Everything but education

The "National Education Association" (NEA) has held its annual convention and amazingly paraded its Leftist orthodox views for all (who are paying attention) to see.

I wholeheartedly acknowledge that educating kids today is a difficult task--too many people are expecting teachers to parent kids rather than simply teach them. But what kills me about the NEA is that they take positions on a host of issues that have next to no relation to education and any relationship that IS present cuts against the NEA's policies. For example, why does the NEA need to take a position on Wal-Mart's "labor practices"? Assuming that the NEA SHOULD take a position, I would submit that the NEA should support the right to work, good economic value and more--not less, capitalism. Read the article for yourself. We've literally THROWN money at education over the past four decades and the problem has only gotten worse. As long as the education unions advocate on behalf of Liberal public policy and the concomitant social pathologies, teachers' jobs will NOT get any easier.