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I've just never seen them sitting across from the schools administration in contract talks.
Maybe they do somewhere.
Me either...not in Virginia.
They lobby for teachers and that is all. Every group has lobbyists, that's how our political system works.
A lot of Virginia teachers join for the benefits...discounts on lots of stuff, cheap professional liability insurance, legal representation, etc. It's worth the 30 bucks or so a month to a lot of people.
A lot of Virginia teachers join for the benefits...discounts on lots of stuff, cheap professional liability insurance, legal representation, etc. It's worth the 30 bucks or so a month to a lot of people.
Or maybe for the copy of Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" that they promote on their website.
I see that you didn't see the same thing on the Big Government link a while back there. I would say that you don't mind this kind of crap being taught in our elementary schools.
Not accusing you, because I don't think you are young enough, but I do think that we have some younger people posting here who have been exposed to crap like that in elementary school.
NEA - Virginia (http://www.nea.org/home/3733.htm - broken link)
The Virginia Education Association is affiliated with the NEA. VEA - Virginia Education Association
That is what makes me wonder about this being in Virginia. As long as the NEA is involved you have union representing the teachers in a state. My wife kept her membership in NEA even after I dropped the slobs for giving money to Carter illegally in that sad year. I demanded my money back from them since they didn't ask the membership for permission to give him money to campaign on. That was the beginning of the end for education since Carter promised them a Secretary of Education and one of his first tricks was to have that place created.
The NEA is leaning so hard left that I wonder just how they can continue. They did have an outstanding protection for teachers in case of one of those sad suits for treating kids wrong, no matter what they did.
...The NEA is leaning so hard left that I wonder just how they can continue. They did have an outstanding protection for teachers in case of one of those sad suits for treating kids wrong, no matter what they did.
Like I said, that's the reason that most Virginia teachers join NEA...I'm talking about the ones that do join, many do not. It's the cheap legal protection.
They'd sure never make it as a union in Virginia. Every year for 3 or 4 years, they have asked for a COLA for teachers and every year the school board has said NO. End of story. Who would pay dues for that?
Well, the school district is defending this indoctrination. They are sticking with their story that the eight year old children wrote these lyrics, themselves.
"But despite the backlash, Albermale County school district is standing behind the song, claiming the children chose and wrote the lyrics themselves."
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