Now why is this of concern to conservatives? I'm sure no conservative would be absent-minded enough to leave their kid in a classroom governed by a dues-paying NEA educator who answers to a dues-paying NEA principle and NEA-backed local school board members, right?
I mean, all of those wacky NEA principles & resolutions & beliefs don't intersect into the classroom...do...they???
Hello Colofornian and all!
Sissy Jochmann told me about you guys, she is watching the thread but I guess hasn't registered. I am a friend of hers who, along with a few others, helped her prepare for this stand in NEA. In answer to your question about NEA stuff intersecting in to the classroom, it can be rare but certain organizations need watch-dogging: Check this out:
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This brave public school teacher in MASS was not an NEA member (joined Christian Educators union mentioned above) but her article illustrates how important it is to keep an eye on these groups. Parents can help a TON!! They need to watch public libraries for pro-gay stuff in children's books. They may not succed in demanding the books be removed, but they can force the library to accept books representing the opposite view (that homosexuals can change). Here is an organization that specifically helps with those efforts:
http://www.pfox.com There are a lot of public school teachers who pay union dues and don't agree with the NEA (now joined with AFT). But they seem to be asleep. Or if they go as delegates, they are afraid to shout their opinion, just like one might hesitate to yell for the Lakers while sitting in a Bull's game in Chicago! Had they been involved for the last 30 years, sitting on the delegates floor to shout "yea" and "nay" and the right times, putting forth better policy, we wouldn't be looking at the same union today. I hate to say it, but it's true. Too many have been asleep. If we were to scare up 4,000 conservatives for next year's NEA convention (first week of July in DC), we could shock the socks off of NEA and start to reverse some of its lethal direction.