Teachers’ Union To Consider Abortion Issue

“But a lot of times we found sneaky ways that the union supports things that we don’t believe in.”

NO! Say it isn’t so! Unions operating underhandedly, potentially illegally…and the boy king, along with the clowngress, wants to EXPAND their powers…

God help us…

Live free or die.

Maybe they just discovered the source of their future?

maybe a combination of the two…. their future paychecks and a strategy to appeal to the noncommited

Conservative teachers within the NEA will call for

All fifteen of them?

Good question Positive Phototaxis. I just wonder how may they do number?

You would think the teachers union would be against abortion, simply because more children = more work for teachers.

It’s kind of like the steelworkers union wanting to limit the number of bridges being built.

Dopes.

A poll asking how many teachers have had abortions might prove educational and enlightening.

Hahaha…“Conservative Teachers within the NEA”.  Now THAT is funny.  There might just be one or two out there….I was one once.

Good question Positive Phototaxis. I just wonder how may they do number?

I will bet there are a lot more than the officers are willing to admit to.
My mother, was a good, solid conservative pro-life Anglo-Catholic until the first women were ordained, at which point she became a good, solid conservative pro-life Roman Catholic. She taught in New York State for over thirty years, and she chafed at having to be a member of the Union, but New York is not a right to work state.  If you do not join the union, you do not teach.  I think we might just find out how many conservatives are involuntary menbers.

I hope they can make a difference!  They are certainly shining light upon a dark issue.

You would think the teachers union would be against abortion, simply because ... they are working with children.  They are supposed to be good for children.

If my mother (retired educator) and her friends (some retired, some not) are any example, conservative teachers are few and far between.  Probably only found in orthodox parochial schools, which are also few and far between.

Teacher Unions don’t need no stinkin’ chillins:

The 700 or so teachers can practice yoga, work on their novels, paint portraits of their colleagues _ pretty much anything but school work. They have summer vacation just like their classroom colleagues and enjoy weekends and holidays through the school year.

“You just basically sit there for eight hours,” said Orlando Ramos, who spent seven months in a rubber room, officially known as a temporary reassignment center, in 2004-05. “I saw several near-fights. `This is my seat.’ `I’ve been sitting here for six months.’ That sort of thing.”

Ramos was an assistant principal in East Harlem when he was accused of lying at a hearing on whether to suspend a student. Ramos denied the allegation but quit before his case was resolved and took a job in California.

Because the teachers collect their full salaries of $70,000 or more, the city Department of Education estimates the practice costs the taxpayers $65 million a year. The department blames union rules.

“It is extremely difficult to fire a tenured teacher because of the protections afforded to them in their contract,” spokeswoman Ann Forte said.

Jackie,

John Stossel did a piece on this a few years back… and John Taylor Gatto included it in at least one of his books several years back. Obviously little has changed.

The part of the article that struck me was:

The union represents more than 228,000 employees, including nearly 90,000 teachers.

So the school system has significantly more administrative/support positions than teachers?

Good point on orthodox parochial schools being few and far between,Florida Anglican. My youngest son went to a Roman Catholic elementary school for a few years. I was a member of the parish’s pro-life group,and we sponsored a poster and essay contest on the theme of Respect Life. I asked the principal, a nun, to promote the contest in the school. She refused, saying the topic was too controversial. Too controversial! She did allow us to ask individual teachers if they wanted to promote it in their classrooms, and we got some good entries. We got really good entries from the local fundamentalist Christian school. I guess the principal was afraid of offending the many non-Catholics, and probably non-Christians, who used the school as a cheap private school for their little darlings.

Nellie,

We are fortunate that there is a long-established conservative Christian school (formerly Episcopal, currently independent, but hopefully to soon be Anglican) in our town, K-8.  There are several non-Christian students.  Nothing is watered down for them at all.  We attended the 8th grade graduation this year (which was actually a full-out service conducted by our Anglican priest who is still the chaplain), and the only thing I saw was the one and only non-Christian student (probably Hindu, but I’m not sure) in the class just didn’t say the responses or take communion.  Otherwise she participated in everything else…and I mean everything.  Jesus is very much a part of the school, Praise God!