by Beverly Eakman
Why isn’t this enormously large behemoth that ridiculously calls itself a “professional organization” being allowed to continue letting kids and teachers down? Why are politicians so afraid of an organization with such a horrendous record of scandal? Why are teacher-delegates to the NEA’s own annual convention still balking at some of the leadership’s various diktats, even when they get rudely sidelined? What do Americans have to show for the kinds of institutional settings both unions have advocated and lobbied for ­ the dropped dress codes, the lax discipline, the biased curriculums, the graphic sex questionnaires? Why do we continue to throw tax dollars at failure-ridden social programs?...
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