[Elsie]

Thousands of pro-life teachers and school staff required ? to belong to the National Education Association across the country are offended by the union's co-sponsorship of a pro-choice march in Washington this Sunday.

Required???

Just say

NO!!!

[Skooz]

My wife has been a teacher for 13 years, about half of that time in public schools. In some schools, the pressure to join the NEA is tremendous. Most of the teachers are little more than wind-up droids who spout whatever the NEA tells them to think and they despise anyone who would dare not tow the NEA line.

One particularly venomous automaton who found out that my wife had joined an alternative, Christian teachers union, spit out that no teacher should be allowed to work anywhere unless they join the the NEA.

[freemama]

In my state, if you choose not to join the NEA you still have to pay what they call fair share dues. They say it is for contract negotiation. It is the same amount of money as union dues. But if you join the union, you get union legal converage, and in these days of students and parents throwing around the threat of a law suit so quickly, thats quite valuable. Union teachers also have the option of submitting for refund of the portion of their dues used for PAC activities.