Why is the NEA in bed with the liberals?  Why are there are plethora of liberals in the education profession?
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As a former educator with 40 years of experience as a teacher and high school principal, my guess is that most teachers are graduates of colleges and universities that are the hot beds of liberalism. Be bolstered, however, by the possibility that many more conservatives are entering the profession. At least that was the trend when I retired five years ago. Some see the flaws of the liberal bible.
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A dumping grounds for the libs inane rhetoric, maybe, but they all jumped ship on this question, didn't they?\n\nBTW- I see that Mini busted you. Funny how libs swear up and down that you can't string two words together, yet she managed to see right through you anyway.
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You would have a better chance getting an intelligent answer to your question on imbecilicdriviel.com.  \n\nThe communist on this site barely know how to read and if it wasn't for spell check, 90% of them couldn't write.  Why would you think they would they be at all interested in books.\n\nBTW - I love her.  I just can't figure out if it's because she's so in your face to these cowardly scum or if it's that she never writes a word without an objective, verifiable source.  You know, like Dan Rather used to do before he sold out and started making stuff up to suit his own agenda.\n\nFunny how the priorities in the country are different for different people.  Ann Coulter who is so popular because she always uses easily referenced sources is vilified by the left while those same people give a lying scumbag liberal a national anchor spot making millions a year for 20+ years.\n\nAnd the left is actually scratching it's head in disbelief that have not won a significant congressional or senatorial election since 1994.  \n\nAnd they think they're smart for exactly what reason?
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There are two schools of thought on the reason why:\n\n#1, and most popular with the intellectual elite, is that educated people become more liberal, that only the uneducated are conservative.\n\n#2 places the blame firmly on the 1960's, when people educated in college who later became teachers carried thier political views from that activist times into thier classrooms and are unable to reconcile thier difference.\n\nFor the most part, however, NO professor likes someone to contradict them, and claiming that the professor is a liberal and close minded are popular explanations for failing, rather than the rampant drinking and partying.
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Hello,\n\nReading some of the comments below I can see our liberal government is doing the job they set out to do since the 1950's.\n\nFear is a wonderful motivator. \n\nAnd, the communistist who run our nation are and have always been Pro-Earth and Con-God (Creator of the Universe).\n\nIf you ever read even parts of the Communist Manifesto, you will learn how they are trained to program our children into not believing in God and "dumbing down the children in school". This is why liberals will soon, very soon, outlaw homeschooling. They will because the majority of homeschooled children are taught about God and why they are special in this world.\n\nSo, global warming is just another layer to be peeled from their onion of life.\n\nDoes this make sense to you?\n\nYou can read this article from AmericanDaily below:\n\nHope this helps you.............................................  :-(
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The majority of Democratic leaders where "educated" (aka brainwashed) in the liberal, eastern colleges.  If you do an honest study of the back-round of most of those professors, you will find that they have STRONG links to communism.  If we are allowed to believe in God, then we wouldn't listen to those Jacobi's. Then, their poor little feelings would be hurt.  I'm not against education, but I cannot see where the Ivy League schools are educating rather than indoctrinating.
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This is absolutely true in some cases.  The liberal side is very good at it as well.  Public schools are a good example of disinformation centers.  Please read "The Communist Manifesto" by Karl Marx, and then take a good look at how your local schools operate.  Listen to C-span for a bit.  Then you'll understand just how right you are.  Great observation.
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Fascism,gotta love it!\nAs to your question, I find liberals are generally people who are close minded, full of themselves, and desperate to be 'in'. I also find them in large annoying numbers at our local coffee bars, spouting their rhetoric. poop!
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I had 2 very liberal professors  fail me because I questioned them on issues they knew absolutely NOTHING of...it regarded the politics of and the true facts surrounding Bosnian War and their defending the arrest of Slobodan Milsevic. ( I spent three years there as a consultant).  They also attempted to paint a picture of Nelson Mandela as a man of dignity, honor and honesty.  I protested that as well - especially because I locked horns with the South African Communist Party that he was supported by 100 percent.   I protested it as being "propoganda" that it truly was and claimed that these students , their parents and those who offered grants for their tuition deserved for the students to be taught truth - not some legend or a figment of someones imagination.  Again, I recorded it, protested it and the school defended the lies told.  Again, i gave them one last chance to tell the truth or be embarrassed...they did not .   I recorded the classes.  If they are up to teaching it and letting students practice what they teach all through life, then they must grow a backbone which most of them did not have and back up what they say,   I took the school and these two professors to task and sued them.  I used the same rhetoric that they used when they answered my questions (condescendingly if there is a word).   My attorney was my liberal brother who for 3 years was a paralegal for the ACLU.   I graduated with the grades I deserved and hopefully one day in the next 3-4 years I will teach at the same school....I will teach my version backed with facts and the version the school teaches...backed with what ever facts they have ...but they better make sure that their facts are as close to the truth as possible....
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They aren't understood; they are manipulated for political purposes. Currently, the Reps do it more...labeling liberalism as something so bad.
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Academia is so liberal because they learn so much about everything that the feel they must accept it all.  So they begin to think of everything as relative, including right and wrong.  Eventually they think they are so much smarter than everyone because they are so 'open-minded' that they lose their souls in their quest to be 'open-minded'.  Not only will they support a religious Jihad that kills innocent people but they will blame it on the innocent people that are killed because we 'just don't understand' our attackers.  So, in summary, academia is so liberal because they want to be relativists about everything.  They forget that to have shades of gray, there needs to be black and white.
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because they blame everything on the liberals and don't know what they are talking about...\n\nthe conservative solution is to cut money from already failing schools... this will somehow magically make it do better?
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Excellent question and I bet that you will not get an intelligent answer.  If liberals were truly open minded you would have balanced political representation at all Colleges & Universities, instead of the typical 80 - 20% split that currently exisits.  If liberal were truly open minded they would not attack Christianity and defend it like they do other religions.  Liberals are the epitome of doulble standards.
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Because the NOW is the political muscle of the Democratic Party, and anyone the Democrats don't like gets buldozed over.\n\nIf you're looking for ideals and credibility from Liberals, you're gonna be looking for a LONG time.
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If it's not the worst, it's certainly in the running.\n\nUnder-funded???  Beth, you are mad!  There is more money wasted on public education in this country than is spent altogether in most other countries.\n\nThe problem seems to be the extent to which two basic entities have taken over control of what was traditionally a very locally-controlled institution.  The first is the teacher's union, which turns upside-down every value that made those great old teachers I had as a child so worthwhile.  They stayed in their jobs because they were good at them, got good results.  Nowadays the union protects the marginal, makes war on the superior teacher (makes the rest look bad, you know), and makes seniority virtually the only criterion they will consider valid.\n\nThe other thing that happened was the federal government getting involved in funding programs that they then control.  This means the local school board has less and less control over what goes on in their school, because they don't dare risk losing that federal money.  So the textbooks are all Politically Correct, even if they don't teach the kids anything useful at all.  The teachers are actually disciplined for creativity, because they can't get any creative program approved if it cannot be used "for everyone."  They are ordered to teach for the purpose of preparation for the exit exams, and discipline is nothing but a game they play with the students.\n\nI do not envy any kid going to a public school these days, but one:  the one who had a black tee shirt that read "School prepares you for the real world, which also s**ks."
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Because they were all taught in liberal institutions. For those of you who don't believe it is check out the number of liberal reports on the payrolls compared to conservative reports. For that matter check out the number of liberal professors at institutions of higher learning compared to conservative. Its appalling the unfair balance but you can certainly understand it. Those qualified conservatives that could teach are probably making a whole lot more money working in the private sector doing a real job.
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One of the communist party's objectives in the middle 1960's was to infiltrate the American education system.  If you ask me they have succeeded.  Our education system is full of socialists and communist apologists.  They try to brainwash you by making you feel inferior if you challenge their ideas.  Unfortunately, many young Americans fall for their hogwash and carry those ideas on into maturity.  Thankfully, experience drives intelligent people towards the conservative perspective.  You know what they say, "if you are not a liberal when you are young then you have no heart and if you are not a conservative when you are old then you have no brain".