[G Larry]

Oh really?
What do you call the following agenda?

Promoting the gay lifestyle,
Promoting consequence free sex by providing access to birth control, abortion, and ‘how to’ sex classes,
Promoting population control,
Promoting the ‘global warming’ fraud,
Not allowing any mention of religion or the roll it played in the development of this nation,
Refusing to expell or suspend trouble makers from the classroom, because school funding depends on daily attendance totals,
Teaching political agendas in the classroom and pretending it’s based upon science,
Telling the students that their parents have no real authority over them and that the school will protect the students from punishment,
etc...
I could go on, but you’ll miss the point anyway.

[rb22982]

Refusing to expell or suspend trouble makers from the classroom, because school funding depends on daily attendance totals,

A friend of mine who went into teaching (briefly) started at on "OK" high school in my county. He had to teach math for 11th/12th graders below par for technical math. He was allowed to send kids to the principles office just THREE times all year! After 2 years of dealing with the administrative idiocy, he left for data analysis in the private industry.

[SALChamps03]

I believe it is you who is missing the point. At the school level teachers have no contact with the NEA. I personally have never discussed homosexuality with any student. I have never distributed birth control, or worked at any school where this has occurred.

As for population control, I can't even begin to imagine what you're talking about there, so I'll say no comment. As for global warming, I agree that it's a fraud and have written several newspaper articles discussing this fact. But, the theory of global warming is in textbooks and has to be covered, so I always present both sides and make it clear that I personally do not believe in global warming.

The reason that religion has played a smaller role in school is because of court rulings. Even if I believe prayer should be allowed, I can't break the law without losing my certificate.

However, the religious beliefs of the Founding Fathers and the first settlers is discussed in social studies, so you're incorrect about that.

I agree that troublemakers should be suspended, but if they are special ed students, they cannot be suspended for more than 10 days per school year, and not without holding a meeting to determine if their behavior is a manifestation of their special ed eligibility. That's federal law, not the NEA.

I am not sure which political agendas you are talking about that are passed off as science. You could be talking about evolution. If so, you can disagree with the theory of evolution, but also understand that Creationism is based in faith, not science.

As for telling the students that parents have no real authority over them, I can only say, What have you been smoking?

As I said, there are laws and court rulings that have had a much more profound effect on public education than the NEA.