NEA to target Republicans in 2004

Back in 1984, when I wrote "NEA: Trojan Horse in American Education," my goal was to awaken conservatives and Republicans to the fact that the National Education Association had become a radical, leftist political organization using the Democrat Party to achieve its goals. For years, they had been using their extensive local influence to elect liberals and leftists to school boards, municipal governments, state legislatures, and the U.S. Congress.

Back in 1967, five years after the NEA had become a labor union, the NEA's executive secretary, Sam Lambert, made it very clear that the NEA was determined to become a powerful political machine rather than merely an organization of teachers devoted to improving education. He declared:

NEA will become a political power second to no other special interest group ... NEA will organize this profession from top to bottom into logical operational units that can move swiftly and effectively and with power unmatched by any other organized group in the nation.

And, indeed, his prediction became reality with the help of Uniserv, the association's full-time, unionized, political cadre.

Without the support of the NEA, it is doubtful that Bill Clinton would have been elected president in 1992, and re-elected for a second term. But they had the terrible taste of defeat in 2000 when George W. Bush won over Al Gore by just a few votes in Florida. They are now determined to never let that happen again. And so, they are gearing up for 2004.

The NEA is planning to target 16 states where the Democrat nominee for the presidency has a good chance of upsetting George W. Bush. The NEA is also planning to upset Republicans in 45 House races by recruiting candidates who they believe can win. This was spelled out to the delegates at their latest convention in New Orleans during the July 4 weekend.

Although about 30 percent of NEA members are Republicans, the delegates at the convention were, for the most part, the most radically leftist leaders of the organization. And they are pushing the leftist agenda, which includes full-day pre-kindergarten, gay rights in curriculum development and teacher hiring, comprehensive sexual health education, support for Title IX quota policies, national socialized medicine, multiculturalism, statehood for the District of Columbia, an Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution, etc.

And they are still anti-homeschooling, anti-vouchers and tuition tax credits, anti-English as the official language, pro-family planning – otherwise known as abortion – anti-school prayer, including moments of silence, pro joining the International Court of Justice. The NEA has always been a strong supporter of the United Nations and world government. It was instrumental in creating UNESCO as a future "World Board of Education." In 1946, Joy Elmer Morgan, editor of the NEA Journal, wrote:

In the struggle to establish an adequate world government, the teacher has many parts to play. He must begin with his own attitude and knowledge and purpose. He can do much to prepare the hearts and minds of children for global understanding and cooperation ... At the very top of all the agencies which will assure the coming of world government must stand the school, the teacher and the organized profession.

And while 57 years later, world government is still to be achieved in a conflict-ridden, discredited United Nations, the NEA is still betting on its becoming reality. Schools downplay patriotism as politically incorrect, nativist and exclusionary.

But perhaps the most dangerous of the NEA's latest policies is that concerning early childhood education. Their resolution on the subject reads:

The National Education Association supports early childhood education programs in public schools for children from birth [you read correctly!] through age eight. The Association also believes that early childhood education programs should include a full continuum of services for parents /guardians, and children, including child care, child development [including drugging with Ritalin and other mind-altering drugs], developmentally appropriate and diversity-based curricula [no doubt including the gay-rights agenda], special education [as a result of the deliberate dumbing-down process], and appropriate bias-free screening devices.

Naturally, all of this at taxpayer expense. The last thing any of us should want is for those behaviorist educator-psychologists to get hold of America's defenseless infants so they can be brainwashed as early as possible and turned into intellectual cripples before they can even speak their own language.

That resolution alone should make us all aware of the brave new world being planned by these malevolent utopians who call themselves educators. Neither the Nazis nor communists could have done better!

Nineteen years ago, it was obvious that the NEA would go from bad to worse. Their membership has increased greatly by including cafeteria workers, janitors, etc. And their budget for political mischief has grown enormously. Their defeat in 2000 has made them redouble their efforts to regain control of the two houses of Congress and the White House. Undoubtedly, the homeschool movement put a crimp in the NEA's political power. Thus, conservatives must do everything they can to make sure that the NEA monster is kept in its cage in 2004.

Dr. Samuel L. Blumenfeld is the author of eight books on education, including: "Is Public Education Necessary?" "NEA: Trojan Horse in American Education," "The Whole Language/OBE Fraud" and "Homeschooling: A Parents Guide to Teaching Children." His books are available on Amazon.com. Back issues of his incisive newsletter, The Blumenfeld Education Letter, are available online.

This is why every school levy must be opposed whenever they pop up on the ballot. State funding for public school should be reduced to match the quality of the "product" they are producing and federal funding for public schools MUST be eliminated. The beast is too big to be fought back in its current condition. The only way to beat it is to starve it to death....but this will NEVER happen. The soccer moms will vote to tripple their neighbors property taxes if the public schools threaten to cut soccer or football or other activities that the schools have no business engaging in in the first place. The three magic words that make their eyes glaze over and obediently do as they're told are "...for the children."

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