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Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Ben Velderman and the end of the NEA. « Fred Klonsky

Ben Velderman and the end of the NEA. « Fred Klonsky:


Ben Velderman and the end of the NEA.

The return of Ben Velderman.
Last week it was the crazy group of standardized test critics who jubilantly predicted the death of teacher unions.
This week it my old stalker from the right-wing, Ben Velderman of the Education Action Group.
You remember Ben. He’s the one who filed a Freedom of Information Act request last year for all my work emails and for my personnel file.
Predicting and rooting for the death of teacher unions is nothing new. What’s interesting is the broad political spectrum it now includes.
Ben basis his prediction on the decline in union membership.
He gives Wisconsin as an example.
This is like the old joke about the guy who murders his parents and then asks for mercy from the judge because