For those of us who chose to be targets rather than have our
souls chiseled from our bodies,
we discovered the truth behind our unions.
They not only do not care about teacher abuse, they
partake in it. Several of the teacher stories, detail evidence
that teacher abuse
is on the unions' agenda as well as the administrations. (See Dan Geery, Idaho, Jeff La Marca,
California, Karen Horwitz, Illinois.)
As we observe the push for campaign reform in Washington DC, in
order to keep our government from
being beholden to corporate America, we are unaware that a similar
conflict of interest agenda
is in place in education. However, our legislators are not
demanding reform, either unaware of its
existence, or unconcerned that the major institution that is
charged with the responsibility of maintaining
professionalism in our schools, is giving the old wink to teacher
abuse, directly and indirectly taking
the position that boys will be boys, administrators
will have power trips. You don't like it, find other work.
Our unions are powerful corporate institutions that have the ability to impact education.
They have the power to force change. Instead, they maintain status quo. Why?
Unions lobby against vouchers, school choice, and home schooling knowing
that these alternative choices might force accountability on the education monopoly now in place
and break down the administrators' ability to conduct power trips against teachers using tax payers'
monies. If unions were authentically behind teachers, the source of their corporate power, why would
they want to maintain the monopoly and its system of abusing teachers? Given the trusting nature
of teachers, they spend from $400 to even $800 per year in union dues, believing they are being
protected
when iin truth the money serves to enslave them. As you read the examples below, you will see that unions are
desperately seeking a cover up, using aggressive means to assure
they prevail. Ask yourself why.
All over the country, teachers are discovering that unions are more than failing them; they are their
enemies. The story of Damaris Daughtery, of Miami Dade, Florida, helps to reveal the authentic nature of unions.
She is an attorney, whose husband is a teacher. Just as every teacher
gradually comes to know that
education operates above the laws of the land, Daugherty discovered
the same. As she heard her teacher husband's tales of
horror, and legally impermissible occurrences in his school, she
realized here was an area that needed her
advocacy; her legal background enabled her to take action unlike the thousands of teachers who simply had
to adjust to what is.
She started an organization called TRAC to give Miami-Dade teachers a voice. She had articles published
in the local newspapers detailing outrageous corruption, including multi-million dollar purchases by the Miami
Dade School District that paralleled the notorious Pentagon toilet seat corruption of years past, where it was later
discovered that hundreds of dollars were spent on toilet seats. (That was the beginning of many people's knowledge
of how our government worked behind the scenes and was most memorable both because it proved government
did not care about our money, and because the toilet served as an
icon for where these people's minds functioned.)
However, it didn't occur to most people, that our system of education operated in similar ways, since most
of us believe that "no one would be so low as to sell out our children."
THE BIRTH OF TRAC
Damaris Perez Daugherty, an attorney who is married to a teacher, founded TRAC. Her husband was once an
executive but several years ago, when his company relocated out of Miami, they decided not to move. He took his
severance package and decided to become a teacher. He wanted to "give something back." He went back to college
to obtain his second Masters and in Jan. 2001 he began teaching.
When he began teaching, he started bringing home information about compensation, benefits, UTD, etc. The more
Damaris read, the more she couldn't believe how teachers were being treated. Though no fan of the Board or previous
administrators (the jury is still out on Stierheim, the
superintendent) the entity whose conduct was most appalling was UTD's. UTD is paid
A LOT of money by teachers to represent them. Teachers rely on UTD to keep the Board on the straight and narrow.
UTD OWES TEACHERS A FIDUCIARY DUTY - one of the highest levels of duty at law.
Why is UTD not being a watchdog? Why isn't UTD in the Board's face and in the face of the administrators ensuring
that abuses and violations of the contract don't happen? Why isn't
UTD tracking the district's dollars BEFORE they are
spent on questionable deals and lining lobbyists' pockets and demanding those dollars be directed toward the classrooms
and toward pay raises for teachers? They certainly have the staff, time and money to do it and that is their raison d'etre.
But it's impossible to look out for the interests of the people
you represent when you are so busy dealing in self-help.
Damaris began speaking to her husband's colleagues and learned there was great dissatisfaction among teachers.
Teachers feel unappreciated, demoralized and powerless and rightfully so. It became obvious that if someone didn't take
action, the teacher shortage in Miami-Dade was going to reach a crisis point beyond our wildest dreams. Through these
conversations the Teacher Rights Advocacy Coalition (TRAC) was born.
TRAC is dedicated to empowering educators and elevating their status. TRAC recognizes that one of the most important
ways to improve education is to treat teachers as the professionals they are and give them the respect they deserve. TRAC
is working tirelessly to improve conditions for teachers in this county. Enclosed you will find information about TRAC's
mission. We encourage anyone that wants additional information about TRAC to call. The opinions and concerns of every
teacher, taxpayer, and parent in this county are of vital importance to TRAC. Together we can get education on the right
TRAC.
It's high time the Board, the Administration and UTD were head accountable. If you agree with our agenda, please talk
to everyone you know about our grassroots movement and encourage them to get involved. We look forward to working
with you.
Although Daugherty focused only on Miami-Dade, for several years NAPTA followed her work realizing what she was doing
needed to be done on a national level. Our belief was that just as one teacher alone could never accomplish much taking
on such a huge power, nor could one district or even one state. It had to be a national organization to stand up to all
this malice financed by large sums. NAPTA discovered that the local union smeared Daugherty
in the same way Horwitz saw her district
smearing citizens attempting to enforce change and accountability in her district. Using media, law suits, political connections
to state government, testimony for fees "experts" or whatever and whomever money could buy, the truth was
going to be buried.
Teachers! - It's Time To Take A Stand
TEACHER RIGHTS ADVOCACY COALITION (TRAC) is an organization dedicated to bringing about reform in the area
of education. We recognize that the best place to begin educational reform is to treat teachers as the professionals they are
and give them the respect they deserve.
For a very long time, teachers in Miami-Dade County have failed to receive the respect they deserve from the School Board,
Administrators and their union. They have had to work in overcrowded classrooms, with little or no support and dig into their
own pockets to buy supplies needed to do their jobs. During this same time, the School Board has squandered millions of
dollars in bad land deals, awarded questionable contracts and has engaged in the ongoing promotion of nepotism and cronyism.
And where has UTD been through all of this?
As if the School Board's conduct were not bad enough, teachers in Dade can't trust their union either, the very people paid
handsomely to represent them. Ask yourself, WHY?
Why does UTD charge teachers membership dues that are nearly twice what they are in Broward and Palm Beach, nearly
three times as high as other school districts in Florida and possibly the highest in the country in any right-to-work state? Does
UTD want that money so it can be a watchdog for teachers, battling the Board and Administration on a daily basis to ensure
the contract is enforced and teachers receive the best benefits, compensation and working conditions?
No UTD takes that money . . .
- So that UTD President Pat Tornillo can be paid a quarter of a million dollars a year, not including numerous other perks
he doesn't report.
- So that Tornillo can pay 11 of his handpicked lieutenants over $100,000 a year.
- So that UTD can have fancy offices and spend $2 million for upscale furniture and marble floors.
- So UTD staffers can take, our of your dues, interest-free loans that go unpaid for years.
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- So that UTD can send millions of dollars to FEA, AFT and AFL-CIO's PACs to elect politicians whose views and
agenda may be contrary to your personal beliefs.
Teachers feel demoralized and rightfully so. It's time for a change. Teachers need to know
they are not trapped
between a corrupt Board and a corrupt union. They have options. TRAC is dedicated to working
with teachers to explore
and promote those options. Join this grassroots effort to force a positive change in
education in Miami-Dade. We don't want
your money, just your ideas and enthusiasm.
Together, let's give something back to educators - morale, empowerment, respect and options
and get education on the
right TRAC!
Teachers all over the US can just substitute their district
for Miami-Dade
and their union for UTD and the story is the
same. We have heard
countless teachers describe the same. One of the issues Daugherty wrote about included land purchased by their district
for many millions of dollars to build a school, only to have it "discovered" that it was swamp land and unsuitable for building
the school intended without costly adjustments to the land.
Our educational leaders pride themselves in overspending. Why not?
It isn't their money.
One can't help but wonder who owned the corporation
that drained the swamp, or who owned the swamp land that needed a sucker to purchase it. Most of all, hearing
swamp land conjured up thoughts of the ultimate swindle - swindle being the operative
word describing what our schools are doing to the taxpayers.
Daugherty Gets the Customary Smear
Read about Daugherty becoming the target of a smear campaign initiated by the UTD, their local union. NAPTA took
action, striking at the heart of the propaganda, one of NAPTA's intended
purposes.
IF YOU CAN'T BEAT 'EM, SMEAR 'EM.
THE UNION DIDN'T STOP AT DAUGHERTY - SEE THE OTHER TARGETS THEY ATTACKED
PAID FOR COURTESY OF THE TEACHERS
JILDA UNRUH, WPLG-TV (Channel 10) REPORTER HAD THE AUDACITY (according to Tornillo) TO THINK SHE CAN
REPORT THE TRUTH ABOUT THE UNION
In an article that appeared in miaminewtimes.com (http://www.miaminewtimes.com/index.html)
originally published:
September 5, 2002, entitled "Is Jilda Unruh Getting Stiffed? -
After Channel 10's reporter angered UTD's Pat Tornillo,
her education stories stopped appearing," Rebecca
Wakefield reported that Unruh's stories stopped due to Pat
Tornillo's anger.
Letters from the Issue of September 5, 2002
It's no secret that the United Teachers of Dade hates WPLG-TV (Channel 10) reporter Jilda Unruh.
In the past year Unruh has aired a number of stories about the powerful union and its leader, president
Pat Tornillo. They've ranged from exposés on Tornillo's meddling in school district health-care contracts,
to the "deplorable" living conditions of a union-owned apartment building for retired teachers, to the handsome
compensation Tornillo enjoys as head honcho ($225,429), to the declining number of teachers electing to pay
dues to a union some consider a relic of the painful Roger Cuevas era.
This past May 22, after fruitless months of griping and even a power luncheon with Channel 10 management,
Tornillo had had enough. He penned a "Dear John" letter to station vice president and general manager John
Garwood. In earnest prose, Tornillo decried the "biased, slanderous, libelous, and inaccurate news coverage
of Channel 10, as it relates to the United Teachers of Dade.... UTD will challenge WPLG's 2005 licensure
renewal and have [sic] engaged a former FCC attorney in Washington, D.C. to represent our claims. Additionally,
we are interviewing [libel] representation locally."
Garwood made a cool reply to Tornillo's challenge on June 12, inviting UTD, essentially, to go pound sand.
Of course he used more legally advisable language. Regarding the lunch to which Tornillo invited Garwood and
news director Bill Pohovey (after a particularly cutting Unruh story last November depicting the union as borderline
slumlord for allowing its federally subsidized housing project to fall into disrepair), Garwood noted that while UTD
was obviously unhappy with the station's stories, staff didn't provide "any specific examples of errors or inaccuracies
in the stories we had aired."
Some version of this scenario is played out every day between media outlets and the unhappy subjects of investigative
reports. Normally a minor pissing match of this sort would be worthy of no more than a brief mention. Except for one
thing. It appears to be working.
Case in point: Two weeks ago, the developing trailer-park soap opera that is the District 6 Miami-Dade County School
Board race produced an amusing subplot involving two overgrown schoolboys working for opposing candidates.
Carlos Manrique, a former state legislator and currently an inexplicably well-paid lobbyist ($71K plus a supplement)
for the school district, was driving around Miami on errands that included work for his candidate, incumbent Manty Morse.
Tailing him in a red Ford LTD with tinted windows was Ralph Arza, a state legislator and high school teacher working
for Agustin "Gus'' Barrera, his brother-in-law and Morse's opponent.
When Manrique noticed this, according to a police report, he stopped his car in front of the Frankie Shannon Rolle
senior center in Coconut Grove; the two men disembarked and began to argue, which eventually devolved into a
brief shoving match. Manrique, in high agitation afterward, called 911 and filed a whiny complaint that came down to,
"[he] pushed [me] first." When the Miami Herald got around to mentioning the incident five days later, the
telling encounter had been reduced to a couple of dry sentences buried halfway down a story about the District 6 race.
The puzzling thing, though, was why, during the high political season, the Herald could afford to wait five days
to break such a juicy tidbit. Perhaps because it thought a competitor already had it? This story began circulating among
school district insiders and journalists within hours after it occurred the afternoon of August 20.
I heard about it the
next day, but was told, "Don't bother, Jilda's all over it."
The story, no doubt to be told in Unruh's highly watchable
news-entertainment style, was supposed to air sometime that Wednesday.
When it hadn't aired by Thursday afternoon, I began to wonder. I ran into Unruh at a meeting and asked her about it.
She confirmed she had been working on a story about the episode, but it was yanked by her editor because
"it was a nice piece for the newspapers, but not 'visual' enough" for Channel 10 viewers. Then I said, "Hey, Jilda,
I noticed you haven't had any investigative reports on the school district in what, months now? Would that have
anything to do with the teachers' union complaining to your station?" (A review of Unruh's public-records requests
made to the school district in the past few months reveals she's been mining several interesting leads, yet the only
education story of note she's aired since May was a brief venting session with former district business manager
Joe Arriola.) I had also heard grousing from some of her sources in recent weeks that at least two other stories
she'd been working on had been canned. Unruh, with a significant look, referred me to station general manager
John Garwood for further explanation. "I'm not officially commenting," she said, shrugging.
UTD spokeswoman Annette Katz largely fails to contain a spasm of glee when told that Channel 10 may be putting
higher hurdles in front of Unruh's stories because of the union's challenge. "Of course, we noticed [the virtual
disappearance of Unruh's reports]," the loquacious redhead grins, "but we didn't know why." Katz says that after
Garwood's response to the initial letter of complaint, UTD obliged his request to provide specific examples of
Unruh's errors and biases in her union stories of the past two years. (Oddly, this wasn't included in the station's
FCC-required public file when New Times reviewed it last week.) "It's not just one story," she grumbles.
'There wasn't anything she did that didn't have claws in it." Katz says Garwood's response was that the station
was "still investigating all the issues, and they will get back to us." While Katz declined to provide a detailed
assessment of Unruh's journalistic "failings," she did offer a
couple of examples. One from a recent story is that
Unruh reported Tornillo's union-provided house was worth one million dollars when it was assessed at $94,172.
(The entire property, plus the house, is worth a million.) 'That is a total factual error," Katz cackles. "She was
trying to make the house sound like a palatial mansion." Katz reveals that UTD has retained two well-connected
Republican litigators, D.C. attorney Stephen Yelverton and Miami attorney Tom Spencer, to pursue the license
challenge.
Garwood, thrilled to be called while on Labor Day vacation, answers: "If I responded every time someone threatens
my license, that's all I'd be doing. We don't wither under threats, just like you guys don't. They think our coverage
is biased, but it's not inaccurate."
Without seeing the UTD's planned FCC complaint, it's hard to evaluate how effective it's likely to be. Historically,
successful challenges to station licenses are uncommon. Attorney Spencer, known locally for his role on the
Bush/Cheney legal team during the 2000 vote-count debacle, admits the unusual case is likely to be "a big uphill battle,"
but if the union can prove that Channel 10 has engaged in egregious behavior over a long period of time, it may convince
the FCC. The last time WPLG's license was seriously challenged was in 1973, when Richard Nixon and cronies
were looking for a way to twist the nipples of the Washington Post by pressuring the FCC to award the licenses
of Post-owned television stations to other operators. One of those stations was WPLG (the call letters come
from former Post owner Philip L. Graham). Unfortunately for Nixon, the effort failed, and WPLG has remained
a Post-Newsweek vehicle.
Asked whether there's a connection between UTD's threats to challenge the license or, as implied in Tornillo's letter,
file a lawsuit and Unruh's long dry spell on education stories, Garwood emits a deep chuckle. "It has nothing to do with
that," he maintains. "We don't run stories just to do them. When we have something, we go with it. Jilda's working on
some things and they will be coming out." Then, sensing the inherent drama in the situation, Garwood adds conspiratorially,
"Stay tuned, there will be more to come."
A virtual guarantee that the highly entertaining clash between two of this town's titans will continue. The union has not
hidden its enmity toward Unruh. After several of her reports, UTD fired back on its Website, or in the pages of its
monthly newsletter to members (Katz produces both). After Unruh's May story, Katz wrote a column titled "Channel 10
makes up their news (again)." In the piece, she crows about the station's ratings slide in recent years, and suggests it may
have something to do with Unruh's "yellow journalism" and Channel 10's obvious lack of a "competent, honest, and ethical
editor" to rein her in.
Unruh's May report on the union's "financial dealings" focused on financial statements, and county and state records
detailing Tornillo's princely salary ($225,429, as mentioned above, plus a $17,700 allowance, and the home and grounds
provided by the union). Unruh included UTD's explanation that Tornillo leases the home from the union and his paycheck
is docked $2700 a month, but she cast doubt on it by saying that the information doesn't appear anywhere on state financial
disclosure forms. The report also revealed that ten UTD executives make more than $100,000 a year, plus allowances and,
for some, allegedly interest-free loans.
The most fascinating aspect of the report, however, was watching the two old pros going at it -- the 46-year-old blond
"Pitbull in Pumps" (a nickname she picked up from an old producer at a station in Tulsa) cornering the cagey
76-year-old union bear with her questions. Unruh: "Why don't you explain [the lease on the home] to us?" Tornillo:
"Why do I have to explain it to you? Why do I have to explain it to Jilda Unruh?" The story ended with an enraged
Tornillo fairly spluttering. "We're going to challenge you from here on every time," he threatened. "Every time you
open your mouth!"
Unruh is no stranger to controversy. Last year lobbyist Ric Sisser (a close ally of Tornillo) filed a lawsuit and won
a temporary restraining order against Unruh after she barged into his hospital room, where he was being treated
for congestive heart failure. She had done so because he had ducked her attempts for weeks to ask him about his
role in school land and health-care contracts.
Then last summer, Unruh's former fiancé, school computer specialist Robert Seitz, made news when he flipped out
after she broke off their relationship. According to Herald reports, Seitz allegedly engaged in stalking-type behavior,
attempted to force a ring on her finger at her office, and faked a Pakistani accent during phone calls to her apartment.
In other cases, Unruh's barnstorming approach has had positive results. Miami-Dade Commissioner Barbara
Carey-Shuler resigned March 14 from her part-time job at the school district after Unruh reported in February
that she was not actually working the hours she had claimed on her time sheets. Unruh and a camera crew
surreptitiously followed Carey-Shuler for two weeks, documenting her activities, which didn't appear to have
anything to do with her job in the school district's alternative-education division. New Times later revealed that the
county's ethics commission and possibly the State Attorney's Office were investigating the commissioner.
Carey-Shuler seems to confirm as much in a lamenting letter sent March 13 to superintendent Merrett Stierheim.
"I find it shocking, repulsive and, quite frankly, unbelievable that I am being investigated for doing my job,
on the allegations of a news reporter who stalked me for 14 days." Stierheim accepted her subsequent resignation
"with regret."
If you went to IF YOU CAN'T BEAT 'EM, SMEAR 'EM you
read about the very same
Annette Katz promising Horwitz, the President of NAPTA, that she
would provide her with the proof that the James Madison
Institute had behaved in anti-Semitic ways as well as Daugherty's
bad girl behaviors.
Over six months later, Horwitz has heard nothing from Katz, and
is not holding her breath, particularly after reading Wakefield's
insightful article. Isn't it interesting that Tornillo is suing over the
kind of alleged libelous statements his union freely puts out? One has only to dig beneath the surface in education to see the
patterns of corruption; there is money galore for silencing methods and to pleasure the leaders, but money becomes scarce for teachers,
supplies, and anything vital to running a first rate educational system. Unfortunately, few have taken the union on and Wakefield's
article illustrates why. NAPTA intends to support the media so that they can uphold their duty to challenge the powers that be.
Consider our site as an ongoing research project designed to do the work media cannot afford to do
financially or timewise, and to provide
information so that reporters cannot be victimized for doing their jobs. We maintain files of documentation to back up teacher
accusations on our site, and will provide contact information for any diligent reporter seeking to expose this outrage.
We have to admit, that many of us have been disappointed with the press. Reporters say they are going to interview
us and then never call back. We contact them and they ignore us or say they don't believe us. Union leaders and attorneys
have told us that the press doesn't care. We have felt deserted.
And this pattern has been occurring all over the country.
In our despair, some of us even began to think they supported
teacher abuse. But as we waded through the murky swamps surrounding
education, we began to discover the limitations of the press. Lack
of funds to do in depth investigation places reporters in a precarious
position if they expose institutions that have the money to go after
them. NAPTA intends to be a free source of documented information
so that the JILDA UNRUH's of the world can do what the press in a
democracy is supposed to do - MAINTAIN THE BALANCE OF
POWER. Kudos to John Garwood and Rebecca Wakefield for standing i
n their integrity. We need more heroes like them.
"We're going to challenge you from here on every time," Tornillo threatened. "Every time you
open your mouth!" Now if a union leader believes he has the right and
the means to silence the press, wouldn't it follow that silencing
teachers would be a given? Think about it.
In case you are wondering why Tornillo's statement was greenish, it was in honor of the swamp land the union
allegedly purchased for one of
their buildings.
IT GETS BETTER!
As with all despots, as they succeed, they expand their horizons. As our country deals with Saddam and the possibilities of nuclear and
biological warfare, our teachers deal with despots with full bellies, from their success in destroying anyone and everyone in
their paths.
JILDA UNRUH DOWN: TIME TO TAKE DOWN DAUGHTERY or in other words, WE DON'T HAVE TO WORRY
ABOUT UNRUH ANYMORE SO GO FOR IT!
A letter was forwarded to members of UTD on September 5, 2002, warning teachers about Daugherty, stating that "Every
signature on her [Daugherty's] petition helps undermine your effectiveness in the eyes of the School Board and the
Superintendent." From NAPTA's perspective, that doesn't make a lot of sense since the School Board and Superintendent
shouldn't be judging teachers by their choice of a representative. Why would wanting change make them less effective? Based
on the frequency of teacher abuse around our nation, it almost sounds like a warning that the School Board and Superintendent
will turn against you if you go against UTD. But the real question here is who is showing the list of signatures to the School
Board and Superintendent so they will judge teachers and why is the UTD suggesting that teachers should fear the judgment
of the School Board and Superintendent? It sure sounds like a veiled warning to NAPTA, and when we hear that, we think
that unions like teacher abuse to keep teachers in place. We do know that unions all over the country have a track record of
ignoring abused teachers.
Subj: Tornillo Threatens Board over Damaris
Date: 09/13/2002 9:32:30 AM Central Daylight Time
From: DamarisDaugherty@cs.com
To: Teacherkh
Believe it or not, Tornillo publicly threatened the Board last night with a lawsuit because I am serving on the Efficiency Committee.
His two issues were that it is a violation of the contract (I have checked and it is not) and the other issue is that it is a conflict of interest.
I didn't realize Pat knew what conflict of interest meant.
UTD must be hemorrhaging. And of course the way to fix this is not by giving better service and lowering your dues. The way
to fix it is by alienating more people, raising your dues and threatening lawsuits right and left. Let's examine the lawsuits for this year
alone.
- First we had the 2 day impasse on which UTD spent loads of money because they had not been
proactive in the first place.
- Then the infamous Right of the Press case where Annette Katz was not being allowed to
sit in the media room. No one
was keeping her from attending the Board meetings, sitting with the rest of us and reporting
on the meetings, but Annette had to
sit in her favorite chair and rub elbows with the big dogs. So UTD spent members' monies
filing a lawsuit.
- Next UTD hired an extremely high-priced DC firm and an outrageously priced local
attorney to represent them on a bogus
claim to try to have Channel 10's license pulled. I guess the old adage is right - "The
truth hurts, especially in the pocketbook."
- Yesterday principals received a letter from Tornillo threatening any principal who
complies with Florida Law and a directive from
the Superintendent which grants other organizations access. This one is priceless. UTD thinks principals should break the law and
completely disregard orders from their boss because PAT SAYS SO. Pat just continues to impress us with his respect for our way
of government. He thinks his contract is above the law.
- I guess once you are on a roll, you have got to keep going. So there was the threat
made last to the Board that I must be
removed from the Efficiency Committee. I am so proud of Pat that he finally figured out what
conflict of interest means. Maybe now
he will start applying it to himself.
Damaris Perez Daugherty
Teacher Rights Advocacy Coalition, Inc.
Our Mission: To promote education by empowering
educators and elevating their status.
305/242-7632
www.teacherrights.org
damarisdaugherty@cs.com
NAPTA'S MESSAGE TO PAT TORILLO
God Bless America. We live in a democracy. We teach that to
our children. We are able to speak because we are
Americans
and we have and will continue to fight for this as we are the best
country in the world. Our media is part of the foundation of our
democracy. Competition and a free capitalistic system is essential
to maintain our democracy.
If the media reported incorrect fact about a person, and the
person's motives were sincere, the person should give the media
the facts, and demand they print full-page apology.
Don't waste teachers' funds suing when our children
and
teachers are suffering within a faulty system.
Don't use your lackeys to go
after your competition. Give your members what they want and prevail with excellence, not by bullying paid for by teachers.
Daugherty will have no ability to form a competitive union if
unions are doing their job.
NAPTA's MESSAGE TO THE MEDIA
Please CLICK ON OUR PLEA BELOW and read a letter to a
reporter who successfully exposed a major corporate scandal.
Teachers, children and our society
need you to stand up to people like Tornillo. When people
in power have to resort to bullying, it
is a sign the victims are threatening their
dirty secrets. Do
not give up. We are counting on you.
PLEASE EXPOSE OUR SCHOOLS TOO, ON BEHALF OF ALL ABUSED TEACHERS.AND
STUDENTS.
We intend to maintain a link to summaries of ARTICLES REVEALING OUR UNIONS. We welcome any articles you want us
to post on this site. Simply email the articles, summaries or URL addresses to us, with the name of
the source, date and author indicating you want them on our REVEALING UNIONS page..
Teachers: Keep your examples that reveal the true character of the union coming. NAPTA
believes that the unions are the single biggest enablers of teacher abuse by ignoring it and
thus SHINING A LIGHT ON THE TRUTH WILL
BE THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF TEACHER ABUSE AND THE END OF OUR CORRUPT EDUCATIONAL
SYSTEM.
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