How "PUBLIC" is Public Education?
by Kathy Brown on May 14th, 2009 | 1 comment
BELOW ARE (SOME) RESOLUTIONS PASSED BY THE NEA IN 2007
1. A-11. Use of Closed Public School Buildings. The Association believes that closed public school buildings should be sold or leased only to those organizations that do not provide direct educational services to students and/or are not in direct competition with public schools.
2. A -15 Federal Financial Support of Public Education. The Association opposes any federal legislation, laws or regulations that provide funds, goods, or services to sectarian schools.
3. A-24 Voucher Plans and Tuition Credits. The Association opposes voucher plans, tuition credits, or other such funding arrangements that pay for students to attend sectarian schools.
4. B-75. Home Schooling . . . The Association also believes that home-schooled students should not participate in any extracurricular activities in the public schools.
5. A-33 Federally or State-Mandated Choice/Parental Option Plans . . . Therefore, the Association opposes such federally or state-mandated choice or parental option plans.
These are the interests that our teachers, willingly or not, support through their dues. Does the ideology represent all who pay their tuition through taxation? How public is public education, anyway?