RE> MS> These "most supportive parents" are taking their kids out of the 
RE> public
RE> MS> schools in droves in very large part because of the candidates 
RE> NEA 
RE> backs
RE> MS> favoring using public schools for social gameplaying instead of 
RE> teaching.
RE> 
RE>    While I, as an NEA member, disagree strongly with many of the 
RE> social 
RE> gameplaying positions you're hinting at, there's still a lot of good 
RE> that 
RE> the NEA is doing.  Despite some of its ludicrous social positions, 
RE> the NEA 
RE> advances education as a whole.
RE>    But you should remember that advancing education is only a minor 
RE> (IMHO a
RE> very minor) part of the NEA's job.  The NEA is a labor union.  
    If NEA was a "union" in the normal sense of the word, it would want 
better working conditions for its members instead of advancing some 
ultraliberal agenda.  That would make the NEA the strongest imaginable 
supporter of alternative schools for troublemakers and getting rid of laws 
making it impossible to expel disruptive kids because they are designated 
"_emotionally_ handicapped", and oppose mainstreaming of grossly-handicapped 
kids.
RE> Advancing 
RE> its members interests should be its #1 priority.
    It _should_ be, but those "ludicrous" social agenda positions you refer 
to are conflicting with that (on matters like I listed).
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