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Don Feder (archive)
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September 5, 2001
Welcome to NEA-dominated schoolhouse
As millions of children head back to class this week, members of
the National Education Association will be at the schoolhouse door,
waiting to warp impressionable minds. Between them, the NEA and the
American Federation of Teachers (its ideological twin) represent
upward of 85 percent of the nation's public school teachers. In
terms of shaping the content of public education, the NEA is more
powerful than all the school committees and education boards in the
land.
As its 2001 national convention demonstrated, the NEA's platform is
indistinguishable from the agendas of the ACLU or People For the
American Way. Little wonder that last year the NEA sent more
delegates to the Democratic National Convention than the state of
California.
A popular button spotted at the association's Los Angeles assembly
read, "Jesus loves ya, Dubya, everyone else thinks you're an
(obscenity)." Thus do progressive educators teach tolerance and
show their respect for the office of president.
When it comes to protecting public education's monopoly status, the
NEA functions as a medieval guild. Predictably, the convention
passed resolutions deploring charter schools, vouchers, home
schooling and standardized tests, while demanding substantial
increases in education funding.
But the NEA also took stands on issues not remotely related to
education. It supported statehood for the District of Columbia,
comparable worth legislation, abortion and "proscriptive"
(confiscatory) gun control, but opposed official English and
space-based defense.
The NEA's political program translates into indoctrination in the
schools. In La-La land, the guild embraced multiculturalism, global
education, environmental education and race, gender and
sexual-orientation studies.
All of these courses are based on dubious premises and designed to
advance a cause. One side of the argument is treated as received
wisdom, the other essentially ignored.
In its resolution on environmental education, the NEA pledged to
push courses promoting "the concept of interdependence of humanity
and nature," "an awareness of ... population growth ... on human
survival" (but no consideration of the contributions of population
increases to productivity), "solutions to such problems as ...
global warming, ozone depletion" and acid rain (which science has
yet to establish as problems) and participation in Earth Day
celebrations.
All that's missing is a demand that Al Gore's "Earth in the
Balance" be adopted as a textbook and a call for teachers to
collect contributions for Earth First.
In another of its knee-jerk resolutions, the NEA declared "the
struggles of working men and women to establish unions ... should
be an integral part of the curriculum in our schools." They're not
talking about teaching the history of organized labor, but getting
kids to love and trust union bosses.
In 1997, the California Federation of Teachers came up with a swell
way to introduce grade-schoolers to the Jimmy Hoffa worldview. The
federation is an AFT affiliate, but the curriculum it devised
(called "Yummy Pizza Company") has been endorsed by the NEA.
Kids role-play as workers who make pizzas. Management (the teacher)
cuts their wages and increases their hours. The children are then
encouraged to organize, engage in collective bargaining and go out
on strike. Since the NEA is the largest union in America, and its
members frequently strike for higher wages, there's more than a
little self-interest at work here.
Students are also given problems to solve. One involves a business
called "Kids for Hire," owned by Mr. Ink, which employs children to
cut lawns, wash cars and baby-sit. Ink pays them less than he
charges his customers (otherwise known as capitalism -- a concept
teachers, as government workers, are probably unfamiliar with). The
kids think it's unfair. Mr. Ink tells them to quit if they're
dissatisfied.
But he's the only employer who'll hire them, the lesson plan
instructs. (Are the kids incapable of offering these services on
their own?) Students are asked, "What do you think the children
should do?" Oh, go on strike, slash Ink's tires, throw rocks
through his windows, and beat up scabs.
Lenin said give me a child for the first five years of his life and
he'll be mine thereafter. The NEA has your child for 12 years.
Vouchers are looking better and better all the time.
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