I think we conservatives are overdue for declaring "war" on the NEA. We have witnessed the decline of our schools and the decimation of the curricula that was dedicated to teaching children the skills and knowledge that would help them succeed. We are seeing the results of over 40 years of sitting on our hands and letting them destroy the most important institution we have; our schools. The time has come to bring it to a close. As the NEA brings it attack dogs to bear on conservatives and conservative values, we should should loose ours on their leftist dogma. TAKE BACK THE SCHOOLS!!!!
There was an interesting and somewhat related thread posted today discussing "public" vs. "private" matters, Here's my post from that thread.:
This is exactly why I'm starting to believe that "public" schools are built on an inherently flawed premise. These institutions can never be truly "public".
Children have not fully formed the ability to analyze the merits of competing ideas and will always need some guidance and protection from subjects they are just not developmentally prepared to discuss. Therefore, the school and society must decide what beliefs are "acceptable" and, in doing so, are taking on the character of a private institution where speech can be constrained. Trying to combine the public sphere of freedom of speech and religious expression with the many individual private ideas concerning morality has created a hybrid institution which serves neither the public nor private interests.
This hybrid nature of public schools, being neither truly public nor private is sole reason why there are so many debates about prayer, discipline, sex education, and other ideas in schools. The shame of it is that all taxpayers, no matter which side of the debate they are on, are being forced to pay for the teaching of some ideals which they do not support.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/967175/posts Yes, so lets not just talk about it. Lets do something! Oh, what can we do?