NEA NEA

7/16/2025

July 3, 2025
Washington DC
The National Education Association (NEA) is the largest labor union in the US with 2.8 million members and represents public school teachers and other personnel, faculty and staffers at colleges and universities, retired teachers etc., and college students preparing to become teachers. In 2023 its budget was $399 million with an endowment of $428 million.

Would you want these people in front of your girls?

I didn't know whether to put this in the School Category or the Comedy Category, so I put it in both.

ringing Latin phrases
pounding of podium not required
unam, sanctam, catholicam et apostolicam Ecclesiam
duxerunt et adduxerunt
Deus, Deus meus
Ecce

word etymology of echo
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Middle English ecco, from Middle French & Latin; Middle French echo, from Latin, from Greek ēchō; akin to Greek ēchē sound

In the days of slaves, hoop earrings were the only jewels that slaves were allowed to wear, hence their name "créoles", hoop earrings in French.

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John Smith link

10/18/2025 07:55:07 pm

John Taylor Gatto noted how a vast economic system irrevocably committed to the current schooling tyranny has an unreleasable deathlock on our children’s future. The arbitrary, capricious schooling policies come down from a vertical pipeline with such ingrained anonymity that school administrators have not the slightest idea from where they originate. A gamut of school unions dedicated to every occupational classification down to aides, crowd out the ostensible, original function of “education”; unions were originally part of the centralized master planning from the turn of the 19th century–compulsory dumbed-down schooling was founded on unions. They constantly diminish the interests of teachers as ever increasing numbers of non-instructional classified personnel, who exercise no direct educational function for students’ benefit, are continually hired, padding school-district employment rolls so that the expense per student continually rises with continually diminishing educational effectiveness, each new hire contributing union dues with no bargaining or interest advantage to the teachers who actually manage children, resulting in continually diminishing compensation. Union bosses comprise the top layer of an elite unable to be overthrown that relegates virtually all children to soul-prison from K-12 and beyond. …
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Mr. Gatto calls schooling the largest public works project in history, the largest business in America and probably in the world. Textbook companies, testing companies, schooling paraphernalia and school-lunch suppliers–to diminish the autonomy of families and make the isolated individual dependent on government–university educational-psychology departments and the federal government, a gobsmacking breadth of interlocking economic and political interest-sectors, together constitute an immovable, self-interested institutional block to improving the prospects for children. …
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The corporate consumerist and human resources management stakes in schooling have the effect that if children were ever to be taught self-reliance, autonomy and free thinking–public schools and colleges are far more rigidly doctrinaire than parochial-religious schools–if young people were ever to attain independence from the constant requirement of being taught what to think and minute oversight of what they do at all times, in schooling and employment, there would be a terrible crash in the existing, dependency-based economy.

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