Teachers flee nation's largest union in
a crisis of its own making
Fox News,
by
Aaron Withe
Original Article
Posted By: Mizz Fixxit,
5/6/2024 8:52:53 AM
For the sixth year in a row, the National Education Association (NEA) faces a mass exodus of members. But the blame doesn’t lie with a shrinking student population or loss of funding, as NEA president Becky Pringle would have you believe. The NEA’s blatant prioritization of a radical political agenda at the expense of member representation is the true culprit, resulting in a loss of more than 12,000 members in 2023, per the union’s latest financial report. Union membership rates have been on the downturn for decades.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Quigley 5/6/2024 8:55:19 AM (No. 1712821)
I would like to hope that some of the teachers who are fleeing (seeking political asylum?) the NEA also do so out of concern for the students.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 5/6/2024 9:00:01 AM (No. 1712825)
As a retired public school teacher, I particularly resented how the parasite union pressured young teachers to join. The union offered zero protection for probationary teachers (first 3 years on the job) who could be dismissed without cause.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/6/2024 9:05:11 AM (No. 1712828)
This trend is encouraging and indicates that many teachers are still in the game because they love teaching and education. Others don't mind being the highest paid, the worst in the world and producing students who perform at rock bottom, not being to read or count without using fingers and toes.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 5/6/2024 9:10:02 AM (No. 1712833)
I love it when a liberal plan falls apart, even if the NEA is only one small freckle on a Hippo's butt. Couldn't happen to a better bunch of nobody and nothings who think they're something.
48 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
stablemoney 5/6/2024 9:32:12 AM (No. 1712862)
Teachers could raise their pay by the amount of the union dues by dumping the union.
43 people like this.
Since when do the employees get to determine what the business produces?
Parents are the consumers. And the underwriters. The idea of teachers, or their union determining the curriculum is a notion that needs to be stomped to death.
46 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
jalo1951 5/6/2024 10:14:04 AM (No. 1712883)
Many educators join the union for one reason and one reason only. The ability to have an attorney if necessary.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 5/6/2024 10:14:10 AM (No. 1712884)
Please excuse the second post. First year teachers where I worked paid close to 2 percent off the top of their gross salary in union dues and obtain no benefit other than liability insurance. Late in my career I quit the union and obtained a liability policy from a private insurer for approximately $125 a year. According to my recollection, annual union dues were about $700.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 5/6/2024 10:46:17 AM (No. 1712910)
Sorry, 12,000 leaving from 3 million is irrelevant, less than 1/2 of one percent.
19 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
billa57 5/6/2024 11:11:53 AM (No. 1712936)
The NEA has become the education arm of the Marxists in charge. There is a need for change, big time!
27 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
DiegoDude 5/7/2024 6:31:59 AM (No. 1713431)
The NEA (Not Exactly Academics), cares nothing about education. Just look at their convention statements. Their only concern is maintaining power for those at the top.
14 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
Periwinkel 5/7/2024 7:25:30 AM (No. 1713456)
I wouldn't mind seeing Randi Weingarten and the AFT take a hit on membership. Both unions are worthless when it comes to educating children. The sole purpose of these two unions is to further themselves and the Democrat party. "Students? What students!!"
15 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
smokincol 5/7/2024 8:54:35 AM (No. 1713543)
it's about time .... back when I was growing up teachers, police, firemen etc could not unionize and things were OK until the 60's when john kennedy and then comrade johnson began their quest for "equality, etc" in the nation .... we think diapers is a lousy chief executive but comrade johnson was worse than he was but we didn't have the internet and social media then and had to rely on the bigs (ABC, CBS, NBC & NPR)for our news, which facilitated the rise of the commies in our country, even with the McCarthy hearings
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 5/7/2024 8:59:27 AM (No. 1713547)
Yeah, referring to the 12,000 who ditched the NEA as a "mass exodus" is a real stretch. Maybe when the number increases to say a half million or more, then it will mean something.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Zigrid 5/7/2024 10:08:20 AM (No. 1713609)
The teacher's union...made up of bitter single women in their 50's and 60's is losing the younger ones because of their dictates....they can see the damage that Obama/biden's demands have become and are chosing to op out...good for them....
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
danu 5/7/2024 12:24:09 PM (No. 1713714)
iirc their mission statement of sorts was ''we don't represent students, we represent teachers''
this was their justification for protecting druggies, pervs, paedophiles in class, ''teaching'' your children.
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