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To: KLP who wrote (139047)	7/7/2004 1:08:19 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Even I am a member of the NEA- but that does not mean I work for the NEA. I don't know many teachers who are not members- but when you say that the NEA is eliminating history classes, one hopes you aren't desperate enough to argue that what you really meant was any teacher, any where, who just happened to pay dues to the organization. Now, even with that said, I don't even know any teachers (who might even be members of the NEA) who want to eliminate history classes. Why don't you just admit you made up what you said, because you liked the way it sounded? Obviously schools could teach more history classes (and I don't know any teachers who wouldn't like it if they did). Speaking as a teacher, who happened to be on school site council last year, I'd like to tell you that the teacher representatives on that council were willing to cut almost anything, rather than cut classes. Teachers don't WANT to cut classes- if anything, they want to offer more classes- but we have no money to buy books for the classes we want to offer, and budget constraints do not allow us to offer sections unless the sections are full. In our district I have seen zero evidence (truly zero) of the NEA influencing the cutting of classes (or the dumbing down of classes). What influences the dumbing down of classes most is parents who do not encourage their kids to read, at all, and who allow their children to watch TV and play video games for an unlimited amount of time. Such diversions are easy, and the easy path is attractive to all of us- just as you took the easy path in making up a story, when the real story is much more complicated.