AIP News exclusive commentary
by:  Tom Kovach

Yesterday, the Canada Free Press reported that the National Education Association had listed as "recommended reading" the pro-Communist book Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky.  The CFP report did not mention that it was the number-one choice on the NEA's list.

To prevent the NEA from later altering its Web pages and backing away from this stance under public scrutiny, I have copied the relevant Web pages and converted them to PDF documents.  First, here is the NEA's "recommended reading" list for its members.  (NOTE:  the page's appearance was slightly altered in the PDF conversion process, but the content remains exactly as it was in the original.)

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http://tomkovach.us/Causes/Schools/NEA_Recommended_Reading_LIST.pdf )

Next, here is the page that is linked from the above list.  This is an official NEA book review of Rules for Radicals.

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then right-click this link and open it in a new window:
http://tomkovach.us/Causes/Schools/NEA_Recommends_Alinsky_Rules.pdf )

It is more than obvious from the sequencing and positive review that the National Education Association thinks that such anti-American, pro-Communist material is somehow important to the professional development of publc-school teachers.

The above should come as no surprise.  Conservative political, educational, and religious organizations have been warning about the NEA agenda for many years.  In 1994, I obtained an internal NEA newsletter that proclaimed "gay rights" to be their number-one legislative priority!  So much for a focus on education.

The NEA's radical agenda has, among other things, turned our public schools into "combat zones".  In recent months, an honor student was kicked to death in a Chicago-area school parking lot, an 11-year-old student was set on fire in a Florida school, and a Virginia high-school student first visciously assaulted and then shot an in-school police officer.  My own experience working in such an environment resulted in a recent lawsuit against the Metro Nashville Public Schools.  (You didn't see it in the news media.  Surprised?)

But, now that CFP has focused some sunlight on this particular aspect of the NEA's radical agenda, AIP has done its part to ensure that there will be no sunscreen for them.

Tom Kovach (rhymes with "watch") is an inventor, a horse wrangler, a certified paralegal, a former network talk-show host, and a former USAF Blue Beret.  Tom is the Tennessee state chairman of America's Independent Party. He has also run for Congress. To learn more, click: www.TomKovach.US.