CHRONOLOGY: THE N.E.A. IN
THEIR OWN WORDS
NOTE: This is a portion of a transcription of a five-year-old old
audiotape. Spellings of proper names cannot be guaranteed - many phonetic
guesses were made.
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1906 - On June 30, the National Education Association
becomes federally chartered or incorporated under H.R. 10501, Public Law
398. The National Education Association has been founded in 1857, but until
1870 was called the "National Teachers' Association."
1912 - The NEA begins to promote the training of
teachers in sex education and sex hygiene.
1913 - The NEA establishes the Commission on the
Reorganization of Secondary Education, which had a membership including
several young rebels of the era. The Commission produced a report in 1918
containing seven cardinal principles or objectives for the education of
every American boy and girl, including ethical character.
1915 - The Educational Trust, known as the Cleveland
Group (because its first meeting was in Cleveland), meets for the first
time. Among the members of the group are George Strayer, professor at
Teachers College, and NEA President from 1918-1919; Elwood Cubberly, Dean of
Stanford University School of Education and leader of the Educational Trust;
Charles Judd, a colleague of John Dewey, who received his Ph.D. from Wilhelm
Wunt in Leipzig in 1896. In David Tiack's and Elizabeth Hansot's
"Managers of Virtue," printed in 1982, Judd is quoted as urging
the Cleveland conference to attempt, "the positive and aggressive task
of a detailed reorganization of the materials of instruction in schools of
all grades." Tiack and Hansot will also write, "There were
placement barons, usually professors of educational administration in
universities such as Teachers College, Harvard, University of Chicago, or
Stanford who had an inside track in placing their graduates in important
positions. One educator comments after spending a weekend with Cubberly in
Palo Alto that, 'Cubberly had an educational Tammany Hall that made the
Strayer-Engelhard Tammany Hall in New York look very week.' And one
principal recalled Strayer's law for dealing with disloyal subordinates as
'give 'em the ax.' " This was the beginning of a plan to use the
credentialing process of teachers to control education.
1932 - The father of progressive education, John Dewey,
was made the honorary President of the National Education Association.
1933 - Dewey co-authored the first humanist manifesto.
1934 - Dewey authored "A Common Faith," in
which he proclaimed, "It is impossible to ignore the fact that historic
Christianity has been committed to a separation of sheep and goats, the
saved and the lost, the elect and the mass. Those outside the fold of the
church and those who do not rely upon belief in the supernatural have been
regarded as only potential brothers, still requiring adoption into the
family. I cannot understand how any realization of the democratic ideal, as
a vital moral and spiritual ideal in human affairs, is possible without
surrender of the conception of the basic division to which supernatural
Christianity is committed."
1934 - In July at the 72nd annual meeting of the
National Education Association, held in Washington, D.C., in a report
titled, "Education for the New America, " Willard Givens, who will
become executive secretary of the NEA in 1935 and serve for 17 years, said
this: "A dying laissez faire must be completely destroyed and all of
us, including the owners, must be subjected to a large degree of social
control. An equitable distribution of income will be sought, and the major
function of the school is the social orientation of the individual. It must
seek to give him understanding of the transition to a new social
order." Givens had submitted similar language in the report of the
Committee on Education for the New America of the Department of
Superintendents of the National Education Association at the Department's
meeting in Cleveland on February 28 of 1934.
December 1934, the NEA Journal editor, Joy Elmer Morgan,
writes an editorial calling for government control of corporations.
1938, on June 29, the "New York
Herald-Tribune," covering the National Education Association convention
in New York City reports: "Dr. Goodwin Watson, professor of education
at Teachers College, Columbia University, begged the teachers of the nation
to use their profession to indoctrinate children to overthrow conservative
reactionaries directing American government and industry. He declared that
Soviet Russia was one of the most notable international achievements of our
generation.
1940, the National Education Association begins
promoting the "Building America" social studies texts which a
California Senate Investigating Committee on Education will later condemn
for its subtle support of Marxism or socialism, contrary to American values.
1942, in December, the National Education Association
Journal editor Joy Elmer Morgan writes an editorial, "The United
Peoples of the World," explaining a world organization's or world
government's need for an educational branch, a world system of money and
credit, a uniform system of weights and measures, a world police force, and
other agencies.
1946, in January, the National Education Association
Journal publishes "The Teacher and World Government" by Joy Elmer
Morgan, editor of the "NEA Journal" from 1921 through 1955, in
which he proclaims: "In the struggle to establish an adequate world
government, the teacher can do much to prepare the hearts and minds of
children for global understanding and cooperation. At the very top of all
the agencies which will assure the coming of world government must stand the
school, the teacher and the organized profession."
1946,In April the "NEA Journal" prints:
"National Education in an International World," by L. Candel of
Teachers College, Columbia University, who comments: "The establishment
of the United Nations Education, Cultural and Scientific Organization marks
the culmination of a movement for the creation of an international agency
for education which began with Comminius. Nations that became members of
UNESCO accordingly assume an obligation to revise the textbooks used in
their schools. Each member nation, if it is to carry out the obligations of
its membership, has a duty to see to it that nothing in its curriculum,
courses of study and textbooks is contrary to UNESCO's aims."
1946, In August, the NEA sponsors a world conference of
the teaching profession -- representatives from 28 nations are present --
which drafts a constitution for a world organization of the teaching
profession. "The organization will hold its first regular meeting in
August 1947 in Glasgow, Scotland and will be a mighty force in aiding
UNESCO." These are the words of William Carr, Associate Secretary of
the NEA's Education Policies Commission.
1947, in October, the National Education Association
Journal includes "On the Waging of Peace," by NEA official William
Carr, who states: "As you teach about the United Nations, lay the
ground for a stronger United Nations by developing in your students a sense
of world community. The United Nations should be transformed into a limited
world government. The psychological foundations for wider loyalties must be
laid. Teach about the various proposals that have been made for
strengthening the United Nations and the establishment of world law. Teach
those attitudes which will result ultimately in the creation of a world
citizenship and world government. We cannot directly teach loyalty to a
society that does not yet exist, but we can and should teach those skills
and attitudes which will help to create a society in which world citizenship
is possible."
1948, "Education for International Understanding in
American Schools: Suggestions and Recommendations" is produced by the
NEA with partial funding by the Carnegie Corporation and contains the
following statements: "The idea has become established that the
preservation of international peace and order may require that force be used
to compel a nation to conduct its affairs within the framework of an
established world system. The most modern expression of this doctrine of
collective security is in the United Nations Charter. Many persons believe
that enduring peace cannot be achieved so long as the nation-state system
continues as at present constituted. It is a system of international
anarchy, a species of jungle warfare. Enduring peace cannot be attained
until the nation-states surrender to a world organization the exercise of
jurisdiction over those problems with which they have found themselves
unable to deal singly in the past."
1952, the National Training Laboratories (NTL) becomes a
part of the National Education Association. The NTL was founded in 1947 and
sponsored by the NEA's Division of Adult Education Service. In 1968 the NTL
will separate from the NEA and become an independent organization, and it
will later, in 1986, be called the NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral
Science.
1962, "Issues in Human Relations Training" is
published by the National Training Laboratories of the National Education
Association. In this book the editors write that human relations, or
sensitivity training: "...fits into a context of institutional
influence procedures which includes coercive persuasion in the form of
thought reform or brain-washing." The book also includes information
about "change agent skills and unfreezing, changing and refreezing
attitudes," and in David Jenkins' essay in the book, he explains that
the Laboratories conducted by the NTL have recently moved from an emphasis
on skill training to sensitivity training. He declares that the trainer has
no alternative but to manipulate. His job is to plan and produce behavior in
order to create changes in other people. The manual also states, regarding
children, that "although we appear to behave appropriately, this
appearance is deceptive. We are pseudo-healthy persons who can benefit from
sensitivity training."
1962, April 26, the "Tulsa Tribune," after
learning that the NEA had a file on its editor under "Critics of
Education," printed an editorial asking, "What is the function of
the National Education Association? To improve the education of America's
children or to stifle criticism of present educational methods?"
1962, In October ,the "Chicago Sun-Times"
publishes an editorial stating, "that the National Education
Association advocated federal aid has surprised us at times but no longer.
For control -- real control -- over the nation's children is being shifted
rapidly to the National Education Association. That organization has about
completed the job of cartelizing public school education under its own
cartel. It is doing so under an organization known as the National Council
for Accreditation of Teachers Education, an agency whose governing council
is tightly NEA-controlled. The manner in which the NEA is usurping parental
prerogatives by determining the type of education offered is very simple:
control the education and hiring of teachers. NEA has no apprehension
regarding federal control of public schools as a consequence of federal aid.
It has control itself. It is extending that control over colleges and
universities which are all Marxist now. In the NEA scheme of things, it will
be a simple matter to extend control over whatever Washington agency handles
the funds."
1962,In October 20, the "New York Times"
publishes: "McMurren insists he quit to teach," by Wallace Turner,
in which he writes that before Sterling McMurren resigned as U.S.
Commissioner of Education, Dr. McMurren told NEA head William Carr,
"You and I head up the biggest bureaucracies in Washington. The
National Education Association has all of the bureaucratic shortcomings and
is in danger of moving toward national control of education, not by the
federal government, but by the NEA."
1963, In March and April, a special supplement of
"AV Communication Review" is published as "Monograph No.
2" of the Technological Development Project of the NEA. The Project is
under contract No. SAE-9073 with the United States Office of Education of
Health, Education and Welfare, as authorized under Title 7, Part B, of the
National Defense Education Act of 1958. The contractor is the NEA, and in
this supplement you will find: "Another area of potential development
in computer applications is the attitude-changing machine. Dr. Bertram Raven
in the psychological department at the University of California in Los
Angeles is in the process of building a computer-based device for changing
attitude. This device will work on the principle that students' attitudes
can be changed effectively by using the Socratic method of asking an
appropriate series of leading questions, logically designed to right the
balance between appropriate attitudes and those deemed less
acceptable."
1967, "Humanizing Education: The Person in the
Process," is edited by Robert Leaper for the Association for
Supervision and Curriculum Development of the National Education
Association, and contains Carl Rogers' article, "The Interpersonal
Relationship and the Facilitation of Learning," in which Rogers
declares: "The goal of education is the facilitation of change."
Rogers was taught by William H. Kilpatrick at Teachers College where he
received his Ph.D. in 1931. As a psychiatrist, he originated client-centered
psychotherapy and helped found, with Abraham Mazlo, Ralomey Iraprogov and
others, the Association for Humanistic Psychology in 1962.
1967, In October, the NEA "Journal" publishes
"Helping Children to Clarify Values," by Lois E. Raths, Merrill
Harmon and Sidney B. Simon, in which the authors declare: "The old
approach seems to be to persuade the child to adopt the right values rather
than to help him develop a valuing process. Clarifying is an honest attempt
to help a student look at his life and to encourage him to think about it in
an atmosphere in which positive acceptance exists. The teacher must work to
eliminate his own tendencies to moralize."
1967, In November, the NEA "Journal"
publishes, "The New Social Studies," in which one will read,
"Probably the most obvious change occurring in the social studies
curriculum is a breaking away from the traditional dominance of history,
geography and civics. Materials from the behavioral sciences, sociology,
social psychology, are being incorporated into both elemental and secondary
school programs." The NEA Executive Secretary, Sam Lambert, comments:
"The NEA will become a political power second to no other special
interest group. The NEA will have more and more to say about how a teacher
is educated, whether he should be admitted to the profession, and whether he
should stay in the profession."
In 1968, Elizabeth Coones became the head of the National Education
Association, making "teacher power" the rallying cry of her
administration. She advocated that teachers organize, agitate and strike.
She also promoted the kibbutz concept. On September 23, she addressed the
American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education and stated: "The
National Education Association has a multi-faceted program already directed
toward the urban school problem, embracing every phase from the Head Start
Program to sensitivity training for adults, both teachers and parents."
In 1969, in January, "Today's Education," published by the NEA,
contained an article called "Forecast for the '70s" by Harold and
June Shane. Their article was a digest of many articles within which you can
find the following comments: "Ten years hence, it should be more
accurate to term him, the teacher, a learning clinician. This title is
intended to convey the idea that schools are becoming clinics whose purpose
is to provide individualized psycho-social treatment for the student, thus
increasing his value both to himself and to society. Educators will assume a
formal responsibility for children when they reach the age of two, with
mandatory foster homes and boarding schools for children between ages 2 and
3 whose home environment was felt to have a malignant influence and children
would become the objects of biochemical experimentation."
In 1970, July 3, NEA President George Fisher tells NEA representatives at
an assembly that "A good deal of work has been done to begin to bring
about uniform certification, controlled by the unified profession in each
state. A model Professional Practices Act has been developed, and work has
begun to secure passage of the Act in each state where such legislation is
needed. With these new laws we will finally realize our 113-year-old dream
of controlling who enters, who stays, and who leaves the profession. Once
this is done, we can also control the teacher training institutions."
In September 1970, in NEA's "Today's Education" editorial, one
reads: "The change-agent teacher does more than dream. He builds, too.
He is part of an association of colleagues in his local school system, in
his state, and across the country that makes up an interlocking system of
change-agent organizations. This kind of system is necessary because
changing our society through the evolutionary educational processes requires
simultaneous action on three power levels."
In 1971, "Rules for Radicals" by socialist Sol Alensky is
published. According to Suzanne Clark, in "Blackboard Blackmail,"
John Lloyd, Executive Director of the Kansas National Education Association,
an NEA affiliate, from February 1, 1980 to June 1984, will say that this
book by Alensky will become the "NEA's Bible." In Alensky's book,
which has an acknowledgment to Lucifer at the front, he asserts that
"Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative,
non-challenging attitude toward change among the masses of our people."
He continues to say that the radical organizer, dedicated to changing the
life of a particular community, must first rub raw the resentments of the
people of the community, ban the latent hostilities of many of the people to
the point of overt expression. He must search out controversy and issues. An
organizer must stir up dissatisfaction and discontent. He knows that all
values are relative. Truth to him is relative and changing."
Perhaps not coincidentally, at about this time, Health, Education and
Welfare lets contract No. OEC-0-8-080603-4535010, under which portions of
"Training for Change Agents" (1973) by Ronald and Mary Havelock,
will be developed, and in which one reads: "The
advocator-organizer-agitator (ADORAG) and social architect change-agents
would receive training in value clarification. Because of his political and
ego strength, the ADORAG is relatively invulnerable to the system. He is
able to ride or create a crisis to escalate frictions and protests.
Knowledge of the law and strategies of confrontation and civil disobedience
will be extremely helpful. Three to six crucial school districts in one
state would be identified in which inside and outside change teams would
work on their projects."
In the spring of 1974, the Federal Office of Education will give a grant
of $5.9 million for 500 change-agents to be changed at 21 institutions of
higher education around the country. "The Commission on Professional
Rights and Responsibilities," a National Education Association brochure
No. 163-04940-71, lists among the Commission's purposes to: "gather
information about the various individuals and groups who criticize or oppose
education and make resumes of their activities."
"Schools for the '70s and Beyond: A Call to Action" is
published by the National Education Association and it declares that:
"Teachers who conform to the traditional institutional mode are out of
place. They might find fulfillment as tap dance instructors or guards in
maximum security prisons or proprietors of reducing salons or agents of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation. But they damage teaching, children and
themselves by staying in the classroom."
In 1972, the National Education Association President, Catherine Baron,
stated: "We are the biggest potential political fighting force in this
country, and we are determined to control the direction of American
education."
If you would like verification of this, see "A Relic of the New Age:
The National Education Association," by Robert Kagen in "The
American Spectator," February 1982.
1973, February 10, in the same edition of "Saturday
Review" of education radical feminist leader Gloria Steinhem declares,
"By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in
human potential, not God," the NEA President Catherine Baron pronounces
that, "Dramatic changes in the way we will raise our children in the
year 2000 are indicated, particularly in terms of schooling. We will need to
recognize the so-called basic skills which currently represent nearly the
total effort in elementary schools will be taught in one-quarter of the
present school day. When this happens, and it is near, the teacher can rise
to his true calling. More than a dispenser of information, the teacher will
be a conveyor of values, a philosopher. We will be agents of change."
National Education Association President Helen Wise addressed NEA
political fund-raisers and commented, "We must reorder Congressional
priorities by reordering Congress. We must defeat those who oppose our
goals."
1975, the National Education Association Resolutions
Committee meets in Washington, D.C. and proposes a resolution that says:
"No person should be dismissed or demoted because of sexual
orientation." This resolution is typical of the radical types of
resolutions on such subjects as abortion rights that the NEA will support in
future years. These resolutions will also clearly demonstrate the hypocrisy
of the National Education Association which on the one hand will advocate
the right to abortion as a matter of privacy but then will support
comprehensive sex education which includes a virtual sex organ recital,
K-12, ignoring students' privacy rights not to be exposed to this in a
public school classroom with other students, male and female, present.
November-December 1975 "Today's Education,"
the NEA's journal, publishes NEA President John Ryers editorial called
"The Uses of Teacher Power" in which he declares: "We must
become the foremost political power in the nation."
1976, on February 5, the "Los Angeles Times"
published Richard Berholz's article called "Teachers' Group Seeks
National System Like Hitler's for U.S. Schools, Reagan Says," in which
the future President Reagan says at a Florida rally that the National
Education Association really wants "a federal educational system, a
national school system, so that little Willie's mother would not be able to
go down and see the principal or even the school board. She would actually
have to take her case up to Congress in Washington. I believe this is the
road to disaster and the end of academic freedom."
The NEA makes available to public schools around the nation a program
titled, "A Declaration of Interdependence: Education for a Global
Community."
September-October 1976, "Today's Education"
publishes NEA President John Ryer's editorial called "Education for a
Global Community," describing the National Education Association's
Bicentennial Committee theme of world interdependence. In the same issue is
also published "The Seven Cardinal Principles Revisited,"
concerning the NEA Bicentennial Committee's work culminating in the
"NEA Bicentennial Idea Book" regarding a "reframing of the
cardinal principles of education, 1918, and recommendations for a global
curriculum." A report has been prepared by Project Chairman Harold
Shane. In this article there is material from the report dealing with the
seven cardinal principles including this statement: "There are striking
similarities of thought between the 1918 report and the present panel's
thinking. For one thing, the NEA Bicentennial panelists emphasize the
importance of a global viewpoint. Various statements supported loyalty to
the planet as well as to the nation, the need for a world view, world
citizenship, and the need for membership in much larger societies, or for
recognizing that citizenship is more narrow than chauvinism. The report also
said educators around the world are in a unique position to help bring about
a harmoniously interdependent global community." Terrell H. Vell of the
United States Office of Education was a member of the NEA's Cardinal
Principles Pre-Planning Committee, and he was named by President Reagan as
United States Secretary of Education in 1981.
1978, November ,"Reader's Digest" published
"The NEA: A Washington Lobby Run Rampant," by Eugene Methvan, in
which he remarked, "By the early 1970s a young Turk faction had gained
control of the NEA and launched into full-scale unionism. When Terry
Hearndon became NEA's Executive Director in 1973, he set about building a
huge political machine. What is the NEA's ultimate goal? Hearndon is blunt:
'To tap the legal, political and economic powers of the United States
Congress. We want leaders and staff with sufficient clout that they may roam
the halls of Congress and collect votes to reorder the priorities of the
United States of America."
1980,On July 9, the "Washington Post" printed
David Broder's nationally syndicated column in which he described his
interview with the National Education Association Executive Director Terry
Hearndon at the union's annual convention. Broder asked about parents' and
voters' concern over the poor quality of public schools and Hearndon replied
that the convention speakers and delegates: "don't know what the answer
is. We don't have the answers. Our Executive Board spent more time talking
about the crisis in urban education than any other topic this year. But we
have no answer."
1982, the NEA sued Suzanne Clark for her published
criticisms of the labor union. She was legally defended by Concerned Women
for America, and in her book, "Blackboard Blackmail," which was
endorsed by Dr. D. James Kennedy, she would later relate in that deposition
testimony then-NEA President Willard McGuire admitted it would be accurate
to say the National Education Association effectively declared war against
the New Right, and the lawsuit reasonably could be characterized as an
example of that declaration. Dorothy Massey with the NEA admitted she
maintained about twelve file drawers on the New Right. But on the advice of
her attorney, she refused to produce any information from those files.
1983,On December 2, the NEA withdrew its suit against
Suzanne Clark. In her book she quoted Kansas National Education Association
Executive Director John Lloyd as stating that the National Education
Association "is controlled and run by a group of non-educators,
well-paid professional staff who have their own agenda, which is not
necessarily in the best interest of public education or of the poorly paid
teachers who faithfully serve it." Lloyd is also reported to have
revealed that "Rules for Radicals," author Sol Alensky, hired to
train National Education Association staff members, integrated radicalism
into the union.
1983 on April 5, the "Washington Post"
editorial "Political Teaching," accuses the NEA of preparing
curriculum materials on nuclear weapons, atomic war and the American arms
build-up, which are political indoctrination. The curriculum is called
"Choices: A Unit on Conflict and Nuclear War."
1983, In early June, John DeMars, Director of NEA Peace
Programs and International Relations, and Sam Pizigotti, Associate Director
of NEA Communications, traveled to Nicaragua and made an on-site report
which compared Marxist Nicaragua favorably to El Salvador. Their conclusion
states that the United States should stop its military aid to the Contras
fighting the Marxists in Nicaragua. Why? Because the NEA itself is Marxist.
1983, On November 14, United States Senator Steve Symes
writes a letter in which he states: "I am writing you today to alert
you to a radical, big labor takeover of the schools in your community. The
National Education Association, a union second only to the Teamsters in size
and power, is about to seize total control of public education in America.
Unless you and I take immediate action on this emergency situation, the NEA
will succeed in pushing legislation through Congress that will force
compulsory unionization on every public school in the country. This is not
an idle threat. It is just one part of the NEA's legislative program for the
98th Congress adopted at its July 1982 convention in Los Angeles. Further,
the National Education Association has publicly boasted of its plan to seize
control of the agencies and boards that decide who is allowed to teach and
what is to be taught. The NEA has become the most powerful special interest
group in the United States. Their lobbying has brought about a
seventeen-fold increase in federal education spending in the last 20 years.
In 1982 their contributions of $1,183,215 and their army of volunteer
campaign workers helped elect 222 Congressmen, a majority of the House of
Representatives. But instead of using its influence to improve the quality
of American education, the NEA has presided over the virtual crumbling of
our nation's schools."
1983, the National Education Association distributes
"Combating the New Right" which is a training program developed by
the NEA western states regional staff. It criticizes Phyllis Schafly, Mel
and Norma Gabbler, Howard Philips and other members of the New Right. The
program tells a teacher "You are a target of the Far Right" if
"you ask students to examine their values, teach sex education, ever
indicate it may be okay to lie, teach about values different from those of
the students' parents, teach that anything goes, or if you feel it's okay,
do it, train your students to be global citizens, teach humanism, etc."
A number of NEA state affiliates will follow the NEA lead in this area and
produce their own publications such as the Michigan Education Association's
"Far-Right Extremists' Attacks on Public Education."
1983 and '84, in the NEA's "Today Education,"
1983-84 Annual Edition, you can read this: "The National Education
Association believes that communications between certified personnel and
students must be legally privileged. It urges its affiliates to aid in
seeking legislation that provides this privilege and protects both educators
and students." Parents are not to know what communication occurs
between their children and these teachers.
1988, February 1-5. the Soviet-American Citizens Summit,
a new-age networker Barbara Marks Hubbard, an organizer, is held in
Alexandria, Virginia with a delegation of approximately 100 Soviets
coordinated by the Soviet Peace Committee. According to a 1985 State
Department report on Soviet active measures, the SPC is linked to the Soviet
Central Committee's International Department, which was created by Stalin to
carry out subversion within other countries. Interesting is the fact that
the Education Task Force at the Summit recommended that the National
Education Association guide a global computer program.
1988, May 13-16, along with the Carnegie Council on
Ethics and International Affairs, Foreign Policy Association, Global
Tomorrow Coalition, International Development Conference, and others, the
NEA co-sponsors the American Forum on Education and International
Competence. Some of the workshop topics include: "Developing Strategies
for Internationalizing State Curriculum," "The United Nations
University," "Ten Years of Thinking Globally, Acting
Locally," "Will They Use It?" "Implementing Global
Education Initiatives: The United Nations in Global Education,"
"Political Religious Challenges to Global Education." The National
Education Association adopted Resolution C34 stating this: "The
National Education Association believes that home school programs cannot
provide the child with a comprehensive education experience. The Association
believes that if parental preference home school study occurs, students
enrolled must meet all state requirements. Instruction should be by persons
who are licensed by the appropriate state education licenser agency and a
curriculum provided by the State Department of Education should be
used."
1990, In October, "NEA Today" prints the
comments of Mary Faber of the NEA's Human and Civil Rights Division, and she
says: "Both right wing and religious extremists have secured bans on
textbooks containing stories about violence and sorcery." And Ms. Faber
recommends that teachers report anti-Satanist activity immediately to your
local National Education Association. "It's your best defense against
what is usually the real aim of such activity -- an attack on public
education."
1991 in March, the "National Education Association
Today" published an interview by NEA staffer Stephanie Weiss with
Planned Parenthood President Fay Waddleton in which the latter expresses her
support for school-based distribution of contraceptives and comprehensive
sexuality education which would begin well before kindergarten age.
1992, the NEA passed resolutions supporting sex
education, abortion and homosexual rights. The NEA has a Gay and Lesbian
Caucus and spends millions of dollars supporting political candidates. This
labor union is active in many areas not strictly academically related.
1993, on January 23, meeting in Stockholm, the 240
international affiliates of the National Education Association, known as
World Confederation of Organizations of the Teaching Profession, and the
American Federation of Teachers, shown as International Federation of Free
Teachers Unions, joined to form Education International. Former NEA head and
current head of WCOTP, Mary Hatwood Butrell, will be the President of EI.
This could mean the NEA and the AFT in the United States will soon merge and
attempt to further their goals of nationalizing American education. And what
they mean is national goals, national tests, national teacher certification,
etc. We've all seen these things happen. Later will come internationalizing
Americans and other nations' education.
1993, On June 7, "Forbes" magazine published
"The National Extortion Association," by Peter Brenlow and Leslie
Spencer. In this article, sharply critical of the NEA, the authors note
that: "As the National Education Association has gained in monopoly
power, the cost of education has increased while its quality has
deteriorated." Does anyone want to argue that point?
1993, July 2-5, at the NEA's annual convention in San
Francisco, delegates approved resolutions supporting multi-cultural, global
education, abortion rights, and comprehensive school-based clinics.
Resolutions were also passed advocating that teachers be legally protected
from censorship and lawsuits related to sex education, including education
regarding sexual orientation. Resolution B-1 states that: "the NEA
supports early childhood education programs in the public schools for
children from birth through age 8." From BIRTH! And concerning home
schooling, Resolution B-58 indicates that: "Instruction should be by
persons who are licensed by the appropriate state education licensure agency
and a curriculum approved by the State Department of Education should be
used." President Clinton addressed the delegates and thanked the NEA
for: "the gift of our Assistant Secretary," referring to long-time
NEA activist and staffer Sharon Robinson who has become United States
Assistant Secretary of Education for the Office of Educational Research and
Improvement and who sits next to Hillary Rodham Clinton on the front row of
the NEA convention. President Clinton went on to say that he believed his
goals for America closely parallel those of the NEA. He further said,
"I believe that the president of this organization would say we have
had the partnership I promised in the campaign in 1992 and we will continue
to have it. You and I are joined in a common cause, and I believe we will
succeed."
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