NEA POWER & POLITICS

The National Education Associations outgoing general counsel explains that the NEA has so many enemies because it is powerful.

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• FPIW
• Teachers Unions
• Teachers
• Unions
• Union Power
• Fire Your Teachers Union

[tutorturtle]

Get it yet? Power Corrupts. Apparently so much power in fact, it matter not what you little piss-ant taxpayers think, the NEA is going to rub your nose in it like a bad puppy.

Unions are running this country into the ground for their own power profit and satiation. And they don't give a flying shit what you think of it, because they have the power and you don't.

And why are we allowing this to go on at our expense?

[MsSchaefer123]

This guy and the greedy teachers should be appalled! This is shameful!  To think these dorks actually publicly make statements like this. So self-serving. Listen to the teachers applause! A standing ovation? Show this on every nightly newscast. No wonder the states are broke. You think these losers give a damn?!

[Texfield91]

@agoral7040 He said that improving the schools and lowering the drop out rate was important but could not come at the expense of employee rights and collective bargaining. the NEA is what so many unions have turned in to: PARASITIC SCUM

[agoral7040]

People, please, stop and think for just a second. This is very clearly a sound byte. The comments I've read here truly dishearten me. Greedy teachers? He is explaining WHY the NEA is an effective advocate for the nation's educators and schools. He is explaining that the NEA is effective BECAUSE it has power, not that its objective is to obtain power at the expense of students. You are allowing your biases to cloud your judgment, simply because you have heard a union leader use the word "power".

[1VoiceOfReazon]

@bbridals Hear! Hear! The solution is to END THE MONOPOLY. Monopolies are never in the interest of the consumer, or of freedom. Put the choice into the hands of the customers – the parents – & see how fast the schools (public & private) improve, & the salaries/benefits fall into line with those of the taxpayers. The free market levels the playing field & provides the best opportunity for improvement & fairness.

[dacmiller]

Down with unions forever.

[EdwardWunder]

Sometimes, you don't have to read between the lines, eh?

[AnimeJunki16]

So i guess u were born knowing how to read & write righta/

[Navarre555]

USA kids were #5 on the world's top education list when the Dept of Ed was created, for the purpose of making our kids #1 again. Now they're #23 on the world list. The Dept of Ed and the NEA's track record speaks for itself. One definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing over and over, even when you know it doesn't work.

[Navarre555]

USA kids were #5 on the world's top education list when the Dept of Ed was created, for the purpose of making our kids #1 again. Now they're #23 on the world list. The Dept of Ed and the NEA's track record speaks for itself. One definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing over and over, even when you know it doesn't work.

[ATINNERE]

see all the sheep stand and clap!!!