Republican Teachers Uneasy at Obama-Themed Union Convention: Does NEA Represent All Teachers?
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The National Education Association (NEA) has 3.2 million members, which makes it America's largest professional employee union. The NEA had over 9,000 members attend its annual convention in Washington, D.C. from June 27 - July 5, 2012. According to reports, the convention looked like an Obama 2012 election headquarters, which made many of the teachers feel uncomfortable since they don't all support President Obama's re-election bid.
FoxNews.com described the event as follows:
NEA President Dennis Van Roekel had to stop the boos from the audience when a Republican teacher spoke at the convention. The Republican and non-Republicans who don't support Obama 2012 felt ostracized by their union, which collects dues from their paycheck.
"For Republican teachers, it's almost like we're stepchildren in NEA, and then in the Republican Party we're also stepchildren, because we're public schoolteachers, and that's not part of their focus," said Keiser, who teaches high school math in Long Beach, Calif.
The NEA lobbies the government on everything from taxpayer funding of education to school safety to teacher pay. The NEA has spent over $41 million since 1990 on lobbyists and campaign material with 93% of the money going to Democrats to defeat Republicans according to OpenSecrets.org.
FOXNEWS.COM reports:
FoxNews.com described the event as follows:
It had all the trappings of a re-election rally: thousands packing a convention center, Barack Obama T-shirts, videos celebrating the health care law, and a wall-size banner with encouraging messages to the incumbent president.
NEA President Dennis Van Roekel had to stop the boos from the audience when a Republican teacher spoke at the convention. The Republican and non-Republicans who don't support Obama 2012 felt ostracized by their union, which collects dues from their paycheck.
"For Republican teachers, it's almost like we're stepchildren in NEA, and then in the Republican Party we're also stepchildren, because we're public schoolteachers, and that's not part of their focus," said Keiser, who teaches high school math in Long Beach, Calif.
The NEA lobbies the government on everything from taxpayer funding of education to school safety to teacher pay. The NEA has spent over $41 million since 1990 on lobbyists and campaign material with 93% of the money going to Democrats to defeat Republicans according to OpenSecrets.org.
FOXNEWS.COM reports:
Republican teachers at the annual National Education Association convention said they felt pressure from union leaders and the rank-and-file to support President Obama's re-election.
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They feel its crazy to teach to a standard test
it was dumb in 1992. it was dumb when Bush signed it...
Common Core scares the bejeebies out of me...
NO union has 100% agreement on anything.
Now I know why our kids are so stupid .. With women like that corn head below teaching!
The NEA is a quasi-communistic regime that is interested in defending teachers and administrators from the wrath of parents as it becomes more and more apparent that "education" is not its goal.
The NEA wants access to our children's minds to train them into international citizens of the world - or in other words, useful idiots. They focus on co-operative learning which is code for group think.
They are feeding them the government controlled pablum of the "scientific community".
And they are forcing our children to subcum to the pressure of societal norming of the abnormal - in other words, anything but the basic family unit of father, mother and children together in a committed, long-term relationship.
Schools pound in to our kids that any behavior is to be accepted as normal because no one has the right to "judge" - that is unless you have religious conviction...then you are silenced, told to keep your opinion to yourself or simply downgraded for holding such opinions.
"Tolerance" is rampant - except when your views are Conservative. I'm sure you've heard about the teacher in NC who berated her student for asking about the incident in Obama's book where he pushed a girl down for making fun of him and compared that to Romney's supposed hazing incident in college. That student was told he could not "disrespect" the president" in her class and that anyone who does could be arrested. http://www.foxnews.com/politi... And let's not forget the "Mmmm, mmm, mmm...Barack Hussein Obama" chant some students were made to recite. http://www.youtube.com/watch?...
My daughter's friend asked her something about our religious beliefs during free time at school and she was answering the question when a teacher overheard them. That teacher st...
Schools pound in to our kids that any behavior is to be accepted as normal because no one has the right to "judge" - that is unless you have religious conviction...then you are silenced, told to keep your opinion to yourself or simply downgraded for holding such opinions.
"Tolerance" is rampant - except when your views are Conservative. I'm sure you've heard about the teacher in NC who berated her student for asking about the incident in Obama's book where he pushed a girl down for making fun of him and compared that to Romney's supposed hazing incident in college. That student was told he could not "disrespect" the president" in her class and that anyone who does could be arrested. http://www.foxnews.com/politi... And let's not forget the "Mmmm, mmm, mmm...Barack Hussein Obama" chant some students were made to recite. http://www.youtube.com/watch?...
My daughter's friend asked her something about our religious beliefs during free time at school and she was answering the question when a teacher overheard them. That teacher stopped the conversation saying "You can't proselyte while on campus". My daughter was answering a question posed to her!!!
Like I said - "tolerance" and f'reedom of speech" have selective application on federal property which means my kids are being taught "All animals are equal...some more equal than others".
Liberals do not know what "merit" means.