You are really not given a choice about the NEA. In most school districts where we have taught, a teacher attempting to quit the NEA will find themselves making a career change.
And that is at least one of the problems with unions as a whole. Seems like it should be a very easy thing to "sell" the idea to teachers - as a whole - that this is not in their best interests. The free competition for excellence in teaching with comensurate compensation would be a far better way to live and work, no?
But to "sell" the idea...the alternative has be be both achievable and realistic. If a teacher is in a place where the union hold all the cards and there are no other teaching opportunities....then the teacher is "stuck" or must change professions. Neither idea is appealing.
However, it would seem at least a plausible idea to sell the idea to teachers that by placing their confidence