...As I searched my heart and my options back during my high school days, I decided I wanted to be a teacher. No particular academic subject fired this ambition… I simply felt a desire to affect positively the minds and direction of a lot of young people while I lived on this planet. So I figured I’d teach English, a happy middle of the road subject, and try to be a good role model like the many teachers who were influencing me.

...However, there’s a giant organization, the nation’s wealthiest lobbying group, the NEA (National Education Association) union, that is turning the world’s most honorable profession into a self-protecting and self-promoting business. And although it may initially have done good things like getting teachers’ pay raised and long hours shortened and retirement benefits increased, as any good union wants to, the immense power this union has gathered to itself seems to be corrupting its original intents and purposes.  Full Item