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Paige Denounces Teachers’ Union (USA) | ||||
2004-02-23 | ||||
Education Secretary Rod Paige Denounces Teachers’ Union As Being a ’Terrorist Organization’ Education Secretary Rod Paige called the nation’s largest teachers union a "terrorist organization" Monday, taking on the 2.7-million-member National Education Association early in the presidential election year.
Lets see. It threatens school districts with strikes. Terrorizes parents with dire predictions if they don’t get what they want...... Oh and protect of ’old boy’ network of ineffective teachers. Not exactly a terrorist organization as we here in Rantburg define it... but close...
Yes there is. Paige’s Education Department is working to enforce a law that amounts to the biggest change in federal education policy in a generation. He has made no attempt to hide his frustration with the NEA, which has long supported Democratic presidential candidates. Asked if he was apologizing, Paige said: "Well, I’m saying that I’m sorry I said it, yeah." In a statement released to the media, Paige said he chose the wrong words to describe "the obstructionist scare tactics" of NEA lobbyists. The NEA may not be a terrorist organization.... but they are pretty close with their scare tactics. Said White House spokesman Scott McClellan: "The comment was inappropriate and the secretary recognized it was inappropriate and quickly apologized."
No... he called the NEA terrorists, not the teachers. There *is* a difference.
Translation: They are not teachers but parasites... Gov. Jennifer Granholm of Michigan, a Democrat, said the comments were made in the context of "we can’t be supportive of the status quo and they’re the status quo. But whatever the context, it is inappropriate I know he wasn’t calling teachers terrorists but to even suggest that the organization they belong to was a terrorist organization is uncalled for." Why not? | ||||
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