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janice, if i were a teacher in America and was asked, by my union to wear a colored shirt for ANY POLITIC-
AL CANDIDATE, i'd be close to fed up with my union. In Australia, certainly the union I was involved in would
never ever consider it. Public education is not about political indoctrination. Those that see it so are wrong.

Guessing this is a repeat, but anyway..

Teachers union e-mail touting Obama scorned
Michael Drost
October 2, 2008

An e-mail distributed by a Virginia teachers union encouraged members to bring politics into the
classroom by wearing blue in support of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama and
simultaneously suggested that the union's voter registration efforts include those "you teach."

The Virginia Education Association (VEA) e-mail drew strong criticism Wednesday from elected
Republican officials and some residents after the state Republican Party obtained a copy.
The author of the e-mail conceded Wednesday that the e-mail should have been worded differently.

The VEA is an affiliate of the National Education Association, the country's largest teachers union.

"Schools should be perfectly neutral," Virginia resident Julie Aurora
said Wednesday. "They should teach students how to think, not what to think." ...........

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/02/teachers-union-e-mail-touting-obama-draws-backlash/

ps, maybe consider josey...'s list without the Hitler bit.