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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If all you are really interested in is the liability insurance, then check out Virginia Professional Educators.  No politics.

https://virginiaeducators.org/
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I am long retired.  I began teaching in 1970.  Do you know what the big "reason" to join was in 1970?  Liability insurance and other legal fees.

Also, through the years, I only knew one person who used it.  She was an awful teacher who protested her firing.  That's the only person I knew that used the support of the union.  (She did not win.  Nice girl, highly nervous and all the parents wanted their kids out of her class.  Principal tried to help--she was "on probation" at our school.  She would not accept help.

Our Building Reps --with one exception--were usually weak teachers.  Every year, there would be a big push to "work to the contract"--which meant to leave as soon as your hours were up.  I was an elementary teacher.  Had I "worked to the contract" the kids would have suffered.

[b]Go research what the NEA [/b]and the AFT are promoting--it is not good, solid instruction.  [b]The NEA handbook[/b] even included some pretty dark issues.  I understand they have removed it from their website.

My advice: research the link given above.  [b]Ditch both NEA[/b] and the AFT.  Concentrate on your students and forget the activism.

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Sweetie, are you feeling alright? [b]The NEA stands for the National Education Association and is not one of the FCPS unions we are talking about here. [/b][/quote]

Really?

from the website:
https://www.fairfaxea.org/about-fea

FEA currently represents FCPS employees, including teachers, instructional assistants, custodians, administrative assistants, cafeteria workers and bus drivers.[b] We are affiliated with the Virginia Education Association (VEA) and the National Education Association (NEA).[/b][/quote]

It’s FEA dear. Being affiliated with another organization (NEA) does not mean FEA is the NEA. They are two separate organizations. Duh.[/quote]

It falls under the same umbrella.  But, you know that.[/quote]

I can’t argue with stupid. [/quote]

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