Article...Teachers Union to Honor Clinton...
Monday, March 26, 2001 11:25 a.m. EST.
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The United Federation of Teachers will honor disgraced ex-president Bill Clinton in May with its coveted John Dewey humanitarian award for advancing pro-education and labor policies.
The impeached Democrat will give what is being described as a "major address" at the UFT's annual convention in New York, according to the New York Post, which broke the news of the Clinton honorific Monday.
The invite stunned some rank-and-file educators.
"This is just insane," Brooklyn history teacher Morris Martin told the paper. "Clinton isn't a role model for adults, let alone children."
Martin wondered whether Sen. Hillary Clinton, who steadfastly defended teachers unions during her campaign last year, had anything to do with garnering the award for her husband.
"Clinton is not worthy of getting a dog tag around his neck," fellow educator Brenda Fuqua told the Post. "He's brought more disgrace to this country than any other president."
But UFT spokesman Ron Davis defended the move, explaining, "We think that during his two terms in office, Bill Clinton has done much to improve the lives of American families."
The teachers union honor comes amidst reports that the ex-president is being hit with a raft of speaking engagement cancellations, with the American Spectator Online reporting Monday that as many as 25 Clinton invites have been rescinded.
And while a student group at New York's Cardozo School of Law saw fit to bestow an international peace award on Clinton last week, three weeks ago he was reduced to addressing a Tennessee convention of Ripley's Believe It or Not executives. |
