-Caveat Lector-
AMERICA's TEACHER UNIONS
Molding Our Children into World Citizens for the New World Order
"Among the elementary measures the American Soviet government will
adopt to further the cultural revolution are...[a] National Department
of Education...the studies will be revolutionized, being cleansed of
religious, patriotic, and other features of the bourgeois ideology.
The students will be taught the basis of Marxian dialectical
materialism, internationalism and the general ethics of the new
Socialist society."
- William Z. Foster, Toward Soviet America, 1932 National Chairman of
the American Communist Party (1933-44, 1945-57)
"Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of
the collective society which is coming where everyone is
interdependent."
-John Dewey, 1899, our "father" of education
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Many non-governmental organizations have been influential in the orgy
of spending tax money to corrupt education, for their selfish
interests, while claiming the pure motive of helping our children
acquire quality education. The two most powerful of these are the
American Federation of Teachers(AFT) and the National Education
Association(NEA).
The American Federation of Teachers was organized in 1916. From the
beginning it has been a militant, Marxist organization, using force,
politics, pressure, and propaganda to gain control over teachers and
thus build power for itself. The AFT never did achieve a large
national membership. Its strength has always been concentrated in a
few eastern cities - mainly, New York City. But the AFT influence on
public education in the U.S. has been enormous, for two political
reasons: first, during the critical period of the 1930s, such people
as John Dewey and Norman Thomas were members of the AFT; and second,
rivalry between the AFT and the NEA helped induce the NEA to adopt the
socialist tactics of the AFT.
The National Education Association was organized in 1862. In 1906,
Congress conferred upon it a federal charter, to work as a
professional organization in the field of education. For a long time,
the NEA did operate as a professional group, publishing information
helpful to classroom teachers, trying to improve the quality of
teachers and of teaching in public schools. But by the mid-1930s, the
NEA - like its rival, the AFT - was militant and Marxist. The NEA
became the foremost leader of the drive that was begun by John Dewey
educationists in the American Federation of Teachers - the drive to
create "an educational program for a socialist America," which would
be governed by an elite of professional educator-politicians.
By the 1960s the NEA had a stranglehold on American public education.
Today, NEA officials hold so many key positions in the Department of
Education that the NEA practically runs that federal agency, which
dispenses billions of tax dollars. NEA influence on Congress, the
Supreme Court, and local state senators and assemblymen is also
powerful. The NEA works with monopolistic unions, huge tax-exempt
foundations, racial-agitation organizations, the National Council of
Churches, and similar groups, lobbying for court decisions and
big-spending federal and state programs.
For years, the NEA pretended that it was not a union, and claimed to
be opposed to teacher strikes. The NEA's malign influence and
political pressures on elected officials can never be fully measured,
but can be indicated by the words of its own spokesmen. In 1970, NEA
President George Fischer said: "We will put the fear of God in
politicians all over the country. We plan to make it political suicide
to vote against kids and educations." And so it came to be.
One irony in all this is that the NEA's political lobbying is an open
and direct violation of the federal tax law which gives it tax
exemption. The Internal Revenue Service has never revoked that tax
exemption.
Today, we have created the most extensive and expensive educational
system that has ever existed in the history of the world. Yet, it
graduates thousands of young people who cannot spell, write a correct
sentence, work a simple arithmetic problem, or read with
understanding. They have no worthwhile skills. They do not even know
the alphabet well enough to work effectively as file clerks. The
present American educational system has left a generation of Americans
largely ignorant of the moral, economic, political, and spiritual
principles on which the greatness of our nation is founded. It has
brainwashed a generation of Americans into accepting the illegal
conversion of our Constitutional Republic into a tyrannical,
inefficient socialist-welfare state. It scorns individual excellence
and extols mass mediocrity. Can you really be sure your children won't
come out any different?
Many a person has supported federal aid to education because he
thought that getting "federal money" to help pay for schools in his
district would ease his local tax burden. The opposite has happened.
As federal and state taxes increase to pay for increased aid, the
increased aid creates and mandates more expensive educational systems
- which are still financed in large part by local taxes on real
estate. Throughout the United States, all taxes are going up because
of the costly (and unconstitutional) state and federal programs we
have permitted.
So, when the teacher unions run full-page ads to "save our schools",
we know they really do mean their schools - not ours.
Author Unknown???
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"I would think that, if you understood what communism was, you would
hope, you would pray on your knees that we would become communist."
-Jane Fonda, Michigan State University 1970
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