The N.E.A. is a Political Teacher Organization!

The N.E.A. is a Political Teacher Organization!
In pursuit of the truth - cinops be gone - Friday, Aug. 17, 2012

Do you want a politicized union teacher in your kid’s classroom? In California that’s what we have since 1975 when the Rodda Act was legalized and signed by Governor Jerry Brown with Chief of Staff Davis at his side. That law legalized unionism in public education. Unionism was never intended for public employees, least of all teachers. The union process over the years has politicized and cloned most teachers and is destructive to the education of our children and the role played by their parents.

We want teachers to keep their politics to themselves in the classroom. You pay for your political and social agenda and I will pay for mine. But don’t force me to pay for yours as a public teacher in California. It’s about one thousand dollars or more. It includes N.E.A., C.T.A., W.T.A. tribute donations, so I can be a teacher in the public school.

The purpose of this letter is to restore the integrity and independence of the public school teacher. As a retired public teacher, I want that integrity and independence back for all public school teachers today. [Please vote for Proposition 32 on the Nov. ballot.]

I was a voluntary member of the N.E.A. for five years from 1962-1968. At that time the N.E.A. was a professional teacher organization. For the previous decades they had fought unionism in public education. Look at their literature. (I retired in 1986.)

The N.E.A. left me to become a union. They became a union because of the competition from the Teacher Unions (which I respect) in New York. Also a community organizer prodded them on with talks about teacher power and teacher strength through forced unified dues including the C.T.A. and W.T.A. You have to join all three of them or none at all. I think the community organizer’s name was Sol Alinsky.

By the way the new teacher union did not allow principals, administrative staff, superintendents and school board members from becoming members.

In a Long Beach, Press Telegram news article C-1 - Jan. 12, 1987, our great Governor Deukmejian proposed to eliminate the state’s collective bargaining law for public schools. The superintendents, principals and school board members of this state did not have the guts to stand up for the professional, independent-minded, non-political public school teacher. They saw what was happening and they were cowards in not standing up for the independent public school teacher from the union teacher who was being politically and socially cloned. All of this hurts our children’s education. The truth hurts.

In the 1993-94 THE NEA RESOLUTIONS WERE AS FOLLOWS:

FOR: Tax-funded Abortions: Homosexual Teachers in the Classroom: Tax-funded, School-based Clinics: Government Health Insurance: Nuclear Freeze: Statehood for Washington, D.C.: Forced Unionization of Teachers: Teacher strikes, legal and illegal: Multicultural/Global Education: NEA-Controlled Education System: Collective Bargaining for all Public Employees.

AGAINST: Voluntary School Prayer: Parent directed Home Schooling: Nuclear Power Plants: Tuition Tax Credits and Vouchers: Standardized Testing of Students: English as the U.S. Official Language: Competency Testing of Teachers: Drug, Alcohol and AIDS Testing of Teachers, Bus Drivers & Students.

George H. Kubeck - Today, NEA supports s-s-marriage from their members’ forced tribute dues.