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The NEA recommends Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals for teachers:

Recommended Reading: Saul Alinsky, The American Organizer

A Resource for Every Organizer & Anyone Contemplating Action in Their Community

NEA recommends the following Saul Alinsky books to those members of our Association who are involved in grassroots organizing, especially Association Representatives (ARs) — also known as building reps or shop stewards — and leaders at local affiliates.

Among the rules the NEA recommends include Alinsky's posted here:

Alinsky devised and proved thirteen tactical rules for use against opponents vastly superior in power and wealth.

   1. "Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

   2. "Never go outside the experience of your people.

   3. "Wherever possible go outside of the experience of the enemy.

   4. "Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.

   5. "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.

   6. "A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.

   7. "A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.

   8. "Keep the pressure on.

   9. "The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.

  10. "Major premise for tactics is development of operations that will maintain constant pressure upon the opposition.

  11. "If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside.

  12. "The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.

  13. "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. 

"The real action is in the enemy's reaction. The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength. Tactics, like life, require that you move with the action." 

Alinsky was hated and defamed by powerful enemies, proof that his tactics worked. His simple formula for success... 

"Agitate + Aggravate + Educate + Organize"

  Agitate? Aggravate? EDUCATE? Organize? Does this sound like healthy behavior for teachers? And who are the powerful? Who are the enemy?The taxpayers who pay the salaries of the teachers, sometime much more than their own?

  Gateway Pundit has an expose:

But what they fail to mention is that the only reason an Author wrote “Rules for Conservative Radicals” is because the left in this country have been using Saul Alinksy’s books as a blueprint for their political activity. So in order for the right to counter Saul Alinsky’s tactics they must first know them. So the NEA’s attempt to make the works of a radical communist a recommendation for their members a non-issue fails miserably. 

It would be one thing if a teacher read it on their own, but for an organization that has such influence over your children to recommend such a radical piece of literature to their members so that it may help them with their jobs as a Member of the NEA is disturbing….at the very least 

Here's the attitude: show us the cash. Give up the bucks. We need it fast. The Chicago Teachers' Union:

 

And another hero of education: Howard Zinn, of Good Will Hunting fame:

In the late 1940s, Zinn lived at 926 LaFayette Avenue (not "street") in Brooklyn. George Kirschner (not "Kirshner") was a union official at a Brooklyn brewery who, decades later, became a teacher and collaborated with Zinn on a 1995 wall-chart version of A People's History of the United States. The informant's account indicates that the association between Zinn and Kirschner (who died in 2008) began in the Communist Party in the late 1940s. Like Zinn, Kirschner was a World War II veteran, and they could have met through the Communist-infiltrated American Veterans Committee, in which Zinn was a ranking local official.

Worshipped and honored by the elite, particularly the NEA , Howard Zinn was revealed as a communist. No, not a figurative one, but a literal one. An avowed communist. American Spectator:

Even as Zinn's wife was collecting signatures on Communist petitions in New York, Winston Churchill was decrying the "Iron Curtain" that had descended across Europe. The Communist Party that Zinn joined was already widely recognized as the agent of an aggressive tyranny, in thrall to the paranoid dictator Stalin. Zinn evidently pursued his CPUSA activism even after the Soviets exploded their first atomic weapon in 1949 and after the Cold War turned hot with the June 1950 outbreak of the Korean War.

Revelation of Zinn's support for Stalinism is unlikely to affect his standing with liberals, whose main response to the FBI disclosures was to express shock that an official of Boston University tried to get Zinn fired in 1970. Zinn's liberal admirers obviously share his anti-American perspective, in which the FBI poses a greater danger than any foreign enemy.

Oh, I almost forgot a most interesting fact. Saul Alinsky, so admired by Chris Matthews, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, dedicated Rules for Radicals to none other than...Lucifer: