The National Education Association (NEA) publishes an “Annual” — a sort of yearbook summarizing the year’s activities and setting forth the organization’s goals. The 1984 Annual proudly proclaims at the beginning that its credo since 1857 has been “To elevate the character and advance the interests of the profession of teaching and to promote the cause of popular education in the United States.”
That’s a noble cause. The Annual’s other 185 pages, however, spell out the NEA’s hidden agenda, and it is hard to see how it promotes the credo’s goals. Most Americans would be shocked to read the official Resolutions adopted at the NEA’s last convention and its “legislative program,” as published in the Annual.
The NEA supports forced busing to achieve racial integration. Resolution H-2 demands forced integration in the public schools through affirmative action, geographic realignment, pairing of schools, grade pairing, satellite and magnet schools, and busing.
The NEA supports socialized medicine. Resolution A-13 supports a “mandatory” taxpayer-financed “national health insurance plan.”
The NEA strongly opposes cutting or limiting taxes. Its legislative program contains the stern warning that the NEA “opposes any effort to amend the Constitution respecting tax limitations or the federal budget and the indexing of future income tax revenues.”
The NEA wants to take funds away from national defense and spend them on federal programs in the schools. The NEA’s legislative program states that “the proposed disproportionate allocation of funds increasing the national defense budget and decreasing federal funding for education must be reversed.”
The NEA supports a nuclear freeze. Its resolution H-27 takes a strong stand against the testing, development, production, emplacement, and deployment of nuclear weapons.
The NEA’s resolution H-28 supports the use of classroom materials in schools at all levels in order to spread the NEA’s anti-nuclear views. Indeed, the NEA has already published its own curriculum called “Choices.”
Curiously, the NEA legislative program supports a dramatic takeaway of traditional women’s rights: military draft registration for young women as well as young men. The NEA also opposes denying federal benefits to those who disobey the law by not registering for the draft. The NEA strongly urges gun control legislation.
The NEA “vehemently” opposes freedom of choice for pupils and parents, but wants an unusual choice for teachers. NEA resolution A-9 opposes tuition tax credits and vouchers to allow pupils’ attendance at nonpublic schools.
At the same time, the NEA wants teachers to have the option to be in the Social Security system or not. In other words, according to resolution E-11, the NEA wants Social Security to be voluntary for teachers even though it is mandatory for most other Americans.
The NEA comes out strongly pro-abortion. Resolution H-16 supports the right to abortion of all women, and the NEA legislative program comes out against any efforts “to eliminate reproductive freedom.”
NEA resolution E-13 wants personnel policies and practices to “guarantee that no person be employed, retained, paid, dismissed, suspended, demoted, transferred, or retired because of … sexual orientation.” The same resolution suggests that affirmative action may be necessary “to overcome past discrimination.” Resolution H-111 urges adding “sexual orientation” to our civil rights laws, also.
The NEA strongly supports affirmative action programs, and states that any plans to weaken them “must be opposed.” The NEA vigorously opposes any efforts to limit the jurisdiction of the federal courts.
The NEA, in resolution E-5, endorses the controversial concept of comparable worth, which rejects market wage-setting factors in favor of wages determined by a subjective evaluation of job “worth” — basically, federal wage control. That’s equal pay for equal work.
The NEA endorses unisex insurance, the system which would forbid using actuarial tables which give women the benefit of lower automobile accident insurance rates (because they have fewer accidents) and lower life insurance rates (because they live longer).
The NEA brags in its Annual that it had 500 delegates elected to the Democratic and Republican National Conventions in 1980. Presumably, the NEA will have as many or more at the 1984 conventions, working to implement its leftwing hidden agenda.
The National Education Association (NEA) publishes an “annual” — a sort of yearbook summarizing the year’s activities and the organization’s hopes and goals. The 1984 Annual proudly proclaims at the front that its credo since 1857 has been “To elevate the character and advance the interests of the profession of teaching and to promote the cause of popular education in the United States.”
The other 185 pages, however, tell a very different agenda of NEA activities. Let’s take a close look at the official Resolutions adopted by the NEA’s last convention, as published in the Annual.
The NEA opposes tuition tax credits and vouchers for attendance at nonpublic schools. A-9, 127
The NEA supports a mandatory taxpayer-financed “national health insurance plan.” A-13, 128
Sexism and sex discrimination must be eliminated. 132 & 133 Metric 137
The NEA endorses what the Supreme Court called the “controversial concept of comparable worth,” which means setting the wages of jobs based on a subjective evaluation of job “worth” without keying them to prevailing market rates. E-5, 143
The NEA wants teachers to have the option to be in the Social Security system or not. In other words, NEA wants it voluntary for teachers even though it is mandatory for most other Americans. E-11, 144
The NEA wants personnel policies and practices to guarantee that “no person be employed, retained, paid, dismissed, suspended, demoted, transferred, or retired because of … sexual orientation.” The same resolution suggests that affirmative action may be necessary “to overcome past discrimination.” E-13, 145
The NEA supports forced integration in the public schools through affirmative action, geographic realignment, pairing of schools, grade pairing, satellite and magnet schools, and busing. H-2, 150
The NEA supports adding “sexual orientation” to our civil rights laws. H-111, 152
Comparable worth, ERA, WEEA, nonsexist language, “reproductive freedom.” H-16,
The NEA urges gun control legislation. H-25, 153
The NEA supports a nuclear freeze on the testing, development, production, emplacement, and deployment of nuclear weapons. H-27, 153
The NEA supports specific materials to use in school classrooms at all levels in order to understand nuclear proliferation. H-28, 153
The NEA had 500 delegates to the Democratic and Republican conventions in 1980.
THE NEA LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM FOR THE 98th CONGRESS: 114
“Any efforts … to eliminate the jurisdiction of the federal courts … to eliminate reproductive freedom; to eliminate busing as a desegregation alternative available to the courts; to weaken affirmative action programs to correct historic racial, sexual, or age discrimination; … must be opposed.” 115
“NEA supports adoption by the Congress of the Equal Rights Amendment …” and full funding of the Women’s Educational Equity Act.” 115
“The proposed disproportionate allocation of funds increasing the national defense budget and decreasing federal funding for education must be reversed.” 115
“NEA supports a complete and immediate halt in the nuclear arms race, cessation of testing….” 115
“NEA opposes any effort to amend the Constitution respecting tax limitations or the federal budget and the indexing of future income tax revenues.” 115
“NEA vehemently opposes tuition tax credits and vouchers at any level, elementary, secondary, or postsecondary.” 116
“Gun control … prescriptive controls on the manufacturing, distribution and sale of handguns.” 117
“Mandatory national health insurance should be enacted and should be provided by public and private agencies to assure health services.” 117
“Draft registration should be based on equal responsibility for men and women, and should not be used as an eligibility criterion for federal financial assistance.” 117
“No federal funds should be expended for the development of nuclear attack evacuation plans.” 117
ML King holiday. Metric system. Oppose any restriction of immigration. 117
Ranove ERA boycott. 120 Against merit pay. 120
NEA is opposed to sex-based actuarial tables. 125
