National Education Association
Annual meeting of the National Education Association Who’s mission is to focus on educating children? I was WRONG.
They are a political partisan association that looks after the teachers pocketbook at the expense of the students.
NEA is 2.7 million members working to provide great public schools.
False, 2.7 members to do less, get paid more, and work for a socialist utopia.
From their annual meeting notes of 92 items of new business, they had 5 or 6 items about actually teaching students, or improving teaching tools, depending on how strict you apply the term teaching. The rest of the items were about lining there pockets. Never about holding the school accountable for its performance.
This is some of the typical items they passed.
New Business Item 11
The NEA shall expand our nationwide plan to elect pro public education candidates to Congress in 2006 by sponsoring political training for members in targeted areas leading up to the election.
ADOPTED
Now who is opposed to education…wait, this is teacher Unions with no accountability…never mind.
Or this tax everyone but me mentality
New Business Item 16
In accord with the NEA Legislative Program, NEA shall develop and implement a communications plan to inform members of the dangers of proposed initiatives that:
- Repeal “pick-up” rules for employee contributions to state or local governmental retirement plans,
- require cafeteria plans and other salary reduction plan amounts be subject to FICA taxes, and
- require all state and local governments and their employees, without regard to their dates of hire or participation in a retirement system, to pay the Medicare payroll tax.
Further, NEA shall provide information to state affiliates and urge state affiliates to actively oppose these proposals.
ADOPTED AS MODIFIED
and just to make sure they keep themselves in a position of control.
New Business Item 29
I move that NEA emphasize collective bargaining and work to expand the number of states that have collective bargaining. NEA will also assist its state affiliates in collective bargaining states in educating their members about the importance of maintaining their NEA membership when they move to teach in school districts in states which do not have collective bargaining.
ADOPTED AS AMENDED
This is just sad
H/T to John at Carmichael Position.
