That should really be no surprise, if you page through the hundred and one pages of resolutions from their 2005 meeting. You’ll find the NEA takes a position on any number of interesting issues, such as:
- Recreational programs for prison inmates (B-22),
- Rent subsidies (A-35),
- Who should be allowed to buy abandoned school buildings (A-11),
- Genocide (B-55),
- Ownership of the news media (B-65)
- Sale of tobacco products (C-3, C-4, C-41)
- Children too young to be in school (C-13)
- Telemarketers (C-16)
- The Electoral College (H-3)
- Constitutional conventions (H-4)
- Nationalized health care for Puerto Rico (H-7)
- Statehood for the District of Columbia (H-11)
- Weapons in outer space (I-1)
- World hunger (I-4)
- Counterintelligence operations (I-6)
- Transportation of toxic waste (I-7)
- Capital punishment (I-11)
- Grave robbing (I-48)
The sweep of it all is truly amazing. And this doesn’t even touch on things more central to actual education, including their views on subject matter, certification, vouchers, and unions.
Oh, and they still don’t like homeschoolers, either (B-73).
