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I am posting this because of the importance to home schoolers. I guess it
could be called the loonies are at it again.
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From: "Cravens, Roger D." 
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Subject: PIML:  NEA Passes Usual Radical Resolutions
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 96 07:53:00 EST
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From: Eagle Forum
Subject: August 1996 Education Reporter -- NEA Passes Usual Radical
Resolutions
Date: Tuesday, August 06, 1996 3:43PM
                    NEA Passes Usual Radical Resolutions
             91% of NEA Delegates Endorse Clinton for President
     The nearly 9,000 delegates to the annual convention of the
     National Education Association passed their usual series of
     pro-big-spending, anti-parent, pro-feminist, and pro-gay-rights
     resolutions. Many resolutions put the NEA on record for federal
     funding to be "substantially increased."
     The convention was held in Washington, D.C. over the Fourth of
     July weekend. The 2.2 million member union employs 550 staff
     members who work at the NEA headquarters in Washington and six
     regional offices.
     The NEA wants to abolish "deleterious programs." This doesn't mean
     eliminating explicit sex education curricula or R-rated videos. It
     means eliminating such "detrimental" programs as "privatization,
     performance contracting, tax credits for tuition to private and
     parochial schools, voucher plans, and evaluations by private
     groups."
     The attitude of the NEA toward any competition for public schools
     is indicated by the comment of delegate Richard Malizia of Union
     City, NJ, who told the press, "Privatization is a disease that
     rots school buildings." The NEA is now in court trying to kill
     state-approved voucher programs in Milwaukee and Cleveland.
     Since the NEA is a union, its prime goal is not education but more
     jobs and more schools that require more tax funding. To create
     more jobs, the NEA not only supports "mandatory kindergarten with
     compulsory attendance," but also "early childhood education
     programs in the public schools for children from birth through age
     eight." This would not be simple baby-sitting; it would feature
     "diversity-based curricula and appropriate bias-free screening
     devices."
     The NEA is adamantly opposed to home schooling unless the parents
     are licensed and use a curriculum approved by the state department
     of education. The NEA wants a say in how private schools are run
     as well. According to newly rewritten Resolution A-1, individuals
     should be free to choose private education only so long as the
     school is "accredited under uniform standards established by the
     appropriate agency in collaboration with the National Education
     Association and its affiliates."
     The NEA swallowed a lot of bad PR and some loss of membership
     because of last year's resolution endorsing a Lesbian and Gay
     History Month, known as Resolution B-9. This year's convention
     omitted that one line, but continued to endorse all other
     gay-lesbian demands, including rewriting curriculum, textbooks,
     and activities.
     The NEA's answer to the problem of teen pregnancy is not to teach
     abstinence or self-discipline, but to teach self-esteem, making
     sure that it is "anti-biased, culturally sensitive." The NEA also
     demands that schools set up "on-site child care services."
     The NEA is enthusiastic about sex education so long as it includes
     "diversity of sexual orientation, incest, and sexual harassment."
     The NEA resolution follows the SIECUS-Planned Parenthood dogma
     that "it is the right of every individual [i.e., every child,
     without parental consent] to live in an environment [i.e., the
     school] of freely available information, knowledge, and wisdom
     [i.e., as defined by the school] about sexuality."
     The NEA wants every child to have "direct and confidential [i.e.,
     without parental knowledge or consent] access to comprehensive
     [i.e., K-12] health, social, and psychological programs and
     services [i.e., contraceptives]." The NEA wants guidance and
     counseling programs to be "integrated into the entire education
     system [i.e., so parents can't opt out their children] beginning
     at the prekindergarten level."
     The NEA endorses all the trendy liberal fads: multicultural ed,
     global ed, AIDS ed, environmental ed, bilingual ed, self-esteem
     ed, suicide ed, and school based sex clinics. However, the some
     300 resolutions passed by the convention made no mention of
     phonics education or teaching children to read.
     The NEA is strongly on record as wanting to continue admitting
     illegal aliens into tax-supported public schools, even though this
     reduces the funds available to schoolchildren who are citizens.
     The California Teachers Association bitterly fought Proposition
     187, which was overwhelmingly passed by the California voters in
     1994, and is now trying to overturn it in the courts.
     In recognition of the fact that semi-literate public school
     graduates must take high school courses all over again in college,
     the NEA went on record against denying taxpayer funds to college
     students enrolled in "remedial" courses.
     In regard to accountability, the NEA resolutions make clear that
     the union "opposes standardized testing" and "the use of these
     tests to compare one student, staff member, school, or district
     with another." The NEA opposes "competency testing" as a condition
     of employment, evaluation, placement, ranking or promotion.
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