Chink in the Armor: Fair Haven Moves to Decertify NEA

Ah, the days when parents were the primary educators of their own children. Those days are long gone, which means strangers typically get first crack at moulding and shaping the human beings your children will become...strangers who have an agenda and a set of values you may not share. What have we become?

Read the article from the Rutland Herald and notice the "long knives" of the State NEA. Could there be a crack in the foundation? How many other districts have teachers that feel the same way? How long will it take for the union to crack down on this dissent?

Here's a report from Vermonters for Better Education:

FAIR HAVEN TEACHERS WANT OUT OF NEA

Some teachers at Fair Haven Union High School have started to organize -- to pull out of the Vermont NEA, the state's teachers union. According to a Rutland Herald article by Brendan McKenna, a group led by social studies teacher Curt Hier wants to break with local and state NEA affiliates and form another union.

Hier needed 20 percent of the bargaining unit (about 60 people, according to the story) to sign a petition to force a referendum to "decertify" the union. He managed to get 17 signers - about five more than necessary.

Hier has issues with the local Addison-Rutland union component as well as with the national organization which, according to a recent Wall Street Journal article, gives "millions of dollars to liberal causes.'

"A lot of us don't want our money going to those causes," Hier said in the Rutland Herald article. "Even if they were giving to my favorite causes, I still wouldn't like it. That should be up to the individual."

For the full story, go to: http://www.RutlandHerald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006603030374