during the 1960s, Dr. Moo explains that the NEA has become a “hydra-headed… D.C.-based organization” that aspires to control a singular nationwide education system. In the NEA’s vision, local school districts’ directives should be circumvented, parental values should be undermined, and a good education for children should take a back seat to political power. The NEA’s Executive Secretary Sam Lambert said in 1967:

“NEA will become a political power second to no other special interest group… NEA will organize this profession from top to bottom into logical operational units that can move swiftly and effectively with power unmatched by any other organized group in the nation.”

[mombonn]

NEA would endorse Saddam if he was available.

[mrs tiggywinkle]

Well this comes as a complete surprise to me. Yep. right. uh uh.

[lightman]

This is dog bites man.

"NEA endorses A REPUBLICAN" would be man bites dog.

United Church of Christ = Democratic party at prayer.
NEA = Democratic party at school

[Cicero]

The NEA does this not only because most of their members are liberals, but because they want more money and more power, and Kerry will give it to them. Even the AP admits this.

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP

[Sister_T]

Wow! Really?! I'm stunned!

NOT!

[longtermmemmory]

Did they just copy the press release and add the last paragraph for show?

This is important for FL, where the teachers union is the dominant force of the Democrat Party.

[The_Reader_David]

Union or professional society makes no difference in this case, the NEA exists to defend the monopoly guild interests of the graduates of schools and departments of education, a group granted a monopoly on teaching in public schools and in some states any schools by the supine legislatures of the several state (solidly Republican states like Kansas where I reside being no excpetion--indeed the only exceptions I am aware of are, paradoxically liberal New England state where old-money private schools have enough clout to insist on being allowed to hire teacher with real degrees in real majors), a group morover consisting overwhelmingly of people who chose the college or university major because it was the easiest one, where they could take 3-credits in using AV equipment, weren't forced to learn to write well, take any serious mathematics or science, or really learn much of anything to get a Bachelor's degree. (I see the wretched students in my classes when I teach lower division mathematics courses, and with a few shining exceptions they are terrible almost to the point of being uneducable at the university level.)

[Dan from Michigan]

WTF has Johnny done for education?

The NEA sucks.

[dfwgator]

And in a related story, water is wet!

[The Great RJ]

I'm saddened...deeply saddened..a real shock </sarcasm

[Antoninus]

Sun rises in east. Michael Moore still fat.