Re: state codes of professional ethics

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What about states like VA which do not allow teachers to unionize and in 
which, therefore, NEA affiliates seem never to take nor encourage such actions for 
fear teachers will be fired? 
(At least, that's the response some of us have always gotten in response to 
questions/suggestions involving resistance to mandates to teach crappy 
standards and give crappy,high-stakes tests).
Roxie

In a message dated 11/28/06 9:17:47 AM, susano@gmavt.net writes:


> When I heard Dick Allington's plan at the NCTE convention in Nashville 
> about  using state codes of professional ethics to take back our
> profession, I knew it was brilliant. Having read the NY Code, I now know
> it is beyond brilliant. Take a look.
> 
> http://susanohanian.org/show_nclb_outrages.html?id=2445
> 
> Dick suggestions that teachers should respond to unprofessional mandates
> with: "Tell me in writing I must violate  the state code of professional
> ethics."
> 
> I hope all teachers will look up their own state codes.  I hope they
> will force the unions to uphold these codes.
> 
> Susan Ohanian
> 
> 
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