Originally Posted by outlaw256
ok roadkill, ill give some of that to you. but i knew alot of the there libby teachers.they may be pushing their beliefs in the books but not really union thinkin.i know, im a old man that believed in unions.and i know most have outlived their usefulness.but its still hard for me to turn against them.hell if it werent for them we would still be workin in hell holes and for nothing. im getting off the subject sorry.i still dont think its unions changing the books but the liberal scholors putting thier own slant on history, if thats the case.
I graduated high school in 1959. My Literature teacher, in my Junior year, was, I later found out, the first "Hippie' I had ever seen . . and her syllabus was extremely liberal. Throeau, Ghandi, all the non-violent people who are today considered bench marks and monuments to the liberal movement . .
Since then, the kids I went to school with became teachers, under the tutlidge and mentoring of those same liberals . . Do you think they (My Peers) are any less liberal? And those same people are the strongest members of the NEA . .
As for Unions anyplace else. They had a place for establishing human rights for the average worker, but, they have outlived their usefullness. Try this on for sze. 98% of the Union money spent for "Political Education" went to Obama and the Democrats in 08, and they've raised even more to re-elect him in '12 . . Your union ask you if that was OK? They don't. They just spend YOUR dues as they damned well see fit!
Back to the Teacher's Unions . . They have, for over 35 years dictated syllabus and method in the classroom, because, "They know better than you or I" . . And that's why your eighth grader can't read, "See Dick Run".
Or did the average student get a lot dumber in the last 35 or so years?