The Internet ad displayed above, produced by the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy, reached 12,000 Virginia teachers. The return on the modest investment has been impressive. Says Co-President Chris Braunlich: “Inquiries about alternative educator associations are pouring in. Some have already cancelled their union membership (taking $700 in annual dues with them).”
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Countering the VEA… on a Shoestring Budget
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13 responses to “Countering the VEA… on a Shoestring Budget”
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Ugh. When the video ends, the next thing that pops up is my 2021 interview with Michael Shellenberger, and the frozen image has me with a mouth open to catch flies…
Hey, competition is good. The main reason for VEA membership before the days of real unionization was the liability insurance, which was always something you could get elsewhere. Once VEA is ensconced as the bargaining unit other factors will come into play, although the motive to not belong may also grow.
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What it shows at the end of videos is based on what you’ve viewed before. It’s one of those “you might also like” algorithms. That it shows you to you must slamdunk the narcissism conditionals.
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What did it show you? 🙂
As I recall, the video Braunlich put together was showing only a few hundred views, and it isn’t new. But I know it was not just posted to YouTube but also used in other ways. Still, not much penetration.
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Well, I won’t say. Polite company and all that rot. But I’m sure beyond all doubt that it’s more entertaining than what it showed you.
Here, broaden your world…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCyzdD0vYOw&t=1s-
Not the worst idea I’ve heard today…
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Oops. Forgot this. 😉
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Oops. Forgot this. 😉
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It showed me you.
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Elite capture/regulatory capture is a real thing.
The NAIS accreditation pushes woke ideology on the “elite” private schools. NAIS accreditation used to stand for you were an elite private school. Now I think it is the opposite.
Look at all the Medical Orgs, which knew bucking the line on the Covid jabjabjab+ would be death, and the few that publicly expressed concern were always labeled “according to the conservative/far right…”
I was in the ABA …for the insurance….until I couldn’t handle the judge politics, and it has only gotten exponentially worse.
Many State Bars are ruined – the fact that there is a Project 65 filing Bar complaints against lawyers who represented Trump, and they even get heard is outrageous. What happened to Atticus Finch? John Adams and the British soldiers? I think any lawyer involved in Project 65 should be disbarred, along with any lawyers on the Bar adjudicatory committees who do not immediately dismiss the Soviet Bar complaints.-
Regulatory capture is real. The FCC, for example, has been captured by AT&T, Verizon, Lumen and Frontier. Despite virtually the rest of the telecom industry having moved to Internet Protocol interconnection, these incumbent carriers still use 1980s technology (Time Division Multiplex – TDM) to interconnect with competitors for many services. The Bigs’ motivation, those networks are largely, if not completely, depreciated. They produce revenue with no capital costs.
Not only does this increase costs for competitors, but it also does not permit easy verification of spoofed telephone numbers used in fraudulent robocalls. It matters not whether the Commissioner is a Repubican or a Democrat, they give the Bigs a pass.
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I did not know that…but it makes sense! Thanks
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I spent about 13,000 dollars on the LEA, VEA, NEA during my time in Loudoun. What a waste that was! Only on rare occasions did they represent issues that mattered to me. LEA was obsessed with front loading salary gains to the new teachers. Those of us hired in the 1990s were always forgotten and saw the least in improvements to pay. Like Mr. H says, the insurance was the only thing that kept me in.
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My wife quit years ago when in Roanoke County the electioneering (with arm twisting) got way out of hand. Don’t think she ever joined in Chesterfield.
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