NEA: Education’s Dedicated “Change Agent”
Radio Commentary, 90.7, 91.7 New Life FM, October 7, 2011
By Sue Ella Deadwyler
Good morning, Jim. The National Education Association changes locations of its conference every year, but always meets over the Fourth of July holiday. This year in Chicago delegates left no doubt the NEA is the consummate “change agent,” with 180-day annual access to public school children for at least 12 years … and longer if students attend preschool.
They, also, want children “socialized” from birth, to fit them into the NEA-approved/promoted humanistic culture of public schools. Since children aren’t properly “socialized” if they enter school with family values, there’s a plan. Give parents a government curriculum to be used at home to train their babies until they’re old enough for preschool. Actually, the plan is already working. It’s the “Parents as Teachers” program, involving hospital visits to offer government approved curriculum to parents of newborns, so the child can be brought up in the way the “village” wants them to go – without family standards or religious values.
Sexual behavior is a big issue with NEA, which you’d expect to promote chastity until marriage, but not so. In 2010 the NEA passed 20 pro-homosexual resolutions covering everything they could think of at that time. But since then, they came up with another idea. This year delegates passed a resolution to “publish Articles to celebrate the contributions of gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgender teachers and GLBT friends of education.”
They, also, adopted radical political resolutions, such as one to comply with unratified UN treaties; one to oppose English as our official language; one opposing a moment of silence in schools; and one to more strictly regulate guns. They passed resolutions to support abortion, family planning clinics in public schools, and the use of so-called non-sexist language … whatever that means.
The more I read NEA resolutions, the more I wonder how they obtained almost complete control of public education. Their support for unratified UN treaties indicates their non-support for U.S. laws and constitutions. They don’t want to make English the official language of the U.S., so what language do they want? Their rejection of a moment of silence in public schools flies in the face of our constitutional right to religious expression. It’s the height of arrogance for NEA to think they can do a better job of rearing children than parents can. From what I’ve read, the NEA seems to be more interested in politics than education. Have you wondered like I have? Who are these people, anyway? For Georgia Insight I’m Sue Ella Deadwyler, your Capitol Correspondent.