These Are Your Teachers?

WorldNetDaily ^ | July 14, 2005 | Joseph Farah

[FFforFreedom]

The National Education Association recently concluded its annual meeting in Los Angeles - and you might be surprised what the largest teachers' union in America talked about and decided.

[Jen from Tn.]

I know exactly what goes on in these meetings. I use to be a member before I stopped drinking the kool-aid.Very scary.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

Every FReeper involved with education should know about National Right To Work.

http://www.NRTW.org

[martin_fierro]

I use to be a member before I stopped drinking the kool-aid.

And now you can't even drink the Gallo wine!

Buncha drunk teachers at a convention. Now there's a sight.

[xcamel]

It is not now, nor has it ever been "Public Education"

It is:
Government indoctrination
Union brainwashing
Pretzel logic
Encouragement of perversion
Schooling in emotionalism
Prep school for dependence on government
Revision of historical facts

Need I go on?

[Uncle Vlad]

NEA = National Extortion Association

[FFforFreedom]

Good suggestion. I'm a Fire Fighter involved in fighting union abuse. I've had dealings with the National Right to Work Foundation. Very good organization.

If interested search NRTW Foundation and you should go right to it folks.

[GSlob]

I could envision it: a member is proposing any of two resolutions "To fight indoor air pollution" while out-gassing unmercifully and putting all the others within 20 feet (more downwind) out of commission. At the end of the presentation the potted cactus on the podium is hopelessly wilted.

[ChildOfThe60s]

My daughter was home schooled.
Guess why the NEA is against home schooling.

[FFforFreedom]

Same way I feel about the Fire Fighters union.

[FFforFreedom]

Very Nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sierrahome]

My grade school years were in the mid sixties and every Monday morning the principal played the Lord's Prayer over the PA--we stood and said the Pledge of Allegiance every morning. My school was probably very similar to most with some great teachers and the one time there was a strike there was only one teacher on the picket line. We knew our teachers really cared about us and it was known that there was a weekly prayer meeting in the teachers lounge.

[spinestein]

There are some real gems of stupidity here.

[To push for more collective bargaining]
Teachers complain the loudest about how they are underpaid. If teachers were paid according to their individual worth instead of collectively, they'd find that the best teachers would be making a lot more money (at the expense of the crappy ones, a win-win situation).

[To defend affirmative action and oppose the Michigan Civil Rights Amendment]
Affirmative Action is nothing more than racism based on good intentions.

[To oppose all forms of privatization]
This is just plain communism and it's embarrassing that people still profess support for this.

[To fight the "regressive taxation practices of the federal government"]
Anyone who thinks that federal tax rates are "regressive" is not competent to be in charge of a game of pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey much less running a teachers meeting.

[To teach children about the "significant history of labor unions"]
Yo, spend more time teaching them math, science, reading and writing, and the history of the founding of this country and the important constitutional principles it's based on, rather than union propaganda.

[To develop a comprehensive strategy of support for homosexuality]
WOW!

[sierrahome]

That's Brilliant...sadly, totally true.

[the_Watchman]

Does anyone know what Gallo did to get up their ire?

[Freedom of Speech Wins]

Curious here, seriously, why are they boycotting Gallo wine?

[hardworking]

Need I go on?

You forgot Communist boot camp

[DesertDreamer]

I don't know, but now I have a definite urge to go out a buy a box. ;^)

[xcamel]

Just damn.

[Junior_G]

I'm drinking the Gallo as I read this. No idea why the loony left teachers' union hates it, but it's a good cheap buzz!