Posted on 07/15/2010 6:38:30 AM PDT by IbJensen
The National Education Association (NEA) continues to alienate more and more of its conservative constituents as the organization showed its liberal leanings at its 2010 national convention.
At this year's meeting in New Orleans, the largest professional organization and labor union in the U.S. recognized a new caucus: the NEA Drag Queen Caucus. (See list of recognized NEA caucuses [PDF])
"They already have had the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, [and] Transgender Caucus and apparently felt that the drag queens needed their own caucus," explains Finn Laursen, executive director of Christian Educators Association International (CEAI).
Finn Laursen (CEAI)"America, I think, needs to respond and to realize what the National Education Association stands for; they're not hiding it. It's appalling to many of our conservative Christian educators who, in their own lives, could not support this kind of thing but find that their dues are being used to support just those kinds of thing," he adds.
Laursen also tells OneNewsNow there was a movement this year to see the NEA's pro-abortion stance changed to a more neutral position, but that effort failed. "The organization and its delegates were just unwilling to step back and take no position on abortion," he laments. "They're going to continue their pro-abortion stance."
The CEAI executive director shares that every year following the NEA convention, he sees a spike in interest towards his organization from people looking for an alternative. He says that after this year's event, his organization "even had to put in an extra phone line and bring in extra staff just to answer the phones."
(Excerpt) Read more at onenewsnow.com ...
Constituents of the NEA are NOT conservatives anymore than Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe are!
You can’t make this stuff up - the jokes write themseleves!
Brazen perverts.
Large segments of this country are coming more and more to look like an ongoing Monty Python skit.
That is not true. In many states teachers are required to join a union as a condition of employment.
Well....at least they’re not nudists,I guess.......
Seriously, what is most disturbing about this is that the NEA is “celebrating” a bunch of “teachers” based on what they are, and based on their sexuality, rather than celebrating a bunch of teachers who are outstanding because of their effective teaching methods. The NEA has nothing whatsoever to do with children, and teaching, and has just adopted the Dims’ identity politics agenda. The hell with the students, it’s all about the perverts in the teachers’ unions. No cred left whatsoever.
ACK ACK ACK!
Teacher Union Explains Their Priorities (It ain’t about the kids! Surprise!Surprise!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-piPkgAUo0w&feature=player_embedded
If you click through to the source document, you'll find a caucus called "No Cocktail Left Behind". /sarc
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"Despite what some among us would like to believe, it is not because of our creative ideas. It is not because of the merit of our positions. It is not because we care about children. And it is not because we have a vision of a great public school for every child. NEA and its affiliates are effective advocates because we have power. And we have power because there are more than 3.2 million people who are willing to pay us hundreds of millions of dollars in dues each year because they believe that we are the unions that can most effectively represent them, the unions that can protect their rights and advance their interests as education employees" ...National Education Association's just-retired General Counsel Bob Chanin. (The NEA is the Monroe County Association's parent body).
NEA General Counsel Bob Chanin Says Farewell:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-piPkgAUo0w&feature=player_embedded
As legendary New York teachers union leader Albert Shanker said, "When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of school children."
President Kennedy’s Executive Order 10998, allowing Federal unions, is what opened the door for public sector unions at the state and local level, which is leading to bankruptcy from bloated public sector salaries, benefits, and retirement plans. Businesses that offered plans like many governments have would go bankrupt. Gov’t entities will, too, eventually, but it will be much more painful.
All government unions should be banned. The idea that government workers need protection from guess who?? THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, is ridiculous. remember, teachers are government employees. Ban government unions.
"Despite what some among us would like to believe, it is not because of our creative ideas. It is not because of the merit of our positions. It is not because we care about children. And it is not because we have a vision of a great public school for every child."
"NEA and its affiliates are effective advocates because we have power. And we have power because there are more than 3.2 million people who are willing to pay us hundreds of millions of dollars in dues each year because they believe that we are the unions that can most effectively represent them, the unions that can protect their rights and advance their interests as education employees"
...National Education Association's just-retired General Counsel Bob Chanin. (The NEA is the Monroe County Association's parent body).
Seems a wonderful argument for returning control back to local communities.
This is a joke article, right?
I went to an NEA Drag Queen Caucus concert once. No wait that was NWA with Insane Clown Posse.
Understandable mistake.
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