This courtesy of Jack Kemp

Teachers and Coaches Should Quit NEA in Wake of Kaepernick Award

From the article:

"In this ideological hothouse, it isnâ€â„¢t surprising that the National Education Association bestowed its â€Å“Human and Civil Rights Awardâ€Â upon Colin Kaepernick on Sunday evening, July 1, at the Minneapolis Convention Center. He was among a dozen luminaries so honored, a roster that included former First Lady Michelle Obama, the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, Muslim Girls Making Change, and LGBT activist Chris Sgro. Kaepernick recently started up his own organization, the Know Your Rights Camp, to â€Å“raise awareness on higher education, self-empowerment, and instruction to properly interact with law enforcement in various scenarios.â€Â NEA President Lily Eskelsen Garcia was effusive in her praise:

The human and civil rights champions we honor tonight are the epitome of the fierce urgency of now that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke about in his â€Å“I Have a Dreamâ€Â speech. Through their deeds and actions, they have demonstrated remarkable courage and conviction to stand up for racial and social justice. They have shown an unrelenting resolve and ferocity to make a real difference for public education, students and our nationâ€â„¢s future. They are shining examples of social justice activism, fighting against injustices every day, and making sure that our great nation lives up to its promise.

Such sanctimony underscores how far to the Left the NEA really is.

But what if a sizable portion of the roughly three million teachers and other school employees represented by the union object to their dues payments being used this way? Until a few weeks ago, dissatisfied NEA members, along with fee-paying nonmembers, would have problems challenging union paycheck deductions.

That changed on June 27, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in Janus v. AFSCME Council 31 that the practice of forcing nonmember state and local public employees to pay partial dues (â€Å“agency feesâ€Â) to a union violates worker free speech. The decision overturned over 40 years of monopoly representation practiced in nearly two dozen states and curbed the future political clout of the National Education Association and other public-sector unions. According to internal estimates, the NEA alone may lose 200,000 members this year and another 100,000 next year."

Read it all at Townhall.

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