Posted on 07/16/2019 8:03:40 AM PDT by Maudeen
The first weekend in July, the National Education Association (NEA) held its annual Representative Assembly in Houston, an assembly consisting of “nearly 7,000 delegates.” The National Education Association is a “progressive” political activist organization that masquerades—er, I mean, identifies as an educational organization. . . . . . . .
Read these “New Business Items” just passed by the NEA, and see if you believe the NEA honors its Code of Ethics:
•“The NEA vigorously opposes all attacks on the right to choose and stands on the fundamental right to abortion under Roe v. Wade.”
•“The NEA will immediately call on the Trump administration, U.S. Senate, the House of Representatives, and the courts, for the immediate end to the detention and criminalization of immigrant children and their families; including an end to ICE raids.”
•“The NEA will call on the U.S. government to accept responsibility for the destabilization of Central American countries (including, but not limited to Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua), and that this destabilization is a root cause of the recent increase of asylum seekers in the United States.”
•“NEA will collaborate and partner with organizations and individuals who are doing the work to push reparations for descendants of enslaved Africans in the United States.”
Note: the list goes on . . .and on . . .
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What does any of that have to do with “educating”?
Did the NEA discuss say reading, writing, arithmetic etc. for the children?
Naw...
National Indoctrination Association
The NEA is an organization that has needed to be disbanded for decades. Education is a local issue.
Sure, our country was founded on the idea that we needed a well educated population. It was also founded on the idea that we needed all the warm bodies we could get, meaning we promoted immigration.
But we are in different times. Both those ships have sailed. They are both runaway successes (to a fault) and no FedGov involvement is necessary.
They are marxists. Connect the dots.
Defund the teacher’s union. Vote NO on every school millage.
Hit those bastards where they live, no more taxpayer money to pubic schools. Vouchers is the only sane way to fund education.
For those who may miss the rhetorical nature of your question: most likely everything, since it is a platform for its members which obviously includes those at the local level.
This ought to be vigorously rejected by parents across the nation.
And rejected by taxpayers as well.
Absolutely. Problem is, most have no idea.
And yet many right-leaning teachers (including sadly some family members) continue to vote in lockstep with them in the name of preserving tenure, benefits and pensions.
“...The NEA is an organization that has needed to be disbanded for decades. Education is a local issue....”
Agree fully.
The NEA is nothing but the “de-education” subsidiary of the UniParty and has been for a long time. It’s a brain-washing, propaganda machine for UniParty.
GOPe = RAT = UniParty = Deep State = Communist.
To add injury to insult, most NEA affiliates are openly defying the SCOTUS’s Janus decision.
The affiliates are claiming—despite a ruling to the contrary—that their members are not allowed to opt out of membership and dues (or “fair-share”) payments except during a narrow window of about 7 - 14 days every 3 - 5 years whenever a new contract is ratified.
The whole list...
“Wait Till You See What the National Education Association Is Up To
Written By Laurie Higgins | 07.16.19
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The first weekend in July, the National Education Association (NEA) held its annual Representative Assembly in Houston, an assembly consisting of “nearly 7,000 delegates.” The National Education Association is a “progressive” political activist organization that masquerades—er, I mean, identifies as an educational organization. The NEA’s Code of Ethics says, among other things, this:
The educator… recognizes the supreme importance of the pursuit of truth, devotion to excellence, and the nurture of the democratic principles. Essential to these goals is the protection of freedom to learn…. The educator therefore works to stimulate the spirit of inquiry, the acquisition of knowledge and understanding, and the thoughtful formulation of worthy goals. In fulfillment of the obligation to the student, the educator… Shall not unreasonably deny the student’s access to varying points of view.
Read these “New Business Items” just passed by the NEA, and see if you believe the NEA honors its Code of Ethics:
“The NEA vigorously opposes all attacks on the right to choose and stands on the fundamental right to abortion under Roe v. Wade.”
“The NEA will immediately call on the Trump administration, U.S. Senate, the House of Representatives, and the courts, for the immediate end to the detention and criminalization of immigrant children and their families; including an end to ICE raids.”
“The NEA will call on the U.S. government to accept responsibility for the destabilization of Central American countries (including, but not limited to Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua), and that this destabilization is a root cause of the recent increase of asylum seekers in the United States.”
“NEA will collaborate and partner with organizations and individuals who are doing the work to push reparations for descendants of enslaved Africans in the United States.”
“The National Education Association will organize and mobilize in support of the Equality Act to be a top legislative priority.”
“NEA will incorporate the concept of ‘White Fragility’ into NEA trainings/staff development, literature, and other existing communications on social, gender, LGBTQIA, and racial justice.” (“White fragility” is a racist leftist term invented to mock, criticize, and silence colorless people who disagree with the assumptions of Critical Race Theory. The term embodies the false idea that disagreement with the racist views of social justice warriors is motivated by fear.)
NEA “… will recommend specific annual numeric goals for the recruitment of, and retention of, educators of color.” (In other words, the NEA will judge educators by the color of their skin.)
“NEA will promote the Black Lives Matter Week of Action in schools during Black History Month in 2020…. NEA will specifically call for clear efforts to demonstrate support for the four demands of the BLM Week of Action in schools” which include “Mandating that Ethnic Studies be taught in preK-12 schools.”
The National Education Association will create space in all individuals’ name tags, badges, and IDs for the individuals’ pronouns. The individuals’ pronouns will only be left off at the individual’s request.”
“The NEA will contact all school districts… to recommend incorporating into their science curriculum, causes, effects, and solutions to climate change and pollution.”
“NEA will work with current partners (such as GLSEN), to expand on the number of professional development opportunities for Gender Sexuality Alliances (GSA) advisors. This training should include, at a minimum: Starting a new GSA; How to handle possible backlash from different stakeholders.”
“NEA will create model legislative language that state affiliates can use to lobby for a K-12 cross content curriculum that is LGBTQ+ inclusive.” (It’s bad enough that K-12 classes teach about homosexuality and cross-sex impersonation in health, sex-ed, and purported “anti-bullying” activities, but now they want indoctrination in the “LGBTQ+” ideology to permeate all content areas.)
“[T]he National Education Association will explore the opportunity to create a Stonewall LGBTQ Scholarship for tuition assistance to an openly LGBTQ student attending graduate school who demonstrates a commitment to research and practice surrounding LGBTQ issues and awareness in our schools. This would be a tribute to the Stonewall riots.”
“NEA will… call on educators to refrain from discouraging… students to not speak a language other than English at school.”
“The NEA will publicize… a 100 percent student loan forgiveness program for educators… across the country.”
One interesting membership change was passed as well. Two-thirds of the delegates “voted to amend the national teachers’ union’s constitution” to allow “non-educators” to become members, which in turn allows them to “donate to the NEA’s political action committee.” Such “public education allies” won’t “be able to vote, nominate candidates for elected office, or hold governance positions within the union.” They’ll only be able to donate money, thereby strengthening the power of “progressives” within the NEA. If by becoming members, non-educators could vote and nominate candidates, conservatives would have reason to join, because membership might enable them to weaken the power of “progressives” within the NEA. But if membership entitles non-educators only to donate money, the effect will be to strengthen the existing power structure.
The NEA is not an educational organization. It is not an organization committed to the full, free, and critical examination of diverse ideas. It’s a Leftist, political advocacy organization led by presumptuous culturally regressive dogmatists who have arrogated to themselves the right to use government schools to impose their arguable assumptions/worldview on other people’s children. The NEA and its ideological allies have transformed education into indoctrination.
Teachers call themselves “educators”. They don’t like the term “teacher” anymore.
Take that anyway you want, but it seems like they consider themselves “indoctrinators” rather than fountains of learning.
JMO.
WOW! Simply WOW!
Schools are already leftist indoctrination camps, these take it to a whole new level.
NEA until 1968 published The American Citizens Handbook. Bought the rights from 4H in 1941. Then, they got infiltrated and went socialist. They buried the last 10,000 or so copies in a NY landfill in the late 1960’s.
What pubic school teachers used to support:
http://www.shipofstate.com/books/AmericanCitizensHandbook/AmericanCitizensHandbook.htm
Domestic Enemy #1: Attorneys (become nudges and politicians making unAmerican, unconstitutional laws and regulations).
Domestic Enemy #2: Pubic school teachers (unAmerican, unChristian indoctrinators of our children).
Domestic Enemy #3: MSM (unAmerican, unChristian indoctrinators of all people).
losing members... thats what they are doing. Education has nothing to do with... this. WHy would you be a member of an organization who is not following what its supposed to be doing. I’m going to join a shooting club where all the members play cribbage all day every day and never send a round downrange once. Brilliant.
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