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| The Teacher’s Union Strikes Again |
| 2003-09-18 |
| "What will your child learn about 9-11 on the second anniversary of the attack on America’s security and economy? On the occasion of the first anniversary of 9-11, the National Education Association urged teachers to not "suggest any group is responsible." In suggested lesson plans, the NEA recommended that teachers "discuss historical instances of American intolerance" as the lesson children in elementary, middle and high school should take away from the most dastardly attack on America since Pearl Harbor. The NEA is an American Fifth Column, an enemy within that uses our public schools to turn children against their nation." Alan Caruba |
| Posted by:Lynwood |
| #11 Just ask my son what they discussed on 9/11/03.He said not much at all the subject barley even came up.Not sure how to react,initial reaction is to be pissed for ignoring one of the pivitol events of the last 100 years. |
| Posted by: raptor 2003-9-19 9:45:36 AM |
| #10 BTW---My wife refuses to join the NEA, though she still has to pay some fees in liu of dues. They do not take care of their own people, only the high enders that like to feather their nests at the expense of new struggling teachers. Asshats! They need their tax exempt status yanked. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-9-18 6:31:58 PM |
| #9 We should re-classify the NEA (and its member organizations) as a |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2003-9-18 6:17:58 PM |
| #8 Not only are the schools not supposed to "suggest any group is responsible", but here no one even talked about it. The teachers that mentioned it at all were those against any sort of war or "interference with other countries." And of course theres a large of number of them that dislike Bush and everything he has ever done, and say so at any oppurtunity. The Principal came on the intercom and read something Bush said last year and ended with-"Please join me in a monent of silence" (insert one second here)"And now your announcements for today." Some people tried to bring it up in classes that afternoon, but the teacher just sat there and wouldn't say anything. Someone help me on this- What happens if teachers don't follow what the teachers union says? Do they even find out, or do they have to wait until someone comes whining to them? |
| Posted by: S 2003-9-18 6:06:23 PM |
| #7 Memo to Bush: Have a requirement of Federal Funding be that the school must teach THE TRUTH. |
| Posted by: Charles 2003-9-18 5:28:54 PM |
| #6 There is another, miore fundamental problem: these people are bing paid to teach not to indoctinate. If their teaching time is used for indoctrination then it is justice they refund their salaries to the tax payer (with interest, of course). If teaching is supposed to be secular, there is no reason it should not be apolitic. |
| Posted by: JFM 2003-9-18 4:04:17 PM |
| #5 I love it! Don't suggest any group is responsible for 9/11, but do show examples of American intolerance! It's okay to show a group is responsible for wrong doing if that group is Americans! We're the evildoers in the world, and anything bad that happens to us is just bad luck or comeuppance! |
| Posted by: Dar 2003-9-18 3:30:12 PM |
| #4 Oh yes... the NEA... Also known as the 'National Extortion Association'... "You *will* pay tribute to the Democratic party or you *will* lose your Job and not be able to work in your profession" (Policy of the Washington [state] Education Association - a branch of the NEA.) If this is not extortion I dont know what is. Yet they are allowed to get away with it because the legislature is so terrified of them and they are 'teachers'.... I'll be damn if I am going to subject my son to their socialist brainwashing. The NEA is *not* your friend. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2003-9-18 3:28:58 PM |
| #3 On the occasion of the first anniversary of 9-11, the National Education Association urged teachers to not "suggest any group is responsible. Haaahahahahahaa..... It was the fault of AA and United! It was Boeing's fault! But no, no "groups" are responsible. HAAAHAHAHAHAAAHAHAHAAAAAAA!!!!!!! |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-9-18 2:54:29 PM |
| #2 My wife is a school psychologist and she hears teachers bitching about us being in Iraq, our overreaction to 9-11, yadayadayada. They ask her what she thinks, and she sez: "What if you were threatened or attacked by a psychopath, a person who does not have the ability to empathize, who does not care about you? What would you do? Would you 1. Negotiate with them and hope for their better side? 2. Roll over and capitulate? 3. Defend yourself with your own weapons and call the police? I would pick number 3. And that is why we are going after terrorists all over the world. We have to end the threat of the psychopaths." |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-9-18 2:45:04 PM |
| #1 If you follow the links back to the National Association of School Psychologists you find some good ideas about tolerance and peace and not blaming the group for the actions of a few. IMHO that does not excuse the above. |
| Posted by: Lynwood 2003-9-18 2:23:56 PM |