Posted on 12/29/2009 3:37:09 PM PST by Korah
I am always amazed how liberals always seem to deny that which they support. Often times they will go so far as to state that the organizations they support only care about the good of society. Take the NEA and what they support for instance. I have heard liberals claim that the NEA only uses their member union dues to support education initiative drives across the nation, and that the dues are not used to support federal legislation in Washington. Well, it is time to open the eyes of the blind and shine the light of truth on what the NEA supports. Fact is, besides being heavily involved in supplying campaign cash for numerous politicians across this country that eventually end up in Washington, the NEA also supplies lobbyists to persuade Washington politicians to vote for an agenda that has very little to do with education. Could someone please explain to me what does education have to do with the resolutions that were overwhelmingly agreed to at this years NEA meeting in San Diego on July 1-6 2009?
Allow me to first inform you that the NEA does NOT care about the children. Not my words, but the words of the retiring General Counsel of the NEA, Bob Chanin. This is a quote from his farewell speech to the union members at their summer meeting. A speech that received a standing ovation from the delegates. In a response to the attacks that the NEA receives from conservatives, Chanin states that "the right-wing b****rds" pick on the NEA because, "they are the nations leading advocate for a liberal social, and economic agenda." Chanin goes on to explain exactly what makes them effective.
"We are effective, not because of our creative ideas, it is not because of the merit of our positions, it is not because we care about children, and it is not because we have a vision of a great public school for every child. NEA and its affiliates are effective advocates because we have power .........we have power because there are more than 3.2 million people who are willing to pay us hundreds of millions of dollars in dues each year"
(this is an excerpt) Follow this link to continue reading, "The NEA, Does NOT Care About Education", and to see
the agenda, NEA delegates voted to support.
If anyone has a Private Schooling ping list you might want to alert them.
I wonder if the author was taught by a member of the NEA on, how to, use commas.
Or apostrophes.
A.) Abortion
NEA delegates voted 69-31 to reject an amendment stating the union had “no position” on abortion, which would have invalidated a resolution professing the group’s support for “family planning, including the right to reproductive freedom.” While the NEA technically holds a “neutral” position on abortion, this amounts to promoting abortion.
B.) Immigration
The NEA supports immigration “reform” that “includes (note: this is a change from last year’s verb “may include”) a path to permanent residency, citizenship, or asylum” for illegal immigrants.
C.) Same Sex Marriage
Despite protests that the group’s involvement in same-sex “marriage” was causing a loss in membership, delegates at the meeting adopted an action plan strengthening the NEA’s support of homosexuality with a vow to support same-sex “marriage” or civil union legislation.
Specifically, the resolution stated the group would support the enactment of same-sex “marriage” laws, and fight both state and federal constitutional or statutory provisions defining marriage as between a man and a woman by using money received from union dues along with in classroom litterateur to persuade students of the benefit of same sex marriage in America.
D.) Gay Rights Agenda
The NEA passed at least a dozen resolutions supporting the “gay rights agenda” in public schools. These cover employment, curricula, textbooks, resource and instructional materials, school activities, role models, and language, with frequent use of terms such as sexual orientation, gender identification, and homophobia.
E.) Sex Education
The public school must assume an increasingly important role in providing sex education and that the instructors must be legally protected from censorship and lawsuits.
F.) Nationalized Health Care
On the critical issue of health care, NEA delegates voted to “zealously advocate for national health care reform,” stressing the urgency of quality, comprehensive, affordable health care for all that includes a public health care plan options, not just for the United States, but also for the inclusion of its territories, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
G.) Minimum Wage Increases (that effects only women not men at the Federal & State levels)
Wage control so the government can arbitrarily raise the pay of women but not men, the feminist pork called the Women’s Educational Equity Act, and letting feminists rewrite textbooks to conform to feminist ideology.
H.) Hate Crime legislation
The NEA supports a beefed-up federal hate crimes law with heavier penalties. The NEA wants federal legislation to confer special rights on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity and expression.
I.) United Nations Treaty Initiatives
The NEA supports United Nations treaties, especially the U.N. Convention on Women, the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the International Court of Justice and that the United States should ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and recognize and support its authority and jurisdiction. Global education, which promotes world citizenship that would require the taxation of American citizens to fund Third World countries.
J.) Global Warming education and World Treaties that would cripple the American Economy
The NEA voted to support unproven environmental education, which teaches that human activity is generally harmful to the environment and population should be reduced. Also the initiative refuses to equally support any proven facts that refute the idea that man can effect the climate of the the world.
K.) Gun Restriction Legislation
The Association believes that strict prescriptive regulations are necessary for the manufacture, importation, distribution, sale and resale of handguns and ammunition magazines. A mandatory background check and a mandatory waiting period should occur prior to the sale of all firearms.
L.) Here are some of the political ideas the NEA members voted to fight against by using Union dues and educational littérateur for the classroom so that they can indoctrinate the next generation
1.) Vouchers to help poor families send their children to private schools in high crime ridden areas where the children cannot learn
2.) Tuition tax credits for parents who already send their children to private schools
3.) Parental choice programs that would educate children about alternatives to abortion and sex, like adoption and abstinence
4.) Making English the official language of the U.S. so that non English speaking students can get a fair chance at better paying jobs when they graduate
5.) The use of voter identification for elections so that voter fraud can be stopped (as in non citizens will not be able to vote)
6.)Privatization of Social Security so that Americans can actually be assured that SS will be around when they retire, and that black families will not lose their fathers SS because he died before the age of reimbursement.
Again I ask you. What does all these items have to do with the education of the children?
The rest of the title should read “... And never has.”
Revoke their tax exemption.
‘Education’ is a brilliantly devised liberal nuance for ‘indoctrination’. (Brilliant, absolutely brilliant, intellectual, intelligent and really, really, really brilliant. Herr Goebbles would be proud.)
(Liberals are really, really brilliant you know.)
/S/
IMHO
......”we have power because there are more than 3.2 million people who are willing to pay us hundreds of millions of dollars in dues each year”.......
Willing or coerced???
The only response required to the title is...”No Duh!”
Why is anyone surprised. The NEA is a TEACHERS UNION. It exists to get the best deal for its members who are teachers. There are no students in the NEA, so the students are not part of their calculus when making decisions.
And just what does does the agenda the NEA supports have to do with getting the best deal for the Teachers? Last time I looked global warming, same sex marriage, United Nations Treaties etc. etc. etc. have nothing to do with Teachers salaries nor the guarantee of their employment.
That’s just their liberal-ness coming through. Of course, that stupidity is passed along to the students, but that isn’t HELPING the students at all. All of their legislative and lobbying efforts are geared toward doing the best for their own members, even though they claim they’re ‘for the children’.
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