Utterly Meaningless

I’ll take ‘teacher-in-training’ to mean ‘a teacher who is continually learning,’ so thanks for the compliment. I hope you get a chance to read an update on the subject here and continue the discussion.

I recently met some teachers (mabe in their 50s)who had no idea of the political activity level of the NEA. They were a little miffed that the NEA openly supported a candidate they were not personally in favor of but were totally unaware of the depth of politics practiced by the NEA with education indefinitely on the NEA back burner.

I told them about “Trojan Horse in American Education” and they seemed eager to read it.

I am curious, Johnathan. Were you previously aware this cultural tug of war existed? Have you discovered any new observations?

I wrote about unions a little bit here, where I talk about alternatives.

In principle, I don’t disagree with a union’s right to involve itself politically and endorse candidates, even if there are members who don’t support the candidates for ideological reasons. Companies and industries, too, may lobby in their self-interest (although that, in itself, is too complex an issue to discuss here) even when a majority of the employees political views lie elsewhere.

The problem I have with the NEA is the conflict of interests that it prefers to ignore. It is impossible to represent the interests of education in general, public school teachers, unionism, AND the organization itself. With so many conflicting interests, the lowest common denominator is representing the NEA for the sake of representing the NEA, with arguably disastrous effects on education.

Johnathan: I have studied cognitive science for over 20 years and didn’t discover that schooling does not equal education till I was in my 30’s. The picture is bigger than simply supporting a candidate. Here is a related post from last week:

“There are multiple books and articals on the subject including “Power Grab”, “Trojan Horse in American Education”, “Treason of the Educrats”, etc.

“In the book Power Grab, we find that the National Education Association (NEA) has sued teachers for revealing its political activities to their colleagues.” campus...?id=33

Here is a very common quote found when reading on this topic:

“The NEA’s Executive Secretary Sam Lambert said in 1967:

“NEA will become a political power second to no other special interest group… NEA will organize this profession from top to bottom into logical operational units that can move swiftly and effectively with power unmatched by any other organized group in the nation.” ”

Here is a quote from an artical “Compulsory Education
ARE OUR “SCHOOLS” CONCENTRATION CAMPUSES FOR MIND DESTRUCTION?”

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“Every child in America entering school at the age of five is insane because he comes to school with certain allegiances toward our founding fathers, toward our elected officials, toward his parents, toward a belief in a supernatural being, toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity. It’s up to you as teachers to make all of these sick children well, by creating the international children of the future.”

Dr. C.M. Pierce of Harvard University in a speech to teachers (1973)

Posted by Gene at May 30, 2005 02:45 PM
Point well taken, Gene.

I feel nausea coming on.

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What I was trying to say, Johnathan, was that the unions are using forced schooling on our young as a tool to indoctrinate children to their political points of view for their own power gain. Is that ok because the NEA has good intentions? Roads…Hell…paving….

Try looking at what you posted from that point of view. Who is more likely to grab political power; individual parents or the organized NEA who has had that goal for a very long time and has instructed teaching candidates that parents get in the way…do they give a “Parent Disdain 101” course, or something? It seems to be a common trait among educators…and they wear it like a badge of honor.

There are articles on the web from Educrats showing concern that kids might vote like their dumb “biased” parents when they should look at the evidence learned from the “academic elite” in their “unbiased” school and vote the way “real smart people” do.

The teachers I have met seem to have no idea the “nice, altruist school” would do such a thing and blindly tend to their assigned jobs without a second thought.

Only a few people are now figuring things out and are starting to homeschool. What does the NEA say about homeschoolers? That parents are unequipped (that’s a joke), children’s social skills will be ruined (those develop prior to school age and I have never seen a teacher help a child in this way-they look the other way), and the genetically wired parents are, by default, stupid, child abuse suspects, separatists, religious wackos, and possible terrorists?

It is statistically obvious these claims cannot be true. Most parents at least finish 12th grade. Are they saying schools have incarcerated each of our citizens for 12 years, x $6,000+/year, in the name of education and labeled them as graduates and they still have no ability to teach their own children properly? What does this say about the school system?

Why don’t you find these claims absurd? Because they were handed to you by people you were taught to blindly get information from and not to question?…Could it be that teachers are the ones who have been indoctrinated?

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