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The coo coo birds leave DC and fly to Detroit for the AFT convention. « Fred Klonsky

The coo coo birds leave DC and fly to Detroit for the AFT convention. « Fred Klonsky:


The coo coo birds leave DC and fly to Detroit for the AFT convention.


As I was flying to DC for the NEA RA I was sent a copy of a challenge to the NEA from a group of standardized testing critics (which I am as well). If you go back and read the posts and comments that followed you know that this got all very heated.
All that anti-union invective seemed  odd to me, since the NEA RA did pass a New Business Item offering support for parents who have their children opt out. This didn’t stop the barrage of attacks on my union and the 9,000 delegates, teachers and other education workers who attended the national meeting.
Now some of these same goofy critics are going after the other national teacher union. The AFT holds their