I passed this on to several newspapers in Arkansas:
School used to be where a child learned "Reading, Writing, & Arithmetic"
Before all you parents celebrate too much about finally getting your children off to your neighborhood public school after the long hot summer ... realize just WHO will be in charge of filling their minds and what they will be filling them with!
The NEA Teachers Union convention this summer passed a proposal to "develop a comprehensive strategy" to deal with the attacks on gay curricula, policies and practices by what the NEA calls "extremist groups" (NEA's term for parents). A big victory to its large Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Caucus
Other resolutions passed by the NEA's 2005 convention:
1. boycott Wal-Mart
2. statehood for the District of Columbia
3. affirmative action
4. opposition to private accounts in Social Security
5. opposition to capital punishment
6. gun control
7. "single-payer health care" (i.e., socialized government medicine),
8. endorsement of the International Criminal Court and the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights.
9. promote all feminist goals, including abortion for minors and taking over the baby-sitting of children "from birth through age 8" whom the NEA wants to provide with "diversity-based (homosexual) curricula" and "bias-free screening devices."
Any education resolutions?
1. teaching of global, multicultural, suicide, environmental education.
2. home-schooled students should not participate in any extracurricular activities in the public schools
3. home-schooled students should be taught only by people who are "licensed" by the state and use a curriculum approved by the state
Somehow, resolutions about the need for improvement in the teaching of phonics or basic mathematics or sciences didn't make it.
It is the parents responsibility to find out first hand WHAT your children are being taught. You will be surprised - unpleasantly so.
Be involved!
http://www.gohotsprings.com/usa
Ding Ding Ding.
"home-schooled students should be taught only by people who are "licensed" by the state and use a curriculum approved by the state "
Over my dead body.
Interesting here in my state, you are required to homeschool 6 hours per day unless you are a certified teacher. If you are a state certified teacher, you are required to teach only 3 hours.
Is that 3 hours of promoting homosexuality???
"It is the parents responsibility to find out first hand WHAT your children are being taught. You will be surprised - unpleasantly so. ...Be involved! "
Thanks so much, Hombre_Sincero, for showing just how utterly Leftist the NEA has become. By the way, NEA came out early with a resolution to back Kerry in the last election -- no big surprise there -- and they actively denied the Parents and Friends of EX-Gays organization from presenting material at their last convention. They just don't want to hear that homosexualty can't be proved to be inborn.