re: “The first statment is true, if and only if no federal money is accepted. Even then, the NEA has NATIONAL guidelines, and if they control your school board, you are under their leftist thumb.”
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The NEA is simply a leftist, lobbyist front group for the democrats. They are more interested in squeezing money from teachers and states through union dues and using the money to get democrats elected on every level of government.
The NEA doesn’t set curriculum guidelines or textbook guidelines - their influence is purely political in nature. The same is true for the local teacher’s unions. They lie and scare new teachers right out of college into believing that without the union’s liability insurance protection, they are at great risk in some kind of lawsuit.
This is changing because more and more teachers are opting out of the unions and getting liability insurance from other sources - such as the Christian Educators of America, Inc. The reason they are starting to “opt out” is because most teachers are conservative in their personal lives and they don’t like the political and moral stands the local unions and the NEA take on abortion, homosexuality, and always supporting democrats.
More and more teachers realize that the NEA cares nothing about the students, nor for the teachers. They want to promote their leftist, progressive agenda.
“The NEA doesn’t set curriculum guidelines or textbook guidelines - their influence is purely political in nature”
This may hold true where you are, but on the east coast, they control nearly everything, including curriculum.