A is for Abortion! I mean, Apple!
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If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
The National Education Association – the nation's largest professional employee organization - is gearing up for their annual convention that is set to take place in San Diego, California this year. Think a low budget Democratic National Convention, minus the blue donkey balloons and confetti.
The dialogue that frequently permeates these shindigs is usually prefaced with declarations of the intrinsic value of all children, and then quickly moves on to center on the apparent lack of funds for teacher's salaries, school activities and after-school curriculums. And that isn't confusing at all when you consider the NEA officially endorses mass child slaughter, and ranks as the third largest financial contributor to pro-abortion political candidates and organizations in the entire nation.
Did I mention these guys are supposed to like kids? And here I thought critical thinking was introduced in like, the fourth grade. So much for practice what you teach.
Thanks to abortion, 1.3 million children will never attend their first day of school each year. It's hard to believe that those who make a living pushing educational agendas like 'No Child Left Behind' would so willingly advocate leaving behind those who are sloshing around mutilated in a stainless steel bowl at the local abortuary.
Despite the fact that only 49% of NEA members are self-described Democrats, over 95% of the NEA's multi-million dollar contributions go to Democratic causes, including donations to over 40 pro-abortion groups such as Planned Parenthood, NARAL, Pro-Choice America, the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, National Organization of Women and the Leadership Council of the Pro-Choice Public Education Project.
Here's a thought - and I'm just tossing around ideas here – but maybe we would be better able to fund school essentials if the NEA stopped cutting checks to organizations who consider 'education' to be shuttling 12 year olds to get secret second trimester abortions and teaching kindergarteners how to masturbate.
The NEA has taken abortion advocacy as far as to allow the late late-term abortionist George Tiller to have a speaking role at one of its buildings on March 10, 2008. At the time Tiller was facing 19 criminal charges for illegal late-term abortions and a grand jury investigation into additional illegalities. This was the notorious speech where he was caught on camera stating that he has killed children up to a day before the mother's due date. (One wonders why unanesthetized second and third trimester salt poisoning and brain suction abortions aren't included in NEA's stand against "mutilation and suffering" in its Human Rights Resolution 1-10?)
Not content to simply applaud, fund and endorse abortion, the National Education Association has stated in its pro-abortion resolution that it is working towards the "implementation of community-operated, school-based family planning clinics that will provide intensive counseling by trained personnel."
Gee, as long as we're helping industries of harmful elective indulgences zero in on targeted school-aged customers, why don't we set up tobacco shops next to the school bookstore too?
During the presidential campaign in 2008, the National Education Association didn't even attempt to feign impartiality as they slobbered all over Barack Obama, the champion of abortions on minors, FOCA, partial-birth abortion and parental notification abolition. Oh, by the way, Obama is expected to address the NEA convention once again this year. It's the least he could do after the heavy hand the NEA leant during election season last year.
NEA's president, Reg Weaver said that he chose to back the abortion candidate Obama because, "Barack Obama understands that a child is more than a test score." Yes, judging by his advocacy of fetal stem cell research, a child can also be a test subject! Kind of sheds a whole new light on Michelle Obama's gushing over children being a "precious resource", doesn't it? Hope and change and Soylent Green is people...
The real mystery, however, is how educators can promote those who are overwhelmingly uneducated when it comes to children and prenatal development. I'm fairly certain no one in Obama's camp even knows what a baby actually looks like. I can just envision them looking at an ultrasound. "Hey, look at this. What the hell is that? Is that like, cauliflower or something? It's totally sucking its thumb. I didn't know vegetables did that."
While organizations certainly have every right to endorse whomever they please, the official support of fetal slaughter and those who profit from it is especially distressing to NEA members who do not agree with the political pandering to baby butchers, yet still have to pay dues to the Education Association in order to get or keep a job as a condition of employment.
And it's not just the pro-life crowd distressed. A recent survey revealed that 82% of NEA members believe that their association should take no position whatsoever on the issue of abortion. This means that regardless of political views, an overwhelming majority of teachers expect the NEA to fight for things like better teacher pay and higher standards in school - not to support pro-abortion candidates and justices that argue for killing the next generation of students.
It's really not all that hard. Allow me to break it down:
Teachers AGAINST pro-abortion NEA activism = majority.
Teachers FOR pro-abortion NEA activism = minority.
Should the NEA fund abortion advocates? No. (That's math!)
As long as we're educating the educators, let's move on to another subject and take a look at some NEA history. For instance, you'd think they would be mindful of human rights offences after the sordid history of education and segregation.
Oh that's right. Just fifty years ago, some teachers wouldn't teach ABC's and 123's to black kids alongside white kids. Just as some teachers swear by the Supreme Court decision of Roe v. Wade as the indisputable law of the land, other teachers swore by Plessy v. Ferguson, the landmark Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation in public accommodations under the doctrine of "separate but equal".
Then along came Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. This victory paved the way for integration and the civil rights movement in 1954.
How did teachers respond? Quite a few adopted legal tactics to stall integration and cooked up "Freedom of Choice" plans (Choice... there's that word again!) that were used to circumvent desegregation. In theory, "Freedom of Choice" allowed blacks to attend any school in a district, but black parents were threatened with losing their jobs and homes, and some even had crosses burned on their property if they tried to send their children to white schools.
The governor of Virginia even closed public schools to thousands of students rather than desegregate, while teachers stood by in obstinate approval. In some areas, anti-integration sentiments ran so deep that National Guard troops even had to be called to Little Rock, Arkansas to escort African American students, such as Ruby Bridges, into formerly all white schools because individuals within groups like the NEA refused to treasure, respect and value all children.
In many places it took ten to fifteen years for schools to become integrated. When it's demonstrated that teacher doesn't always know best, you'd think that the NEA would be think twice on controversial human right issues like abortion. I think I was in first grade when my teacher told me that we should learn from our mistakes through history.
Again, it's not all that hard to think through:
Teachers and educational leaders - as pure as their motives may be on topics such as segregation and abortion advocacy – are fallible creatures and are subject to human vices like the rest of us lowly mortals. (That's history!)
The bottom line is that if an individual school teacher wants to indulge in a philosophy that is in direct opposition to the safety of all children and decides to join a mob of unstable fanatics waving around bloody clothes hangers after work, she is free to do so - on her own time and dime. But the NEA should have no hand in such issues. It is not their job to issue mandates on social and moral issues.
Math lesson + history lesson + common sense = the political extremism of the minority should not foisted upon the neutral majority.
Isn't it time the NEA got schooled on this issue? Class is dismissed!
- Gingi Edmonds


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