Bob Channin, the NEA’s top lawyer said in his retirement speech:
“Despite what some among us would like to believe it is not because of our creative ideas. It is not because of the merit of our positions. It is not because we care about children and it is not because we have a vision of a great public school for every child. NEA and its affiliates are effective advocates because we have power.”
“And we have power because there are more than 3.2 million people who are willing to pay us hundreds of millions of dollars in dues each year, because they believe that we are the unions that can most effectively represent them, the unions that can protect their rights and advance their interests as education employees.”
“This is not to say that the concern of NEA and its affiliates with closing achievement gaps, reducing dropout rates, improving teacher quality and the like are unimportant or inappropriate. To the contrary. These are the goals that guide the work we do. But they need not and must not be achieved at the expense of due process, employee rights and collective bargaining. That simply is too high a price to pay.”
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Were You Aware That The Teacher’s Union Admits That Students Are Secondary, Power Is The Goal?
Posted on February 24, 2011.
Yes, and they will tell you that in order to improve education they have to have the corporate majority of power and political capital. They the members are all filled with good intentions like all good liberal minded myrmidons! The road to hell is already filled with people of ‘good’ intentions!
DId you even READ the third paragraph? Didn’t think so..
“This is not to say that the concern of NEA and its affiliates with closing achievement gaps, reducing dropout rates, improving teacher quality and the like are unimportant or inappropriate. To the contrary. These are the goals that guide the work we do.”
These are the goals that guide the work we do.
He never says it is their goal, does he? In fact he says their goal is “closing achievement gaps, reducing dropout rates, improving teacher quality and the like”
He admits that the only way they can achieve these goals is if they have power.
What do you think Unions do?
They don’t set Education Criteria they get results for their Members.
That is their purpose.
There IS Power in a Union!
Were you aware that Scott Walker is on a major union busting power trip, budget is secondary.