Teachers union calls for defeat of Bush - "Fahrenheit 9/11" showing at convention

Washington Times ^ | July 5, 2004 | George Archibald

[Keith]

Modern education in America, especially "higher learning" institutions, have become liberal madrassas...

[Ciexyz]

Teachers at top step make over $70,000 a year in my area. No wonder they're part of the cycle of Democratic vote buying that drives property taxes so high that many people esp. seniors have to sell off their homes. Top union officials are part of the corruption chain. Break the education monopoly and lower property taxes.

[Congressman Billybob]

I've said before and say again, the National Edukashun Association is the greatest enemy of education and the future of this nation, that exists within our borders today. These people are wh*res, plain and simple. Their sole interest is the money that flows into their pockets -- both individual and union. The children be damned, the public be damned, the future be damned.

The fact that they are showing and implicitly praising Michael Moore's modern equivalent of Triumph of the Will is icing in the cake, if any be needed, that the NEA is both corrupt and dangerous. And I have a practical suggestion to approach that problem. FreeRepublic should make a special effort to invite into our discussions people who are public school teachers and who see the danger that the NEA represents to all of us.

Congressman Billybob

"Something Stupid This Way Comes"

[Congressman Billybob]

To the two of you, and all others like you,

As I suggested above, FreeRepublic ought to make a special effort to welcome teachers and families of teachers who see what is happening in public education and who oppose the schemes of the NEA, etc. I'll wager that if either of you, or both together, or with others you know, approached Jim Robinson with the request to create such a special effort, he would welcome it with open arms. And so would I as a 22 year veteran of mostly public education.

John / Billybob

[Eva]

The quality of public school education is inversely proportionate to the growth of the NEA.

[who knows what evil?]

Their teachers are probably incorporating it into the curriculum!

You can bank on that. You would drop dead at the number of "Clavelle for Governor" bumper stickers affixed to the rear of teachers' cars in the People's Republic of Vermont. In case you're not familiar with Clavelle; he is the former Mayor of Burlington...a "progressive" who makes Bernie Sanders look like Jesse Helms. These teachers, mostly women, fill the heads of Vermont children with socialist doctrine on a daily basis. This is CHILD ABUSE; plain and simple. These are young POW's of a ruthless education cartel which won't stop until they get every child they can their hands on under their control. I have seen signs popping up around Vermont pleading with conservatives to "Take Back Vermont". Cheaper Than Dirt is selling a lot of their product in Vermont as of late. Things are bubbling just below the surface. As far as I am concerned, nearly everything that has gone wrong with this country can be traced back to a teacher. Fie on them all; INCLUDING the conservative ones who won't organize and fight back.

[Mister Baredog]

Republicans have disputed the NEA's claims regarding underfunding of the Title I school program for low-income school districts, saying federal spending has increased 51 percent since Mr. Bush took office. Title I spending was $8.8 billion in the final Clinton administration budget and is $13.3 billion this year

WHY would an "educational organisation" like the NEA let FACTS get in the way of their LYING polityical agenda.

ANSWER: They wouldn't. Pass the barf bags please.

[who knows what evil?]

One of the best things we could do for this country (and the worst things for the Democrats) would be to eliminate public schools.

That is one of the primary goals of the "Free State Project" here in New Hampshire. Although I am not associated with them, I sure as h*ll support them on that particular issue.

[Peach]

Wow! You told it like it is---good for you.

Tammy Bruce's book The Death of Right and Wrong should be required reading for every parent with kids in school. The agenda that is being taught is downright scary. The leftist's are malignant narcissist according to Tammy...trying to work out THEIR problems on OUR kids.

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

In early May we had our local school board races. In the two positions where the union endorsed candidates they ran last. In one the guy ran 3rd out of three, in the other he ran 6th out of 5, trailing "under vote."

[kcat]

frightening was my first thought, then I remembered when my son who was a junior in high school came home a few months ago asking if I thought Iraq was becoming a new Vietnam. Gee, wonder where he got that thought. It opened up a great discussion. I pulled up number of troop deaths per day in Vietnam and compared them to Iraq. That was enlightening to him. I want to say that in no way dimenishes the sorrow of even one life lost - I just wanted to make one of several points to him.

Anyway, disgusting as this is, we can raise thinking, questioning young people. When they do it in the classroom it inspires others to think for themselves too. I've taught them to question their teachers if they need to, just be sure you back up what you say with facts and you will never be in trouble with me.

[who knows what evil?]

50% or more of all state budgets go toward public education.

Here's an exerpt from a proposal currently circulating in the New Hampshire legislature...

"Therefore let it further be resolved as our first step of improving our education system is to lower the percentage of all property taxes intended for education to ZERO allowing our inhabitants to purchase their OWN education from the more REASONABLY priced private education sources in their communities (this will LOWER property taxes by 60 to 75 percent in most New Hampshire communities)..."

I would LOVE to see this incorporated into an "education bill"...

[summer]

The announcement of the showing and the strongly anti-Bush tone of the convention brought grumbling from Republican members, who make up more than one-fourth of the union's total membership.

One such member, Sissy Jochmann from the Pennsylvania delegation, called the Moore film "vicious" and said she would publicly call for "a timeout" if union leaders and members continued "bullying us with all their anti-Bush and anti-Republican rhetoric."

The NEA seems to be doing it all it can to continue to turn off many of its members, and prevent new members from joining, because in reality, teachers do not all hold the same political views.

And while they chastise GW for being in a classroom promoting literacy to students during 911, they might want to reflect upon the fact that Clinton and Gore never set foot near a classroom throughout MonicaGate.

[Renegade]

I enjoy teaching . Its the idiots I have to deal with that causes all the problems . Sooo , I give them more problems than they can give me .. IMHO if you can teach you don't need all the methods courses they give you in college. What college did Socrates get a diploma from . I teach Science . A real SUBJECT." SCIENCE GIVITH AND SCIENCE TAKETH AWAY !!!"

[Renegade]

BTW Spiff, What do you do for work???

[Fzob]

The union is collaborating with the liberal organization MoveOn.org ..........."the largest mobilization for education ever"

An oxymoron if there ever was.

This really is an outrage.

[MEG33]

I applaud your actions and attitudes...I worry about the kids whose parents don't know history, don't interact with their children about what they are hearing from teachers...whether accurate or inaccurate.

I don't accuse all teachers of having the same agenda as the NEA...I just wonder if they could ever press for change in their union spokesmen.

[Spiff]

I enjoy teaching . Its the idiots I have to deal with that causes all the problems . Sooo , I give them more problems than they can give me .. IMHO if you can teach you don't need all the methods courses they give you in college. What college did Socrates get a diploma from . I teach Science . A real SUBJECT." SCIENCE GIVITH AND SCIENCE TAKETH AWAY !!!"

Quit the union. Teach science in a private school wherein a percentage of your paycheck is not invested in a leftist organization like the NEA. A portion of your pay is being spent to undermine America.

[Renegade]

BTW Spiff,Where do you work ??

[henbane]

[Our children] are young POW's of a ruthless education cartel which won't stop until every child they can get their hands on is under their control.

Absolutely correct.

Our kids are total prisoners in the culture war that is currently raging across the land.

And the Conservative teachers forced to cough up their $120+ each year to fund left-wing guns and ammo are "paycheck prisoners" in this war.

The NEA's back must be finacially broken to force a release of its iron grip from around the throats of our children. At least three a ctive fronts must be pursued: home schooling, local tax control limiting teacher's salary, and curriculum control by committees of parents--not teacher's.

The last two items will lead to NEA strikes and closed classrooms--but these threats must be faced down by the community--otherwise the war is a lost cause.

The current anti-Bush, pro-Moore frenzy at the NEA Convention illustrates the NEA's sickening arrogance of power. By cooking-up its radical left political bias right in the Public's face, the National Teachers Association smugly demonstrates that it's convinced it is presently winning the culture war in America.

And for the POW kids on the yellow busses, right now the war is over.