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National Education Association

Jul 17th 2005MichaelPolitics

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.

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2 Responses to “National Education Association”

  1. John Carmichael on 18 Jul 2005 at 12:43 #

    The NEA is rapidly becoming (yeah right… already are…) another front for the “Moveon.org” crowd, and with position statements like these, are continuing to lose credibility in making logical policy arguments for the nations education systems.

    Blatant partisanship needs to be dramatically reduced in our education, from k-12 all the way through our secondary and advanced institutions.

    I along with the majority of Red State residents are quite fed up with the arrogant absolutism of political perspective represented by the NEA. I think for all future “Board of Education” elected officials we as a society need to take a hard look at membership in an organization like the NEA and exercise a litmus test of our own for whom we elect to said boards.

    How many “Soccer Moms” would not vote for a potential board member if learned the candidate was a member of the NRA, or John Birch society? Shouldn’t the same apply to the other end (left side) of the spectrum?

    I just find it unfortunate that most Americans will not take the time to learn first-hand the positions represented and endorsed by these organizations.

    BTW Loved your assesment– thanks for the mention.

    -JC

  2. Rob Mandel on 18 Jul 2005 at 13:52 #

    I am in the arena, and let me tell you, it’s a battle for sure. I have tons of stories I could tell you, but suffice to say, here’s the latest from my district. http://www.mandelinople.com/2005/07/beatings-have-begun.html
    We’re going to be receiving (nice term) “diversity training”. Oh boy, can’t wait. I also have highlighted textbook malfeasance here.

    It is pretty sickening what the NEA and other groups have done to public education. Well, at least I’m in there putting up the good fight.

    Cheers.