Shades of Red China! ( proudofthesouth )
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Parents did **not** put Weingarten where she is. Legislators didn't either. Voters had nothing to do with it.
Only ***ONE** group of people is **completely** responsible for Weingarten being elected to head the NEA! Those people are **TEACHERS**!!!!
We are supposed to respect and support teachers for doing this? We are to treat them like they were self-sacrificing Mother Teresas? I don't think so.
Now....For posting the above **obvious** FACT, I will be called a teacher basher. Well, government school defenders...Flame Away!
I remember a few years ago, I believe it was the head of the NY Teachers Union got asked a basic math question, and she had no clue. They’re not even educators, they’re hacks. I’d think the head of a teachers union should be darn educated, at least be capable of substitute teaching through high school grades.
This program sounds a bit like what your solution for failing schools filled with children from disfunctional families...replace the disfunctional families...keep the kids off the street with extended day and/or year as the KIPP schools do.
I agree that teachers elected Randi Weingarten, but feel the need to point out that only teachers who are members of the NEA did so — in many states, teachers belong to the NEA only because they are required to do so as a condition of employment.
Some teachers who are required to join the union (including some FReeper teachers!) are fighting the NEA’s liberal agenda, and in states such as mine, many teachers do not belong to the NEA because we aren’t required to and we disagree with its positions.
Only ***ONE** group of people is **completely** responsible for Weingarten being elected to head the NEA!
While I do not deny the many similarities between the two groups, the AFT is NOT the NEA.
That you are willing to make such an obvious mistake, in regard to an article YOU posted leaves me shaking my head. I do not believe you would permit one of your so-called "government school defenders" to slide on such an obvious error.