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Teachers union plays clean up after claiming educators 'know better than anyone' what kids need
Fox News ^ | Nov 14, 2022 | Kelsey Koberg

Posted on 11/14/2022 5:53:46 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?

The National Education Association (NEA) appears to be playing clean-up after a tweet Saturday drew harsh criticism for claiming that educators "know better than anyone" what students need.

The NEA, one of the largest teachers unions in the United States, later turned off replies to the tweet, but not before 5,000 people responded, including former education secretary Betsy DeVos, who simply stated "You misspelled parents."

The National Education Association took issue with DeVos’ tweet, and noted the role of parents in shaping their children’s education.

"Together, families and educators are an essential team for advocating for the resources and opportunities all students need. Out-of-touch billionaires, however, are not," the teachers union responded to DeVos' tweet.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: education; nea; parents; teachersunions
All your kids belong to us. Parents have no say. The Government knows best.
1 posted on 11/14/2022 5:53:46 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
Educators are experts (theoretically, anyway...) on how to teach. They are no more expert than anyone else when it comes to what kids should be taught.
2 posted on 11/14/2022 5:59:17 PM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
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3 posted on 11/14/2022 5:59:21 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true . . . I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

DING! DING! DING!

We have a winner!!


4 posted on 11/14/2022 6:09:19 PM PST by ExTxMarine (Diversity is necessary; diverse points of views will not be tolerated.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
NEA is a Parent Trap.
5 posted on 11/14/2022 6:17:44 PM PST by bunkerhill7 (t)
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Look.... this is easy, teachers do not teach anymore they are basically facilitators and anybody who has been in organizations during the quality management years knows what facilitators do. They facilitate meetings.

The “meeting” is the classroom, the subject matter is based on a curricula that is pre-printed and packaged.

Any person with a semblance of training and a bit of experience can run that classroom.

In effect they’re not teaching they’re running a classroom they’re supervising that’s all.

Put some military trainers out there and they could do a much better job with the subject matter. Simple to difficult, drill drill drill and test, drill drill drill and test.


6 posted on 11/14/2022 6:22:38 PM PST by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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“Together, families and educators are an essential team for advocating for the resources and opportunities all students need.

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Couldn’t tell by the way your academic ilk and rogue DOJ and fbi conduct themselves .

We haven’t forgotten
We will never forget

We will never trust any of you ever again

Parents will be up your nethers from now till the end of time.


7 posted on 11/14/2022 6:26:54 PM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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Outlaw public unions.


8 posted on 11/14/2022 6:41:22 PM PST by VRW Conspirator (Socialism should more accurately be called Sociopathism)
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THE GOVERNMENT DOES NOT CO-PARENT OUR KIDS.


9 posted on 11/15/2022 10:44:22 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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