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Day after day, the National Education Association (NEA) sees the same statistics we do.
Plunging test scores. Floods of incoming college freshman who can’t read at even a sixth-grade level. Principals and school boards groping for incentives that will draw better teachers into lifelong service for high stress and infrequent appreciation.
Instead of embracing the joys of books and learning, America’s children are gorging junk food on the couch, dabbling with R-rated music videos and video games while their synapses run headlong down blind brain alleys.
Teacher morale remains low, as many grapple daily with parents who are disengaged and apathetic, neurotic or demanding, angry or eager to move their child into alternative educational settings.
Add to all that the professional pressures inherent in “No Child Left Behind,” and you can understand how the NEA leaders who gathered this summer in Orlando for their annual convention had their work cut out for them. The toughest question was undoubtedly the first one: where do we start, when it comes to fixing America’s schools?
Well, they figured it out. And, really, faced with so many incredible challenges, their priority makes sense. This is, after all, the NEA. They know the classroom. They know the teachers. They know the real challenges of education.
Which is why their elected leaders decided that, before anything else, the first thing our teachers have to do is win popular support for homosexual “marriage.” emphasis mine.
That’s right. The all-knowing members of the NEA decided that what our kids need to know – more than math, geography, grammar, science, or computer skills – is what men and men see in each other, why women and women fall in love, and what our government and society “owes” those who practice homosexual behavior.
Listen, when the world’s largest teacher’s union elects to endorse same-sex “marriage,” they’re not talking tacit support. They’re talking posters and projects, classroom lectures and guest speakers, testimonials and textbooks – at every grade level, and in every public school, in every school district in America.
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Years ago Forbes ran an huge cover expose of the "National Extortion Agency". At the time they said that one out of seven delegates to the Democrat Convention were NEA members.
Are your kids getting the education we're paying for?
***Update***
The NEA has issued a statement over this.
A smear campaign launched by the American Family Association asserted that the National Education Association was set to "endorse homosexual marriage" at the 2006 Representative Assembly.
Either the group is intentionally misleading the public, or didn’t bother to check their information, but NEA has no plans to endorse same sex marriage and never did. At the Representative Assembly in Orlando, FL, more than 9,000 educators tackled critical issues facing public schools, teachers and students. That included multiple proposals to clarify existing resolutions and address diversity, discrimination, and civil unions.
Frankly I'd like to know why they are addressing civil unions? Does that have anyhing to do with educating our children?