It's called "hyperbole," folks. You know, "A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect." They must not teach the literary elements in schools anymore.
I'll admit, I have little respect for the NEA when I consider how hostile they are to homeschooling or any other form of educational freedom, and how they spend their members' dues on left-wing causes having little to do with the education of our children. Then again, I'm not a big fan of No Child Left Behind (or whatever it's called) because I don't feel it is the federal government's responsibility to see that our children are educated. It's OUR responsibility as parents 1) to educate our children and 2) to hold schools and school officials accountable insofar as we delegate that responsibility to them. But we have become more like sheep than shepherds. Education bureaucrats have gotten too big for their pants as a result, believing education and child welfare are solely the state's oversight. And the NEA is in cahoots with 'em.
So they can stand a little tweaking, IMHO.
