[samtheman]

The NEA does not care about education or children. Organizational power is all that matters to them. They will block any action that threatens that power, even if it means making the kids suffer.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Yes. The NEA and local teachers' unions it's absorbing, are little more than a wing of the DNC political machine.

[trebb]

The NEA does not care about education or children.

So true - a few years ago, I saw a TV interview with the guy Clinton had in charge of education. When asked if he thought it was Ok to keep implementing the "alternative" teaching styles, which had a terrible record of not imparting knowledge to students, he said he thought it was also "important for teachers to self-actualize, so yes, it was a good thing to leave these methods in place even if it meant students didn't learn." This was on TV and I never heard any uproar...