These Are Your Teachers?

WorldNetDaily ^ | July 14, 2005 | Joseph Farah

[FFforFreedom]

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

These are your teachers?

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Posted: July 14, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

The National Education Association recently concluded its annual meeting in Los Angeles - and you might be surprised what the largest teachers' union in America talked about and decided.

I mean, let's face it. The state of public education in American today is not exactly state of the art. You might think falling test scores, higher drop-out rates, and functional illiteracy of graduates - despite ever increasing taxpayer commitments - would be causes for concern and debate at a forum like this.

You would be wrong. Here are some resolutions adopted by the representative assembly of the professional association responsible for educating your kids:

To participate in a national boycott of Wal-Mart (Two resolutions); To fight efforts to privatize Social Security (nine separate resolutions); To add the words "other" and "multi-ethnic" in addition to "unknown" in the category of ethnicity on all forms; To commemorate the "historic merger of the National Education Association and the American Teachers Association, which occurred in 1966"; To expose health problems associated with "fragrance chemicals"; (I assume this means perfumes. Another resolution called for designating areas of NEA meetings as "fragrance-free zones."); To fight indoor air pollution (two resolutions); To make health care an organizational priority; To expand efforts to elect pro-public education candidates to Congress in 2006; To promote the designation of April as National Donate Month to promote organ and tissue donation; To push for a commemorative stamp honoring public education; To push for more collective bargaining; To study the feasibility of a boycott of Gallo wine (A separate resolution banned the serving of Gallo wine at any NEA functions.); To develop a strategic program to help NEA Republican members advance a pro-public education agenda with the party; To defend affirmative action and oppose the Michigan Civil Rights Amendment; To oppose the annual observance of "Take Your Child to Work Day" during the regular school year; To oppose all forms of privatization; To investigate the establishment of affordable housing programs for members; To respond aggressively to any inappropriate use of the words "retarded" or "gay" in the media; To fight the "regressive taxation practices of the federal government"; To support education programs for prisoners and former prisoners; To support research on women and heart disease; To push for an "exit strategy to end the U.S. military occupation of Iraq"; To oppose the Central American Free Trade Agreement; To push for debt cancellation in underdeveloped countries; To teach children about the "significant history of labor unions"; To develop a comprehensive strategy of support for homosexuality; To educate the public and members about identity theft; To explore alternatives to using latex balloons and gloves at NEA functions. That's a fair synopsis of the actions taken by the largest "education" association in America - the only union and lobby group that is actually tax-exempt by an act of Congress.

What is peculiar about this list? Well, nothing if you are familiar with this thoroughly destructive organization. But, most people are not. Most Americans probably still think the National Education Association has something to do with education. It does not. It is a thoroughly politicized agit-prop group with a radical agenda.

Of the nearly 70 resolutions acted upon affirmatively by the group, no more than a half-dozen had anything remotely to do with classroom education.

The first 14 resolutions voted on had nothing whatsoever to do with education in the traditional sense.

However, one NEA resolution adopted this year did perform a real service to the public. It's the one requiring the organization to make its resolutions more accessible to the public on its website. Check it out for yourself.

Do I exaggerate? Is it time to review this activist organization's tax-exempt status? Is it time to start paying attention to the kind of indoctrination to which its members submit your children?

[FFforFreedom]

The National Education Association recently concluded its annual meeting in Los Angeles - and you might be surprised what the largest teachers' union in America talked about and decided.

[Jen from Tn.]

I know exactly what goes on in these meetings. I use to be a member before I stopped drinking the kool-aid.Very scary.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

Every FReeper involved with education should know about National Right To Work.

http://www.NRTW.org

[martin_fierro]

I use to be a member before I stopped drinking the kool-aid.

And now you can't even drink the Gallo wine!

Buncha drunk teachers at a convention. Now there's a sight.

[xcamel]

It is not now, nor has it ever been "Public Education"

It is:
Government indoctrination
Union brainwashing
Pretzel logic
Encouragement of perversion
Schooling in emotionalism
Prep school for dependence on government
Revision of historical facts

Need I go on?

[Uncle Vlad]

NEA = National Extortion Association

[FFforFreedom]

Good suggestion. I'm a Fire Fighter involved in fighting union abuse. I've had dealings with the National Right to Work Foundation. Very good organization.

If interested search NRTW Foundation and you should go right to it folks.

[GSlob]

I could envision it: a member is proposing any of two resolutions "To fight indoor air pollution" while out-gassing unmercifully and putting all the others within 20 feet (more downwind) out of commission. At the end of the presentation the potted cactus on the podium is hopelessly wilted.

[ChildOfThe60s]

My daughter was home schooled.
Guess why the NEA is against home schooling.

[FFforFreedom]

Same way I feel about the Fire Fighters union.

[FFforFreedom]

Very Nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sierrahome]

My grade school years were in the mid sixties and every Monday morning the principal played the Lord's Prayer over the PA--we stood and said the Pledge of Allegiance every morning. My school was probably very similar to most with some great teachers and the one time there was a strike there was only one teacher on the picket line. We knew our teachers really cared about us and it was known that there was a weekly prayer meeting in the teachers lounge.

[spinestein]

There are some real gems of stupidity here.

[To push for more collective bargaining]
Teachers complain the loudest about how they are underpaid. If teachers were paid according to their individual worth instead of collectively, they'd find that the best teachers would be making a lot more money (at the expense of the crappy ones, a win-win situation).

[To defend affirmative action and oppose the Michigan Civil Rights Amendment]
Affirmative Action is nothing more than racism based on good intentions.

[To oppose all forms of privatization]
This is just plain communism and it's embarrassing that people still profess support for this.

[To fight the "regressive taxation practices of the federal government"]
Anyone who thinks that federal tax rates are "regressive" is not competent to be in charge of a game of pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey much less running a teachers meeting.

[To teach children about the "significant history of labor unions"]
Yo, spend more time teaching them math, science, reading and writing, and the history of the founding of this country and the important constitutional principles it's based on, rather than union propaganda.

[To develop a comprehensive strategy of support for homosexuality]
WOW!

[sierrahome]

That's Brilliant...sadly, totally true.

[the_Watchman]

Does anyone know what Gallo did to get up their ire?

[Freedom of Speech Wins]

Curious here, seriously, why are they boycotting Gallo wine?

[hardworking]

Need I go on?

You forgot Communist boot camp

[DesertDreamer]

I don't know, but now I have a definite urge to go out a buy a box. ;^)

[xcamel]

Just damn.

[Junior_G]

I'm drinking the Gallo as I read this. No idea why the loony left teachers' union hates it, but it's a good cheap buzz!