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:
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?
Some of those resoultions are SO WHAT?? while others I really, really, don't like (i.e. the support for homosexuality). However, the article does not say whether there were any OTHER statements. It did mention the ones it wanted to.